GCU SOC102 Final Exam ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Middle Class Flight starts with Industrialization and ends with gentrification. However,
economically depressed area are established during the process. Thus, middle-class flight refers
to: - Correct answers✔the economic transfer of wealth from lower-class to middle-class
In dependency theory of globalization, the core nations are dependent on the non-core nations for
cheap labor. - Correct answers✔True
Sociology is the ____ ____ of human ____ _____ and association and how it _____ over time. -
Correct answers✔scientific study, social behavior, changes
Race, ethnicity, age, and sex are a person's ____ status. - Correct answers✔ascribed
In Larkin's Stratification diagram, organizing principles of stratification in the U.S. are listed.
They are: - Correct answers✔gender, race, and class
Which theoretical perspective indicates that inequality is a natural consequences of the
organizing process of stratification and that the inequality encourages people to be industrious? -
Correct answers✔structural functionalism
Cody is a member of the Chicago Latin Kings. The other gangs in his territory are the Mexican
Mafia and P-Stone Nation. Cody feels very antagonistic towards the MM and P-Stone. For Cody,
what type of group do these two rival gangs represent? - Correct answers✔out-groups
Sociologist David Popenoe indicates that there are four general types of deviance. Indicate one of
Popenoe's types of deviance. - Correct answers✔aberrant
, Sociologist Robert Merton's Strain Theory indicates five modes of adaptation: Conformity,
Ritualism, Retreatism, and Rebellion. Select the mode of adaptation not given. - Correct
answers✔innovation
Based on his famous theory explaining the cause of deviance and crime, what would Edwin
Sutherland consider as the underlying cause of deviance? - Correct answers✔group association
Which of following theoretical perspectives would view television and movies as a form of big
business in which profits are more important than the quality of the product of the individual;
and which is used to keep those in power in place? - Correct answers✔conflict
Which sociological perspective stresses that society is a whole unit, made up of interrelated parts
that work together harmoniously? - Correct answers✔structural functional analysis
Which of the following is NOT part of C. Wright Mills paradigms? - Correct answers✔total
institutions
Which of the following is not an agent of socialization? - Correct answers✔nature
Roles are socially defined expectations that a person in a given ____ follows. - Correct
answers✔status
Which of the following is not a cultural universal? - Correct answers✔family system
Many African Americans feel the flag for the Confederate States of America, "the stars and bars,"
is a sign of racial hatred. State rights advocates view the same flag as being "heritage, not
hatred." Such a difference of opinion over the exact same material object is an illustration of
which sociological perspective? - Correct answers✔symbolic interactionism
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Middle Class Flight starts with Industrialization and ends with gentrification. However,
economically depressed area are established during the process. Thus, middle-class flight refers
to: - Correct answers✔the economic transfer of wealth from lower-class to middle-class
In dependency theory of globalization, the core nations are dependent on the non-core nations for
cheap labor. - Correct answers✔True
Sociology is the ____ ____ of human ____ _____ and association and how it _____ over time. -
Correct answers✔scientific study, social behavior, changes
Race, ethnicity, age, and sex are a person's ____ status. - Correct answers✔ascribed
In Larkin's Stratification diagram, organizing principles of stratification in the U.S. are listed.
They are: - Correct answers✔gender, race, and class
Which theoretical perspective indicates that inequality is a natural consequences of the
organizing process of stratification and that the inequality encourages people to be industrious? -
Correct answers✔structural functionalism
Cody is a member of the Chicago Latin Kings. The other gangs in his territory are the Mexican
Mafia and P-Stone Nation. Cody feels very antagonistic towards the MM and P-Stone. For Cody,
what type of group do these two rival gangs represent? - Correct answers✔out-groups
Sociologist David Popenoe indicates that there are four general types of deviance. Indicate one of
Popenoe's types of deviance. - Correct answers✔aberrant
, Sociologist Robert Merton's Strain Theory indicates five modes of adaptation: Conformity,
Ritualism, Retreatism, and Rebellion. Select the mode of adaptation not given. - Correct
answers✔innovation
Based on his famous theory explaining the cause of deviance and crime, what would Edwin
Sutherland consider as the underlying cause of deviance? - Correct answers✔group association
Which of following theoretical perspectives would view television and movies as a form of big
business in which profits are more important than the quality of the product of the individual;
and which is used to keep those in power in place? - Correct answers✔conflict
Which sociological perspective stresses that society is a whole unit, made up of interrelated parts
that work together harmoniously? - Correct answers✔structural functional analysis
Which of the following is NOT part of C. Wright Mills paradigms? - Correct answers✔total
institutions
Which of the following is not an agent of socialization? - Correct answers✔nature
Roles are socially defined expectations that a person in a given ____ follows. - Correct
answers✔status
Which of the following is not a cultural universal? - Correct answers✔family system
Many African Americans feel the flag for the Confederate States of America, "the stars and bars,"
is a sign of racial hatred. State rights advocates view the same flag as being "heritage, not
hatred." Such a difference of opinion over the exact same material object is an illustration of
which sociological perspective? - Correct answers✔symbolic interactionism
