SOCIOLOGY 1000 FINAL EXAM BREKHUS MIZZOU EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Lifestyler - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Gay as a noun. 100% gay 100% of the time. Live in gay enclaves and
identify gay as the most important aspect of their life.
Commuter - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Travel to gay enclaves. Gay as a ver. has two social groups- their
typically straight, suburb friends, and they gay typically city friends. Can't tell they're gay, unless they're
in the enclave. 100% gay, 15% of the time.
Integrator - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Gay as an adjective. It's part of who they are, but it doesn't define
them. 15% gay 100% of the time. usually have nothing to do with gay enclaves.
Chambliss and success - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅QUALITATIVE. better technique is more important in
achieving excellence than time spent practicing. Practicing the little things right and perfect them,
developing new techniques, or practicing against people who are better than you.
Gladwell and success - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅QUANTITATIVE. 10,000 hour rule, practicing as much as
possible and dedicating your life to something to achieve success.
What do Gladwell and Chambliss agree on? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Two things.
1) right place at the right time is significant- being born at the beginning of the year benefits hockey
players because they have more time to develop and therefore be better than their younger peers. Bill
Gates being in college during the technological breakthrough allowed him to gain an interest in
computers when he had enough free time to play around with them.
2) being born with natural talent is insignificant.
Rampage School Shooting reading - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅School shooters typically characterized by:
1) they feel like their masculinity is being challenged, and as such respond with violence.
2) they feel humiliated by a certain part of society, and also feel they are superior than them.
3) they feel they are owed a certain amount of entitlement and privilege by society, and when combined
with their feelings of pain from society, they respond with violence.
, 4) typically wealthier, white males, carrying highly destructive weapons, firing seemingly at random
(there are some targets but many random victims).
5) almost always end in suicide.
Suicide and gender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Fatal suicide: men who successfully commit suicide are
viewed more favorably than women who successfully commit suicide.
Non-fatal suicide: Women are often given support when they attempt suicide, while men are ostracized
and considered feminine.
Women attempt suicide more, but have much higher rates of non-fatal suicide.
Men attempt suicide less but are much more successful.
Gender, Class and Terrorism reading - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Terrorists are typically:
1) educated through high school, sometimes college
2) not poor, but middle class facing downward mobility and economic uncertainty.
3) sons of men who work in industries in decline that are usually passed down the generations, the
terrorists then fear they can't work where they expected to work.
4) from general privilege, but they are losing it.
Terrorists are angry at their government due to their decline in privilege, and they typically take it out on
"others"- women, gays, minorities, and immigrants, because these "others" compete with them for the
jobs they feel entitled to.
By not having a job, and by basically being a disappointment, they feel emasculated and feminized.
Terrorist organizations, or supremacy groups provide them with their sense of masculinity.
Science texts and the Egg and the Sperm - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Science texts romanticize the
insemination process by portraying the sperm personally and as a "rescuer" of the egg, and the egg as a
"damsel in distress". In reality, the egg is the lock, and the sperm is the key, they are codependent. They
also suggest female reproductive organs are wasteful, when, taking into consideration the rate of
menstruation and pregnancy, women waste around 400 eggs in their lifetime, while men waste trillions
of sperm. They also portray sperm as active and the egg as inactive, which perpetuates societal
stereotypes of men and women on the cellular level. Note, sperm are dumb, they swim around crazily,
as opposed to the steadfast description given by science texts.
Army and racial integration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rank is so highly valued in the Army, that race is
almost insignificant. One is promoted solely based on their skills, and this is reinforced by the idea that
AND ANSWERS
Lifestyler - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Gay as a noun. 100% gay 100% of the time. Live in gay enclaves and
identify gay as the most important aspect of their life.
Commuter - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Travel to gay enclaves. Gay as a ver. has two social groups- their
typically straight, suburb friends, and they gay typically city friends. Can't tell they're gay, unless they're
in the enclave. 100% gay, 15% of the time.
Integrator - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Gay as an adjective. It's part of who they are, but it doesn't define
them. 15% gay 100% of the time. usually have nothing to do with gay enclaves.
Chambliss and success - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅QUALITATIVE. better technique is more important in
achieving excellence than time spent practicing. Practicing the little things right and perfect them,
developing new techniques, or practicing against people who are better than you.
Gladwell and success - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅QUANTITATIVE. 10,000 hour rule, practicing as much as
possible and dedicating your life to something to achieve success.
What do Gladwell and Chambliss agree on? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Two things.
1) right place at the right time is significant- being born at the beginning of the year benefits hockey
players because they have more time to develop and therefore be better than their younger peers. Bill
Gates being in college during the technological breakthrough allowed him to gain an interest in
computers when he had enough free time to play around with them.
2) being born with natural talent is insignificant.
Rampage School Shooting reading - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅School shooters typically characterized by:
1) they feel like their masculinity is being challenged, and as such respond with violence.
2) they feel humiliated by a certain part of society, and also feel they are superior than them.
3) they feel they are owed a certain amount of entitlement and privilege by society, and when combined
with their feelings of pain from society, they respond with violence.
, 4) typically wealthier, white males, carrying highly destructive weapons, firing seemingly at random
(there are some targets but many random victims).
5) almost always end in suicide.
Suicide and gender - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Fatal suicide: men who successfully commit suicide are
viewed more favorably than women who successfully commit suicide.
Non-fatal suicide: Women are often given support when they attempt suicide, while men are ostracized
and considered feminine.
Women attempt suicide more, but have much higher rates of non-fatal suicide.
Men attempt suicide less but are much more successful.
Gender, Class and Terrorism reading - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Terrorists are typically:
1) educated through high school, sometimes college
2) not poor, but middle class facing downward mobility and economic uncertainty.
3) sons of men who work in industries in decline that are usually passed down the generations, the
terrorists then fear they can't work where they expected to work.
4) from general privilege, but they are losing it.
Terrorists are angry at their government due to their decline in privilege, and they typically take it out on
"others"- women, gays, minorities, and immigrants, because these "others" compete with them for the
jobs they feel entitled to.
By not having a job, and by basically being a disappointment, they feel emasculated and feminized.
Terrorist organizations, or supremacy groups provide them with their sense of masculinity.
Science texts and the Egg and the Sperm - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Science texts romanticize the
insemination process by portraying the sperm personally and as a "rescuer" of the egg, and the egg as a
"damsel in distress". In reality, the egg is the lock, and the sperm is the key, they are codependent. They
also suggest female reproductive organs are wasteful, when, taking into consideration the rate of
menstruation and pregnancy, women waste around 400 eggs in their lifetime, while men waste trillions
of sperm. They also portray sperm as active and the egg as inactive, which perpetuates societal
stereotypes of men and women on the cellular level. Note, sperm are dumb, they swim around crazily,
as opposed to the steadfast description given by science texts.
Army and racial integration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rank is so highly valued in the Army, that race is
almost insignificant. One is promoted solely based on their skills, and this is reinforced by the idea that
