WGU C273 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
PRE-ASSESSMENT COMPREHENSIVE TEST
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
⫸ sociological imagination Answer: the vivid awareness of the
relationship between personal experience and the wider society
⫸ Sociology Answer: systematic study of social life and human society.
The sociological perspective looks for the "general in the particular
⫸ Émile Durkheim Answer: one of the first sociologists to specify what
exactly is "social" about our individual actions and decisions
⫸ Social Facts (Durkheim) Answer: "types of behavior and thinking
external to the individual" which have "a compelling and coercive
power"
⫸ Auguste Comte Answer: Father of sociology, positivism
⫸ Harriet Martineau Answer: sociologist who study and promoted
feminist issues
⫸ Karl Marx Answer: Conflict is the driving force behind social change
materialist conception of history
, criticized capitalism
father of communism
⫸ Herbert Spencer Answer: did not necessarily want to improve
society; he only wanted to understand it
social Darwinism - natural selection
⫸ Mechanical Solidarity (Durkheim) Answer: connections based on the
similarity of beliefs and values
⫸ Organic Solidarity (Durkheim) Answer: social bonds among people
in modern cities who specialize in different jobs but who rely on each
other
⫸ functionalism Answer: recognition that different aspects of society
work together to form a complex whole
⫸ Positivism Answer: the application of the scientific method to the
social world
⫸ Suicide study Answer: males, protestants, and unmarried are more
likely to commit suicide, social factors underlie suicide; people with
weaker ties; more likely to commit
⫸ Harriet Martineau Answer: Brought sociology to England and
furthered it by focusing on issues in the domestic sphere
PRE-ASSESSMENT COMPREHENSIVE TEST
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
⫸ sociological imagination Answer: the vivid awareness of the
relationship between personal experience and the wider society
⫸ Sociology Answer: systematic study of social life and human society.
The sociological perspective looks for the "general in the particular
⫸ Émile Durkheim Answer: one of the first sociologists to specify what
exactly is "social" about our individual actions and decisions
⫸ Social Facts (Durkheim) Answer: "types of behavior and thinking
external to the individual" which have "a compelling and coercive
power"
⫸ Auguste Comte Answer: Father of sociology, positivism
⫸ Harriet Martineau Answer: sociologist who study and promoted
feminist issues
⫸ Karl Marx Answer: Conflict is the driving force behind social change
materialist conception of history
, criticized capitalism
father of communism
⫸ Herbert Spencer Answer: did not necessarily want to improve
society; he only wanted to understand it
social Darwinism - natural selection
⫸ Mechanical Solidarity (Durkheim) Answer: connections based on the
similarity of beliefs and values
⫸ Organic Solidarity (Durkheim) Answer: social bonds among people
in modern cities who specialize in different jobs but who rely on each
other
⫸ functionalism Answer: recognition that different aspects of society
work together to form a complex whole
⫸ Positivism Answer: the application of the scientific method to the
social world
⫸ Suicide study Answer: males, protestants, and unmarried are more
likely to commit suicide, social factors underlie suicide; people with
weaker ties; more likely to commit
⫸ Harriet Martineau Answer: Brought sociology to England and
furthered it by focusing on issues in the domestic sphere
