WGU ACADEMY -INTRO TO SOCIOLOGY MIDTERM EXAM 3&4
LATEST EXAM 2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+.
In Immanuel Wallerstein's view, the global economic system is divided
between nations that control wealth and nations from which resources are
taken. This view is referred to as
Select one:
a. neocolonialism.
b. colonialism.
c. world systems analysis.
d. the world exploitation model - ANSWER-world systems analysis
The failure of various government intelligence-gathering organizations to
detect the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, illustrates which poorly
functioning aspect of government bureaucracy?
Select one:
a. division of labor
b. hierarchy of authority
c. impersonality
d. employment based on technical qualifications - ANSWER-division of labor
Invention is the
,Select one:
a. combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously
exist.
b. process of introducing new elements into a culture.
c. process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
d. process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society
to society. - ANSWER-combination of existing cultural items into a form that
did not previously exist
Trying to understand why your roommate prefers a certain genre of music,
over others, is an example of using one's
Select one:
a. cultural capital.
b. conflict perspective.
c. double consciousness.
d. sociological imagination - ANSWER-sociological imagination
A study of divorce rates among the populations of Canada, England, the U.S.,
and France, is an example of
Select one:
a. alienation.
b. anomie.
c. microsociology.
d. macrosociology - ANSWER-macrosociology
,Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said, "The history of all hitherto existing
society is the history of class struggles..... The have nothing to lose
but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL
COUNTRIES, UNITE!"
Select one:
a. bourgeoisie
b. proletarians
c. Vulcans
d. middle classes - ANSWER-proletarians
Émile Durkheim's explanation of suicide was scientific because he
Select one:
a. developed conclusions based on a systematic examination of data. b.
carefully studied the personalities of hundreds of suicide victims.
c. worked in a university setting.
d. divided suicide into four distinctive categories. - ANSWER-developed
conclusions based on a systematic examination of data.
In Karl Marx's analysis, society was fundamentally divided between
Select one:
a. separate genders that clash in pursuit of their own interests.
b. economic classes that clash in pursuit of their own class interests. c.
different races that clash in pursuit of their own interests.
, d. the religious and the nonreligious who clash in pursuit of their own
interests - ANSWER-economic classes that clash in pursuit of their own class
interests
Which of the following statements is true?
Select one:
a. Clinical sociologists take direct responsibility for implementing their ideas.
b. There are no established methods for educating clinical sociologists.
c. Applied and clinical sociology are the same.
d. Clinical sociology has existed for only the last 20 years - ANSWER-Clinical
sociologists take direct responsibility for implementing their ideas.
Which of the following relationships best shows causal logic?
Select one:
a. The time spent reviewing for a test may be directly related to, or produce
a greater likelihood of getting a high score.
b. Being less integrated into society may be directly related to, or produce a
lower likelihood of, suicide.
c. The time spent tending to one's vegetable garden may be directly related
to, or produce a greater likelihood of overgrowth.
d. Being more involved in extracurricular activities may be directly related to,
or produce a lower likelihood of, college admission. - ANSWER-The time
spent reviewing for a test may be directly related to, or produce a greater
likelihood of getting a high score.
LATEST EXAM 2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+.
In Immanuel Wallerstein's view, the global economic system is divided
between nations that control wealth and nations from which resources are
taken. This view is referred to as
Select one:
a. neocolonialism.
b. colonialism.
c. world systems analysis.
d. the world exploitation model - ANSWER-world systems analysis
The failure of various government intelligence-gathering organizations to
detect the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, illustrates which poorly
functioning aspect of government bureaucracy?
Select one:
a. division of labor
b. hierarchy of authority
c. impersonality
d. employment based on technical qualifications - ANSWER-division of labor
Invention is the
,Select one:
a. combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously
exist.
b. process of introducing new elements into a culture.
c. process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
d. process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society
to society. - ANSWER-combination of existing cultural items into a form that
did not previously exist
Trying to understand why your roommate prefers a certain genre of music,
over others, is an example of using one's
Select one:
a. cultural capital.
b. conflict perspective.
c. double consciousness.
d. sociological imagination - ANSWER-sociological imagination
A study of divorce rates among the populations of Canada, England, the U.S.,
and France, is an example of
Select one:
a. alienation.
b. anomie.
c. microsociology.
d. macrosociology - ANSWER-macrosociology
,Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said, "The history of all hitherto existing
society is the history of class struggles..... The have nothing to lose
but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL
COUNTRIES, UNITE!"
Select one:
a. bourgeoisie
b. proletarians
c. Vulcans
d. middle classes - ANSWER-proletarians
Émile Durkheim's explanation of suicide was scientific because he
Select one:
a. developed conclusions based on a systematic examination of data. b.
carefully studied the personalities of hundreds of suicide victims.
c. worked in a university setting.
d. divided suicide into four distinctive categories. - ANSWER-developed
conclusions based on a systematic examination of data.
In Karl Marx's analysis, society was fundamentally divided between
Select one:
a. separate genders that clash in pursuit of their own interests.
b. economic classes that clash in pursuit of their own class interests. c.
different races that clash in pursuit of their own interests.
, d. the religious and the nonreligious who clash in pursuit of their own
interests - ANSWER-economic classes that clash in pursuit of their own class
interests
Which of the following statements is true?
Select one:
a. Clinical sociologists take direct responsibility for implementing their ideas.
b. There are no established methods for educating clinical sociologists.
c. Applied and clinical sociology are the same.
d. Clinical sociology has existed for only the last 20 years - ANSWER-Clinical
sociologists take direct responsibility for implementing their ideas.
Which of the following relationships best shows causal logic?
Select one:
a. The time spent reviewing for a test may be directly related to, or produce
a greater likelihood of getting a high score.
b. Being less integrated into society may be directly related to, or produce a
lower likelihood of, suicide.
c. The time spent tending to one's vegetable garden may be directly related
to, or produce a greater likelihood of overgrowth.
d. Being more involved in extracurricular activities may be directly related to,
or produce a lower likelihood of, college admission. - ANSWER-The time
spent reviewing for a test may be directly related to, or produce a greater
likelihood of getting a high score.
