SOCIOLOGY 101 EXAM 1 WSU
QUESTIONS & ACTUAL CORRECT
ANSWERS PASSED 100%
Sociology - Correct Answer ✔✔ Study of people, groups, institutions, society/societies,
interactions
Mechanical Solidarity - Correct Answer ✔✔ Pre-modern society
Organic Solidarity - Correct Answer ✔✔ Modern society
Social Facts - Correct Answer ✔✔ Things like norms and values of a society that affect
an individual's behavior
Gemeinschaft - Correct Answer ✔✔ Interpersonal relationships based on emotion
(Intimate relationship) = pre modern societies
Gesellschaft - Correct Answer ✔✔ Goal driven/individualistic, impersonal = modern
societies
Rational - Correct Answer ✔✔ Calculating and goal driven = modern societies
Irrational - Correct Answer ✔✔ Not goal driven but to be experienced or appreciated for
itself
Proletariat - Correct Answer ✔✔ Lower class workers
Bourgeoisie - Correct Answer ✔✔ Those who own the means of production
Auguste Comte - Correct Answer ✔✔ Invented sociology; developed 3 stages of society
Comte's Stages of Society - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1. Theological stage: religious leaders
are the main source of knowledge and intellectual authority
2. Metaphysical stage: Philosophers are intellectual authority
3. Positive (Scientific stage): science and scientists are intellectual authority
Emile Durkheim - Correct Answer ✔✔ Argued that even a society full of individually
motived people would hold together because people need each other to survive
Functionalism - Correct Answer ✔✔ Everything in society has a purpose even conflict
has a higher purpose in finding a purpose, created by Durkheim
, Ferdinand Tonnies - Correct Answer ✔✔ Writes about how societies differ from pre
modern societies, gemeinschaft/gesellschaft
Max Weber - Correct Answer ✔✔ Inspired by Tonnies idea that people act with a variety
of motives and that the type of motive makes a different in what they do.
Rational/irrational
Karl Marx - Correct Answer ✔✔ Argues societies are shaped by the economic systems
of the production and distribution of goods that underline them
Conflict Theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ Provides a lens through which to understand
society as built on inequalities, power dynamics, and cause-effect relationships that are
not necessarily natural
Herbert Spencer - Correct Answer ✔✔ Was influenced by Darwin, societies evolve like
species. If left alone to compete, the fittest will survive and the weak won't. Used theory
in Nazi camps
Jane Addams - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1st noble prize writing about how people become
poor and their life when they are in poverty.
Sees it as a social problem
W.E.B. DuBois - Correct Answer ✔✔ Argued that society was driven by conflict, but
argued that racial differences were as important, if not more important
Urbanization - Correct Answer ✔✔ The process in which towns and cities are formed
and become larger as more and more people
Industrialization - Correct Answer ✔✔ The development of industries in a country or
region on a wide scale.
Science - Correct Answer ✔✔ The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the
systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through
observation and experiment.
Sociological Imagination - Correct Answer ✔✔ The awareness of the relationship
between personal experience and the wider society
Individualism - Correct Answer ✔✔ People purse their own ends, following their own
ideas
What people get, they deserve
People are responsible for themselves
People have free will, and free will explains individuals' behavior
Manifest Function - Correct Answer ✔✔ Overtly intended and obvious
QUESTIONS & ACTUAL CORRECT
ANSWERS PASSED 100%
Sociology - Correct Answer ✔✔ Study of people, groups, institutions, society/societies,
interactions
Mechanical Solidarity - Correct Answer ✔✔ Pre-modern society
Organic Solidarity - Correct Answer ✔✔ Modern society
Social Facts - Correct Answer ✔✔ Things like norms and values of a society that affect
an individual's behavior
Gemeinschaft - Correct Answer ✔✔ Interpersonal relationships based on emotion
(Intimate relationship) = pre modern societies
Gesellschaft - Correct Answer ✔✔ Goal driven/individualistic, impersonal = modern
societies
Rational - Correct Answer ✔✔ Calculating and goal driven = modern societies
Irrational - Correct Answer ✔✔ Not goal driven but to be experienced or appreciated for
itself
Proletariat - Correct Answer ✔✔ Lower class workers
Bourgeoisie - Correct Answer ✔✔ Those who own the means of production
Auguste Comte - Correct Answer ✔✔ Invented sociology; developed 3 stages of society
Comte's Stages of Society - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1. Theological stage: religious leaders
are the main source of knowledge and intellectual authority
2. Metaphysical stage: Philosophers are intellectual authority
3. Positive (Scientific stage): science and scientists are intellectual authority
Emile Durkheim - Correct Answer ✔✔ Argued that even a society full of individually
motived people would hold together because people need each other to survive
Functionalism - Correct Answer ✔✔ Everything in society has a purpose even conflict
has a higher purpose in finding a purpose, created by Durkheim
, Ferdinand Tonnies - Correct Answer ✔✔ Writes about how societies differ from pre
modern societies, gemeinschaft/gesellschaft
Max Weber - Correct Answer ✔✔ Inspired by Tonnies idea that people act with a variety
of motives and that the type of motive makes a different in what they do.
Rational/irrational
Karl Marx - Correct Answer ✔✔ Argues societies are shaped by the economic systems
of the production and distribution of goods that underline them
Conflict Theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ Provides a lens through which to understand
society as built on inequalities, power dynamics, and cause-effect relationships that are
not necessarily natural
Herbert Spencer - Correct Answer ✔✔ Was influenced by Darwin, societies evolve like
species. If left alone to compete, the fittest will survive and the weak won't. Used theory
in Nazi camps
Jane Addams - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1st noble prize writing about how people become
poor and their life when they are in poverty.
Sees it as a social problem
W.E.B. DuBois - Correct Answer ✔✔ Argued that society was driven by conflict, but
argued that racial differences were as important, if not more important
Urbanization - Correct Answer ✔✔ The process in which towns and cities are formed
and become larger as more and more people
Industrialization - Correct Answer ✔✔ The development of industries in a country or
region on a wide scale.
Science - Correct Answer ✔✔ The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the
systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through
observation and experiment.
Sociological Imagination - Correct Answer ✔✔ The awareness of the relationship
between personal experience and the wider society
Individualism - Correct Answer ✔✔ People purse their own ends, following their own
ideas
What people get, they deserve
People are responsible for themselves
People have free will, and free will explains individuals' behavior
Manifest Function - Correct Answer ✔✔ Overtly intended and obvious
