CSU SOC 301 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | LATEST STUDY GUIDE
2026/2027
Social Facts (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔Established manners of acting, thinking, and
feeling that come to the individual from society through socialization.
They are Factual, Observable, External, Constraining, Generalizable
Society (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔1. Group collective life and its influence on the
individual
2. Shared beliefs, values, ways of thinking and understanding of members of a group
3. A social organism with parts that function together
sui generous
It is thing that is real, a distinct form of reality
Homo Duplex (Durkheim): 2 Parts - correct answer ✔✔Dualistic concept of individuals. Each
individual has 2 consciousnesses fighting to maintain balance.
INDIVIDUAL: Born with it, self-centered, focused on egoistic desires, "centrifugal forces"
SOCIAL: What we are socialized into, Oriented to the group, altruistic, centripetal forces
***Division of Labor: How and Why Does it Change? (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔A stable
organization of tasks and roles that coordinate the behavior of individuals or groups that carry
out different but related tasks
Solidarity: Mechanical and Organic (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔The degree to which social
nature is inherited
MECHANICAL: Society asks like a machine with smaller parts. All parts similar (similarity and the
collective)
High- levels of cohesiveness, normative regulation
, ORGANIC: Social acts such as complex organism (difference, functional)
High- levels of mutual dependency, generalized culture, intermediate groups, new level of
difference
Collective Consciousness (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔The collective representations and
sentiments that guide and bind together any social group
VARIES BY 4 ELEMENTS:
1. The degree to which culture is shared
2. Amount of power the culture has over an individual's thoughts, feelings, actions
3. Degree of clarity
4. Religious vs secular content
Anomie (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔social instability and personal unrest due to a lack of
moral regulation. Social life is impossible without integration, cooperation, and moral regulation
(normlessness; isolation)
Collective Effervescence: How does it form? Purpose? (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔A
community or society may at times come together and simultaneously communicate the same
thought and participate in the same action
How? Purpose?
Religion: Elements, Purpose, Rituals (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔During modernity, one of
the institutions. Influences suicide and the superstructure of society (elaborate)
Social Integration (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔The sharing of values, attitudes, beliefs and
behavior patterns among individuals in a society; attachment to the group
Moral Regulation (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔The way society socializes individuals into
being content with certain goals and embracing certain values; social control of the group
2026/2027
Social Facts (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔Established manners of acting, thinking, and
feeling that come to the individual from society through socialization.
They are Factual, Observable, External, Constraining, Generalizable
Society (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔1. Group collective life and its influence on the
individual
2. Shared beliefs, values, ways of thinking and understanding of members of a group
3. A social organism with parts that function together
sui generous
It is thing that is real, a distinct form of reality
Homo Duplex (Durkheim): 2 Parts - correct answer ✔✔Dualistic concept of individuals. Each
individual has 2 consciousnesses fighting to maintain balance.
INDIVIDUAL: Born with it, self-centered, focused on egoistic desires, "centrifugal forces"
SOCIAL: What we are socialized into, Oriented to the group, altruistic, centripetal forces
***Division of Labor: How and Why Does it Change? (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔A stable
organization of tasks and roles that coordinate the behavior of individuals or groups that carry
out different but related tasks
Solidarity: Mechanical and Organic (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔The degree to which social
nature is inherited
MECHANICAL: Society asks like a machine with smaller parts. All parts similar (similarity and the
collective)
High- levels of cohesiveness, normative regulation
, ORGANIC: Social acts such as complex organism (difference, functional)
High- levels of mutual dependency, generalized culture, intermediate groups, new level of
difference
Collective Consciousness (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔The collective representations and
sentiments that guide and bind together any social group
VARIES BY 4 ELEMENTS:
1. The degree to which culture is shared
2. Amount of power the culture has over an individual's thoughts, feelings, actions
3. Degree of clarity
4. Religious vs secular content
Anomie (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔social instability and personal unrest due to a lack of
moral regulation. Social life is impossible without integration, cooperation, and moral regulation
(normlessness; isolation)
Collective Effervescence: How does it form? Purpose? (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔A
community or society may at times come together and simultaneously communicate the same
thought and participate in the same action
How? Purpose?
Religion: Elements, Purpose, Rituals (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔During modernity, one of
the institutions. Influences suicide and the superstructure of society (elaborate)
Social Integration (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔The sharing of values, attitudes, beliefs and
behavior patterns among individuals in a society; attachment to the group
Moral Regulation (Durkheim) - correct answer ✔✔The way society socializes individuals into
being content with certain goals and embracing certain values; social control of the group
