SOCIOLOGY FINAL STRAIGHTERLINE ACTUAL
TEST QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Achieved status is a social position.
Answer: That individuals secure on the basis of choice and
competition
◉ A subculture is.
Answer: A group whose members participate in the main culture of
a society, while simultaneously sharing a number of unique values,
norms, traditions, and lifestyles
◉ Any violation of norms, whether good or bad is called.
Answer: Deviance
◉ A condition in which members of a society have different amounts
of wealth, prestige, or power is called.
Answer: Social inequality
◉ Some elements of our society are socially constructed such as the
social institutions, formal organizations, and bureaucracies. Which
of the following is not a social construction?.
Answer: Ethnic groups
,Gender groups
Racial groups
All of the above are social constructions
◉ A society is.
Answer: A group of people who live within the same territory and
share a common culture
◉ Sociologists such as George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, and
Charles Horton Cooley believed that the development of the self -
what makes us unique - is a result of.
Answer: Our interaction with others
◉ If a person refuses to hire members of a particular ethnic group
not because of a personal dislike of that ethnic group, but because he
or she fear business clients will go elsewhere, this is.
Answer: Discrimination without prejudice
◉ Mores are.
Answer: Norms to which people attach a good deal of importance
and expect strict conformity
◉ Which of the following is NOT, by sociologists, regarded as a
characteristic of a minority group?.
, Answer: There are fewer of them than there are members of the
dominant group
◉ Ethnocentrism refers to.
Answer: Belief that one's culture is "the best"; therefore, will tend to
judge the behaviors of other groups by the standards of one's own
culture
◉ Socialization is the process.
Answer: Of social interaction by which people acquire the
knowledge, values, and behaviors essential for effective
participation in society.
◉ A key element in sociological imagination is the ability to view
one's society.
Answer: As an outsider
◉ Which term is used to refer to the principle instruments/means
whereby the essential tasks (functional prerequisites) of living are
organized, directed, and executed?.
Answer: Social institutions
◉ A proposition that can be tested to determine its validity is known
as a.
TEST QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Achieved status is a social position.
Answer: That individuals secure on the basis of choice and
competition
◉ A subculture is.
Answer: A group whose members participate in the main culture of
a society, while simultaneously sharing a number of unique values,
norms, traditions, and lifestyles
◉ Any violation of norms, whether good or bad is called.
Answer: Deviance
◉ A condition in which members of a society have different amounts
of wealth, prestige, or power is called.
Answer: Social inequality
◉ Some elements of our society are socially constructed such as the
social institutions, formal organizations, and bureaucracies. Which
of the following is not a social construction?.
Answer: Ethnic groups
,Gender groups
Racial groups
All of the above are social constructions
◉ A society is.
Answer: A group of people who live within the same territory and
share a common culture
◉ Sociologists such as George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, and
Charles Horton Cooley believed that the development of the self -
what makes us unique - is a result of.
Answer: Our interaction with others
◉ If a person refuses to hire members of a particular ethnic group
not because of a personal dislike of that ethnic group, but because he
or she fear business clients will go elsewhere, this is.
Answer: Discrimination without prejudice
◉ Mores are.
Answer: Norms to which people attach a good deal of importance
and expect strict conformity
◉ Which of the following is NOT, by sociologists, regarded as a
characteristic of a minority group?.
, Answer: There are fewer of them than there are members of the
dominant group
◉ Ethnocentrism refers to.
Answer: Belief that one's culture is "the best"; therefore, will tend to
judge the behaviors of other groups by the standards of one's own
culture
◉ Socialization is the process.
Answer: Of social interaction by which people acquire the
knowledge, values, and behaviors essential for effective
participation in society.
◉ A key element in sociological imagination is the ability to view
one's society.
Answer: As an outsider
◉ Which term is used to refer to the principle instruments/means
whereby the essential tasks (functional prerequisites) of living are
organized, directed, and executed?.
Answer: Social institutions
◉ A proposition that can be tested to determine its validity is known
as a.
