SOC 356 Final Study Guide comprehensive Questions
and Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
What is the sociological Imagination?
Correct Answer: The ability to see and understand the interrelationship of personal
troubles and experiences with larger social problems and changes
Question 2.
What is a theory?
Correct Answer: A theory is a statement that has not been tested
Question 3.
What is social stratification?
Correct Answer: Characteristic of society. A system by which a society ranks
categories of people in a hierarchy - by wealth, power, prestige.
Question 4.
What is sociology?
Correct Answer: the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human
society.
Question 5.
What is ethnocentrism?
Correct Answer: evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating
in the standards and customs of one's own culture.
Question 6.
What is intersectionality?
Correct Answer: It is the study of overlapping or intersecting social identities and
related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination.
Question 7.
What is Karl Marx's theories emphasize?
Correct Answer:
, Question 8.
What is a social construction?
Correct Answer: Views of reality that are culturally created and passed on through
socialization and social interaction
Question 9.
What is conflict theory?
Correct Answer: focus on power and argue that patriarchal capitalists benefit through
systems that subordinate women.
Question 10.
What is functionalist theory?
Correct Answer: focuses on how human behaviour is governed by social structures
that are based mainly on shared values and that contribute to social stability
Question 11.
What is the conservative thesis?
Correct Answer: INEQUALITY is part of the natural or divine order of things; it is
necessary and beneficial
Question 12.
What is the radical antithesis?
Correct Answer: EQUALITY is the natural or divine order of things; it is unnatural and
socially constructed and must be abolished or greatly re- duced
Question 13.
What is prestige?
Correct Answer: Social honor and marks of distinction, respect, and recognition.
Question 14.
What is social mobility?
Correct Answer: Moving from one place in a stratification system to another.
Question 15.
What is meritocracy?
Correct Answer: social position achieved solely based on personal ability and
achievement
and Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
What is the sociological Imagination?
Correct Answer: The ability to see and understand the interrelationship of personal
troubles and experiences with larger social problems and changes
Question 2.
What is a theory?
Correct Answer: A theory is a statement that has not been tested
Question 3.
What is social stratification?
Correct Answer: Characteristic of society. A system by which a society ranks
categories of people in a hierarchy - by wealth, power, prestige.
Question 4.
What is sociology?
Correct Answer: the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human
society.
Question 5.
What is ethnocentrism?
Correct Answer: evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating
in the standards and customs of one's own culture.
Question 6.
What is intersectionality?
Correct Answer: It is the study of overlapping or intersecting social identities and
related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination.
Question 7.
What is Karl Marx's theories emphasize?
Correct Answer:
, Question 8.
What is a social construction?
Correct Answer: Views of reality that are culturally created and passed on through
socialization and social interaction
Question 9.
What is conflict theory?
Correct Answer: focus on power and argue that patriarchal capitalists benefit through
systems that subordinate women.
Question 10.
What is functionalist theory?
Correct Answer: focuses on how human behaviour is governed by social structures
that are based mainly on shared values and that contribute to social stability
Question 11.
What is the conservative thesis?
Correct Answer: INEQUALITY is part of the natural or divine order of things; it is
necessary and beneficial
Question 12.
What is the radical antithesis?
Correct Answer: EQUALITY is the natural or divine order of things; it is unnatural and
socially constructed and must be abolished or greatly re- duced
Question 13.
What is prestige?
Correct Answer: Social honor and marks of distinction, respect, and recognition.
Question 14.
What is social mobility?
Correct Answer: Moving from one place in a stratification system to another.
Question 15.
What is meritocracy?
Correct Answer: social position achieved solely based on personal ability and
achievement
