Soci 1301 Exam 1 Review Featuring Chapters 1-9 Updated Actual Questions And Correct Answers

SOCI 1301 EXAM 1 REVIEW FEATURING
CHAPTERS 1-9 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What do you call a confining social setting in which an authority regulates all aspects of a person's
life?
Answer:
Total Institution

Question:
2. What is a laymen description of Total Institution?
Answer:
An all encompassing institution that re-socializes or Replacing old norms and behaviors with new
ones

Question:
3. Which sociologist thought Total Institution was unique? Erving Goffman Melvin Kohn
Answer:
Erving Goffman

Question:
4. Which sociologist thought Total Institution was an all encompassing institution that re-socializes?
Melvin Kohn Erving Goffman
Answer:
Erving Goffman

Question:
5. How does sociology define Action?
Answer:
Operating outside of social constraints

Question:
6. What term would be used to define Moving beyond what is the social constraints that your living
with OR operating outside of social constraints?
Answer:
Action

Question:
7. What is Xenophobia?
Answer:
Fear of foreigners

Question:
8. Who defined Power as Bringing about an intended outcome. Karl Marx Emile Durkheim Max
Weber Wright Mills

, Answer:
Max Weber

Question:
9. How did Max Weber define Power?
Answer:
Bringing about an intended outcome

Question:
10. Convenience, Quota, and Random: are types of what? Research Samples Theories Dreams
Answer:
Samples

Question:
11. How many sampling types were covered in Chapter 2?
Answer:
3

Question:
12. List all 3 sampling types
Answer:
Convenience Quota Random

Question:
13. How many statuses begin with the letter A and what are they?
Answer:
Achieved Ascribed

Question:
14. Which status is defined as: A position in a social system that a person attains voluntarily, to a
considerable degree, as the result of the person's own efforts.
Answer:
Achieved

Question:
15. Which status is defined as: A social position that is assigned to us from birth or that we assume
later in life, regardless of our wishes or abilities.
Answer:
Ascribed

Question:
16. How do Ascribed & Achieved status differ from each other?
Answer:
Achieved is to attain/earn. Ascribed is assigned/appointed

Question:
17. Which status is assigned or appointed? Achieved Ascribed