C273 WGU - Intro to Sociology Practice
Exam Questions 100% Well Answered.
Primary group - Answer small group characterized by intimate, long-term, face-to-face association and
cooperation.
secondary group - Answer a large and impersonal social group whose members pursue a specific goal
or activity
In-Group - Answer a group toward which one feels loyalty
Out-Group - Answer a group toward which one feels antagonism
Dyad - Answer group of two
Which social theorist was the first to analyze bureaucracies as powerful forms of social organization that
are concerned with the "bottom line"? - Answer Max Weber
Role Strain - Answer Conflict someone feels within a role
Suppose that you are exceptionally well prepared for a particular class assignment. Although the
instructor asks an unusually difficult question, you find yourself knowing the answer when no one else
does. If you want to raise your hand, yet don't want to make your fellow students look bad, you will
experience role strain.
____________ was interested in how societies manage to create social integration —their members
united by shared values and other social bonds. He found the answer in what he called mechanical
solidarity. - Answer Sociologist Emile Durkheim
mechanical solidarity - Answer Durkheim's term for the unity (a shared consciousness) that people feel
as a result of performing the same or similar tasks
, division of labor - Answer the splitting of a group's or a society's tasks into specialties
organic solidarity - Answer Durkheim's term for the interdependence that results from the division of
labor; as part of the same unit, we all depend on others to fulfill their jobs
Which type of influence could convince people to participate in horrible acts according to Milgram's
research? - Answer Authority
What is the position conflict theorists have regarding deviance? - Answer Deviant behavior is defined
by those with power
Deviance - Answer violation of the norms
How is deviance culturally relative? - Answer Applies to crimes, sexuality and capitalism
Biosocial perspective on deviance - Answer Explained deviance by looking within individuals. Assume
genetic predispositions lead people to bad behavior.
Psychological perspective on deviance - Answer Abnormalities within an individual. Personality
disorder. Subconscious motives drive people to deviance.
Sociological perspective on deviance - Answer Look at factors outside of the individual. Look for social
influences that "recruit people" to break the norms. To explain deviance, they apply symbolic
interactionalism, functionalism and conflict theory.
Three Sociological Perspectives on Deviance - Answer Differential association theory
Control Theory
Labeling Theory
Differential association theory - Answer theory that individuals learn deviance in proportion to number
of deviant acts they are exposed to
Exam Questions 100% Well Answered.
Primary group - Answer small group characterized by intimate, long-term, face-to-face association and
cooperation.
secondary group - Answer a large and impersonal social group whose members pursue a specific goal
or activity
In-Group - Answer a group toward which one feels loyalty
Out-Group - Answer a group toward which one feels antagonism
Dyad - Answer group of two
Which social theorist was the first to analyze bureaucracies as powerful forms of social organization that
are concerned with the "bottom line"? - Answer Max Weber
Role Strain - Answer Conflict someone feels within a role
Suppose that you are exceptionally well prepared for a particular class assignment. Although the
instructor asks an unusually difficult question, you find yourself knowing the answer when no one else
does. If you want to raise your hand, yet don't want to make your fellow students look bad, you will
experience role strain.
____________ was interested in how societies manage to create social integration —their members
united by shared values and other social bonds. He found the answer in what he called mechanical
solidarity. - Answer Sociologist Emile Durkheim
mechanical solidarity - Answer Durkheim's term for the unity (a shared consciousness) that people feel
as a result of performing the same or similar tasks
, division of labor - Answer the splitting of a group's or a society's tasks into specialties
organic solidarity - Answer Durkheim's term for the interdependence that results from the division of
labor; as part of the same unit, we all depend on others to fulfill their jobs
Which type of influence could convince people to participate in horrible acts according to Milgram's
research? - Answer Authority
What is the position conflict theorists have regarding deviance? - Answer Deviant behavior is defined
by those with power
Deviance - Answer violation of the norms
How is deviance culturally relative? - Answer Applies to crimes, sexuality and capitalism
Biosocial perspective on deviance - Answer Explained deviance by looking within individuals. Assume
genetic predispositions lead people to bad behavior.
Psychological perspective on deviance - Answer Abnormalities within an individual. Personality
disorder. Subconscious motives drive people to deviance.
Sociological perspective on deviance - Answer Look at factors outside of the individual. Look for social
influences that "recruit people" to break the norms. To explain deviance, they apply symbolic
interactionalism, functionalism and conflict theory.
Three Sociological Perspectives on Deviance - Answer Differential association theory
Control Theory
Labeling Theory
Differential association theory - Answer theory that individuals learn deviance in proportion to number
of deviant acts they are exposed to
