Intro to Sociology Final Exam (CSCC)
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Sociology - CORRECT ANSWER - the study of society
Sociological Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER - A way of taking a sociological
approach or thinking sociologically about the world
Sociological Imagination - CORRECT ANSWER - A quality of mind that allows us to
understand the relationship between our particular situation in life and what is happening at a
social level
Auguste Comte - CORRECT ANSWER - Stated that sociology needed to be treated like
any other scientific discipline.
Emile Durkheim - CORRECT ANSWER - worked to establish sociology as an important
academic discipline. Interested in social factors that bond and hold people together
Karl Marx - CORRECT ANSWER - Contributed significantly to conflict theory. Believed
that capitalism was creating social inequality between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
Bourgeoisie - CORRECT ANSWER - Those who own the means of production. I.e.
money, factories, natural resources, and land
Proletariat - CORRECT ANSWER - the workers
Max Weber - CORRECT ANSWER - Interested in how society was becoming
industrialized. He was concerned with the process of rationalization, applying logic to all human
activity
, Structural Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER - Society is viewed as an ordered system
of interrelated parts or structures which are the social institutions that make up society (family,
education, politics, the economy
Conflict theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Sees social conflict as the basis of society and
social change
Symbolic interactionism - CORRECT ANSWER - Sees interaction and meaning as central
to society and assumes that meanings are not inherent but rather are created through interaction
Feminist theory - CORRECT ANSWER - looks at both gender inequality in society and
the way that gender structures the social word and consider remedies to these inequalities
Queer theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Proposes that categories of sexual identity are
social constructs and that no sexual category is fundamentally either deviant or normal
Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER - A relationship between two variables
Causation - CORRECT ANSWER - a relationship where one variable causes another
variable to change
Spurious Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER - A relationship that seems to appear
between two variables but is actually caused by some external, or intervening, variable
Surveys - CORRECT ANSWER - Questionnaires that are administered to a sample of
respondents selected from a target population
Existing sources - CORRECT ANSWER - refer to any data that has already been collected
by earlier researchers and is available for future research
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Sociology - CORRECT ANSWER - the study of society
Sociological Perspective - CORRECT ANSWER - A way of taking a sociological
approach or thinking sociologically about the world
Sociological Imagination - CORRECT ANSWER - A quality of mind that allows us to
understand the relationship between our particular situation in life and what is happening at a
social level
Auguste Comte - CORRECT ANSWER - Stated that sociology needed to be treated like
any other scientific discipline.
Emile Durkheim - CORRECT ANSWER - worked to establish sociology as an important
academic discipline. Interested in social factors that bond and hold people together
Karl Marx - CORRECT ANSWER - Contributed significantly to conflict theory. Believed
that capitalism was creating social inequality between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
Bourgeoisie - CORRECT ANSWER - Those who own the means of production. I.e.
money, factories, natural resources, and land
Proletariat - CORRECT ANSWER - the workers
Max Weber - CORRECT ANSWER - Interested in how society was becoming
industrialized. He was concerned with the process of rationalization, applying logic to all human
activity
, Structural Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER - Society is viewed as an ordered system
of interrelated parts or structures which are the social institutions that make up society (family,
education, politics, the economy
Conflict theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Sees social conflict as the basis of society and
social change
Symbolic interactionism - CORRECT ANSWER - Sees interaction and meaning as central
to society and assumes that meanings are not inherent but rather are created through interaction
Feminist theory - CORRECT ANSWER - looks at both gender inequality in society and
the way that gender structures the social word and consider remedies to these inequalities
Queer theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Proposes that categories of sexual identity are
social constructs and that no sexual category is fundamentally either deviant or normal
Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER - A relationship between two variables
Causation - CORRECT ANSWER - a relationship where one variable causes another
variable to change
Spurious Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER - A relationship that seems to appear
between two variables but is actually caused by some external, or intervening, variable
Surveys - CORRECT ANSWER - Questionnaires that are administered to a sample of
respondents selected from a target population
Existing sources - CORRECT ANSWER - refer to any data that has already been collected
by earlier researchers and is available for future research
