WGU C273 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT ACTUAL EXAM 2025/2026
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Max Weber .......Answer.........Bureaucracies assignments flow
down word and accountability. Flows upward. Where's the boss
delegates work and the workers complete it. There's a clear
division of labor
Iron law of Oligarchy (run by a few) .......Answer.........Believed in
voluntary organizations corporations M bureaucracies were
leaders often go distance from their members and convince them
self the only the inner circle can't be trusted to make the groups
important decisions, they're only run by a few members
,age 2 of 60
Dyad .......Answer.........A group of two members, the smallest and
most fragile of all groups example marriages and love affair
Triad .......Answer.........Tryouts are extremely unstable but are
stronger than dyads. For example a married couple with a child
Class system .......Answer.........Based on wealth and possessions
and achievement, a person's class position at birth is based on
the class of his or her parents but it allows for a certain degree
of social mobility based on individual achievements example
middle class lower-class working class
The caste system .......Answer.........A formation of social
stratification based on birth into a particular group within
cultures that maintain a cast system a person is born into the
social status with no opportunity to move beyond it
,age 3 of 60
The naturalization act of 1790 .......Answer.........White Europeans
obtain their citizenship when all white immigrants could finally
apply for citizenship
Most Doctorates awarded .......Answer.........White Americans
Functional perspective .......Answer.........The functionalist
perspective focuses on how the family contributes to the greater
society. Incest taboo helps families avoid role confusion
Dysfunctions functions a rise in what type of family
.......Answer.........Nuclear - Fewer people to support photo ball to
emotional overload and abuse harmful isolation from the
extended family
Auguste Conte .......Answer.........Suggested we apply scientific
method to social world, which is known as Positivism
, age 4 of 60
Viewed society as a living organism, similar to an animals body
- must function together to function smoothly. (functional analysis)
Herbert Spencer .......Answer.........*Called 2nd founder of
sociology
*disagreed with Conte, believed sociologists should not guide
social reform
*societies are evolving from lower to higher form
*society's most capable and intelligent members service - the
less capable die out
*fittest members produce a more advanced society "The survival
of the fittest" or "Social Darwinism" (credited to Darwin because
he applied it to organisms.