Sociology Final Jersey College
Questions and Correct Answers
2025/2026 Updated.
looking-glass self - Answer Observed by Charles Horton Cooley.
A self-image based on how we think others see us.
Urbanization - Answer Conflict theory suggested by Karl Marx.
People’s movement from rural to urban areas.
Assimilation - Answer conforming to the dominant group's culture, adopting its language
and values, and intermarrying with that group.
Values - Answer the standards by which people define what is good or bad, moral or
immoral, proper or improper, desirable or undesirable, beautiful or ugly.
Mores - Answer norms that people consider very important because they maintain moral
and ethical behavior.
Norms - Answer specific rules of right and wrong behavior.
climate change - Answer a change in overall temperatures and weather conditions over time.
global warming - Answer increase in the average temperature of earths atmosphere.
Microsociology - Answer examines the patterns of individuals social interaction in specific
settings.
Macrosociology - Answer examines the large-scale patterns and processes that characterize
society as a whole.
Discrimination - Answer behavior that treats people unequally because of some
characteristic.
, institutional discrimination - Answer unequal treatment because of a society's everyday
laws, policies, practices, and customs.
sex - Answer the biological characteristics with which we are born.
gender - Answer learned attitudes and behaviors that characterize women and men.
Intersexual - Answer people whose sex at birth isn't clearly either male or female.
sexual identity - Answer an awareness of ourselves as male or female and how we express
our sexual values, attitudes, and feelings.
sexual orientation - Answer a preference for sexual partners of the same sex, of the opposite
sex, of both sexes, or neither sex.
homosexuals - Answer those who are sexually attracted to people of the same sex.
heterosexuals - Answer those who are sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.
Bisexuals - Answer those who are sexually attracted to more than one gender.
asexuals - Answer those who lack any interest in or desire for sex.
gender identity - Answer a perception of oneself as either masculine or feminine.
Transgender - Answer peoples whose gender identity and behavior don't correspond with
their birth sex.
gender expression - Answer how a person communicates gender identity to others.
gender roles - Answer characteristics, attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that society expects
of females and males.
Questions and Correct Answers
2025/2026 Updated.
looking-glass self - Answer Observed by Charles Horton Cooley.
A self-image based on how we think others see us.
Urbanization - Answer Conflict theory suggested by Karl Marx.
People’s movement from rural to urban areas.
Assimilation - Answer conforming to the dominant group's culture, adopting its language
and values, and intermarrying with that group.
Values - Answer the standards by which people define what is good or bad, moral or
immoral, proper or improper, desirable or undesirable, beautiful or ugly.
Mores - Answer norms that people consider very important because they maintain moral
and ethical behavior.
Norms - Answer specific rules of right and wrong behavior.
climate change - Answer a change in overall temperatures and weather conditions over time.
global warming - Answer increase in the average temperature of earths atmosphere.
Microsociology - Answer examines the patterns of individuals social interaction in specific
settings.
Macrosociology - Answer examines the large-scale patterns and processes that characterize
society as a whole.
Discrimination - Answer behavior that treats people unequally because of some
characteristic.
, institutional discrimination - Answer unequal treatment because of a society's everyday
laws, policies, practices, and customs.
sex - Answer the biological characteristics with which we are born.
gender - Answer learned attitudes and behaviors that characterize women and men.
Intersexual - Answer people whose sex at birth isn't clearly either male or female.
sexual identity - Answer an awareness of ourselves as male or female and how we express
our sexual values, attitudes, and feelings.
sexual orientation - Answer a preference for sexual partners of the same sex, of the opposite
sex, of both sexes, or neither sex.
homosexuals - Answer those who are sexually attracted to people of the same sex.
heterosexuals - Answer those who are sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.
Bisexuals - Answer those who are sexually attracted to more than one gender.
asexuals - Answer those who lack any interest in or desire for sex.
gender identity - Answer a perception of oneself as either masculine or feminine.
Transgender - Answer peoples whose gender identity and behavior don't correspond with
their birth sex.
gender expression - Answer how a person communicates gender identity to others.
gender roles - Answer characteristics, attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that society expects
of females and males.
