SOCY 1000 - McConnell - Exam 1 Test
Questions with Accurate Answers
2026 Updated.
Near Group - Answer Yablonsky described the street gang as a what?
Primary Group - Answer There are diffuse relationships in what kind of group?
Charles Horton Cooley - Answer Who first described the primary group and secondary group
ideal types?
Level of Analysis - Answer The size and scope of the things that are studied in a science is its
what?
Expressive - Answer Relationships which involve a lot of emotion are described as being
what?
Institutions - Answer What guides people as to what goals they are to pursue and how they
are to pursue them?
Ideal Type - Answer A perfect description which lists all of the characteristics of a social
phenomenon is a what?
Instrumental - Answer What term indicates that the purpose of the secondary group is
practical and goal-oriented?
Role - Answer An individual in a secondary group and in an institution will know how to act
because he or she is filling a what?
Diffuse relationship - Answer When relationships in a primary group involve many aspects of
a person's life, they are described as being what?
macrosociology - Answer What kind of sociology has higher levels of analysis?
, institution - Answer Humans do not have instincts and have developed what to direct their
action?
globalization - Answer What refers to the increasing liquidity of things, people, and
information around the world?
microsociology - Answer A study of a group of teenage boys who hang out on the street
corner every evening would be what kind of sociology?
TRUE - Answer T/F
Complete examples of ideal types are rarely found in the real world.
TRUE - Answer T/F
A role gives a person a social identity.
FALSE: Kurds were in 6 different countries - Answer T/F
A society is the same thing as a nation-state.
FALSE:
Lewis Yablonsky observed that the street gang is a NEAR group. - Answer T/F
Lewis Yablonsky observed that the street gang is an ideal-typical group
TRUE - Answer T/F
People set up their lives in much the same way because of institutions.
FALSE:
An institution is abstract, organizations are concrete. - Answer T/F
An institution and an organization are the same thing.
FALSE:
Globalization is the highest level of analysis in sociology. - Answer T/F
Society is the highest level of analysis in sociology.
Questions with Accurate Answers
2026 Updated.
Near Group - Answer Yablonsky described the street gang as a what?
Primary Group - Answer There are diffuse relationships in what kind of group?
Charles Horton Cooley - Answer Who first described the primary group and secondary group
ideal types?
Level of Analysis - Answer The size and scope of the things that are studied in a science is its
what?
Expressive - Answer Relationships which involve a lot of emotion are described as being
what?
Institutions - Answer What guides people as to what goals they are to pursue and how they
are to pursue them?
Ideal Type - Answer A perfect description which lists all of the characteristics of a social
phenomenon is a what?
Instrumental - Answer What term indicates that the purpose of the secondary group is
practical and goal-oriented?
Role - Answer An individual in a secondary group and in an institution will know how to act
because he or she is filling a what?
Diffuse relationship - Answer When relationships in a primary group involve many aspects of
a person's life, they are described as being what?
macrosociology - Answer What kind of sociology has higher levels of analysis?
, institution - Answer Humans do not have instincts and have developed what to direct their
action?
globalization - Answer What refers to the increasing liquidity of things, people, and
information around the world?
microsociology - Answer A study of a group of teenage boys who hang out on the street
corner every evening would be what kind of sociology?
TRUE - Answer T/F
Complete examples of ideal types are rarely found in the real world.
TRUE - Answer T/F
A role gives a person a social identity.
FALSE: Kurds were in 6 different countries - Answer T/F
A society is the same thing as a nation-state.
FALSE:
Lewis Yablonsky observed that the street gang is a NEAR group. - Answer T/F
Lewis Yablonsky observed that the street gang is an ideal-typical group
TRUE - Answer T/F
People set up their lives in much the same way because of institutions.
FALSE:
An institution is abstract, organizations are concrete. - Answer T/F
An institution and an organization are the same thing.
FALSE:
Globalization is the highest level of analysis in sociology. - Answer T/F
Society is the highest level of analysis in sociology.
