SYG 2000 LATEST 2026 EXAMINATION SET QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Embeddedness - ✔✔the degree to which ties are reinforced through indirect paths
within a social network
✔✔Strength of Weak Ties - ✔✔notion that relatively weak ties often turn out to be quite
valuable because they yield new information
✔✔Structural Holes - ✔✔a gap between network clusters, or even two individuals, if
those individuals (or clusters) have complementary resources
✔✔Six Degrees of Separation - ✔✔each one of us is connected to every other person
by social changes of no more than six people
✔✔Social Capital - ✔✔the information, knowledge of people, and connections that help
individuals enter, gain power in, or otherwise leverage social networks
✔✔o Formal Deviance - ✔✔same thing as crime, violation of laws enacted by society
✔✔o Informal Social Deviance - ✔✔minor violations (like picking your nose)
✔✔Functional Explanations of Deviance - ✔✔- explains the existence of social
phenomena by the functions they perform. There's a decision making center to help
organize and direct social life. All of society's various parts, or organs, are defined by
their functions and are arranged as they are due to the needs of the social organism
✔✔- Social control - ✔✔those mechanisms that create normative compliance in
individuals
✔✔- Formal social sanction - ✔✔mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws
prohibit deviant criminal behavior
✔✔Informal social sanction - ✔✔the usually unexpressed but widely known rules of
group membership; the unspoken rules of social life
✔✔Normative Compliance - ✔✔set of mechanisms , the act of abiding by society's
norms or simply following the rules of group life
✔✔- Social integration - ✔✔how well you are integrated into your social group or
community
✔✔- Egoistic suicide - ✔✔suicide that occurs when one is not well integrated into a
social group
, ✔✔o Labeling theory - ✔✔belief that individuals subconsciously notice how others see
or label them, and their reactions to those labels, overtime, form the basis of their self-
identity
✔✔- Stigma - ✔✔a negative social label that not only changes others' behavior toward a
person but also alters that persons own self-concept and social identity
✔✔- Broken windows theory - ✔✔explains how social context and social cues impact
the way individuals act; specifically, whether local, informal social norms allow such
acts. Explains how social context and social cues impact whether individuals act
deviantly; specifically, whether local, informal social norms allow deviant acts
✔✔- Ontological equality - ✔✔the notion that everyone is created equal at birth
✔✔- Equality of opportunity - ✔✔idea that everyone has an equal chance to achieve
wealth, social prestige, and power because of the rules of the game, so to speak, are
the same for everyone
✔✔- Equality of condition - ✔✔the idea that everyone should have an equal starting
point
✔✔Equality of Opportunity - ✔✔idea that everyone has an equal chance to achieve
wealth, social prestige, and power because of the rules of the game, so to speak, are
the same for everyone Equality of Condition
✔✔Equality of Outcome - ✔✔position that argues each player must end up with the
same amount regardless of the fairness of the "game."
✔✔Stratification - ✔✔is a society's categorization of people into socioeconomicstrata,
based upon theiroccupation and income,wealth and social status, and derived power
(social and political)
✔✔Estate System - ✔✔politically based system of stratification characterized by limited
social mobility
✔✔Caste System - ✔✔religion based system of stratification characterized by no social
mobility
✔✔Class System - ✔✔economically based hierarchical system characterized by
cohesive, oppositional groups and somewhat loose social mobility
✔✔Status Hierarchy System - ✔✔a system of stratification based on social prestige
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Embeddedness - ✔✔the degree to which ties are reinforced through indirect paths
within a social network
✔✔Strength of Weak Ties - ✔✔notion that relatively weak ties often turn out to be quite
valuable because they yield new information
✔✔Structural Holes - ✔✔a gap between network clusters, or even two individuals, if
those individuals (or clusters) have complementary resources
✔✔Six Degrees of Separation - ✔✔each one of us is connected to every other person
by social changes of no more than six people
✔✔Social Capital - ✔✔the information, knowledge of people, and connections that help
individuals enter, gain power in, or otherwise leverage social networks
✔✔o Formal Deviance - ✔✔same thing as crime, violation of laws enacted by society
✔✔o Informal Social Deviance - ✔✔minor violations (like picking your nose)
✔✔Functional Explanations of Deviance - ✔✔- explains the existence of social
phenomena by the functions they perform. There's a decision making center to help
organize and direct social life. All of society's various parts, or organs, are defined by
their functions and are arranged as they are due to the needs of the social organism
✔✔- Social control - ✔✔those mechanisms that create normative compliance in
individuals
✔✔- Formal social sanction - ✔✔mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws
prohibit deviant criminal behavior
✔✔Informal social sanction - ✔✔the usually unexpressed but widely known rules of
group membership; the unspoken rules of social life
✔✔Normative Compliance - ✔✔set of mechanisms , the act of abiding by society's
norms or simply following the rules of group life
✔✔- Social integration - ✔✔how well you are integrated into your social group or
community
✔✔- Egoistic suicide - ✔✔suicide that occurs when one is not well integrated into a
social group
, ✔✔o Labeling theory - ✔✔belief that individuals subconsciously notice how others see
or label them, and their reactions to those labels, overtime, form the basis of their self-
identity
✔✔- Stigma - ✔✔a negative social label that not only changes others' behavior toward a
person but also alters that persons own self-concept and social identity
✔✔- Broken windows theory - ✔✔explains how social context and social cues impact
the way individuals act; specifically, whether local, informal social norms allow such
acts. Explains how social context and social cues impact whether individuals act
deviantly; specifically, whether local, informal social norms allow deviant acts
✔✔- Ontological equality - ✔✔the notion that everyone is created equal at birth
✔✔- Equality of opportunity - ✔✔idea that everyone has an equal chance to achieve
wealth, social prestige, and power because of the rules of the game, so to speak, are
the same for everyone
✔✔- Equality of condition - ✔✔the idea that everyone should have an equal starting
point
✔✔Equality of Opportunity - ✔✔idea that everyone has an equal chance to achieve
wealth, social prestige, and power because of the rules of the game, so to speak, are
the same for everyone Equality of Condition
✔✔Equality of Outcome - ✔✔position that argues each player must end up with the
same amount regardless of the fairness of the "game."
✔✔Stratification - ✔✔is a society's categorization of people into socioeconomicstrata,
based upon theiroccupation and income,wealth and social status, and derived power
(social and political)
✔✔Estate System - ✔✔politically based system of stratification characterized by limited
social mobility
✔✔Caste System - ✔✔religion based system of stratification characterized by no social
mobility
✔✔Class System - ✔✔economically based hierarchical system characterized by
cohesive, oppositional groups and somewhat loose social mobility
✔✔Status Hierarchy System - ✔✔a system of stratification based on social prestige
