SYG 2000 LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GUARANTEE A+
✔✔According to Robert Merton, what is the difference between manifest and latent
functions?
A. Manifest functions usually have something to do with social conflict and change.
B. Manifest functions are intended and obvious.
C. Manifest functions are accidental and often hard to recognize.
D. Manifest functions are designed to alleviate inequality.
E. Manifest functions are designed to critique the social system that produced them. -
✔✔B. Manifest functions are intended and obvious
✔✔Which of the following is a latent function of the educational system in the United
States?
A. teaching reading and writing
B. keeping children out of trouble while parents are at work
C. preparing a modern workforce to use technology
D. instructing new immigrants in American values and history
E. all of the above - ✔✔B. keeping children out of trouble while parents are at work
✔✔Which of the following is the most serious critique of structural functionalism?
A. It tends to overlook those areas of society that are stable and orderly.
B. It tends to argue that intellectuals should act on what they believe.
C. It overemphasizes the importance of the economy.
D. It fails to provide a universal social theory.
E. It tends to argue that any social feature that exists must serve a function. - ✔✔E. It
tends to argue that any social feature that exists must serve a function
✔✔Which of the following theories views society as a whole unit, made up of
interrelated parts that work together?
A. structural functionalism
B. conflict theory
C. symbolic interactionism
D. psychoanalysis
E. postmodernism - ✔✔A. structural functionalism
✔✔Stricter control of the border between the United States and Mexico was
implemented to curb illegal immigration, but it also made illegal immigrants more likely
to stay in the United States for longer periods of time, because frequent border
crossings became both dangerous and costly. The increase in the number of illegal
immigrants who stayed permanently or semi-permanently is:
A. a manifest function of the border patrol.
B. a latent function of increased security.
C. a serious source of anomie.
D. a source of mechanical solidarity.
, E. a cause for repression and sublimation. - ✔✔B. a latent function of increased security
✔✔What is the definition of "culture"?
A. Culture includes the habits and lifestyle choices of a group of people.
B. Culture includes customs and rituals, as well as tools and artifacts.
C. Culture shapes and defines who we are.
D. Culture encompasses every aspect of social life.
E. all of the above - ✔✔E. all of the above
✔✔The ability to understand another culture in terms of that culture's own norms and
values, without reference to any other cultural standards is called:
A. Marxism.
B. ethnocentrism.
C. cultural relativism.
D. cultural lag.
E. variability. - ✔✔C. cultural relativism
✔✔Why is it hard to recognize that the values and beliefs of one's own culture are
learned rather than innate?
A. We are born with these values and beliefs.
B. We learn values and beliefs slowly and incrementally.
C. It is human nature to accept one's own culture as superior.
D. Values and beliefs are only taught in school.
E. all of the above - ✔✔B. We learn values and beliefs slowly and incrementally
✔✔The article "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" is useful to sociologists because:
A. it presents a striking example of an exotic culture.
B. it challenges people's inability to observe their own cultures.
C. it demonstrates proper fieldwork techniques for studying a different culture.
D. it demonstrates how different other cultures are from American culture.
E. it provides a host of insights into premodern cultures. - ✔✔B. it challenges people's
inability to observe their own cultures
✔✔Which of the following is a way to partially suspend one's own ethnocentrism, at
least temporarily?
A. adopting cultural relativism
B. mimicking the other culture
C. using norms, values, and beliefs
D. following legal requirements
E. belonging to a subculture - ✔✔A. adopting cultural relativism
✔✔The famous feminist and social theorist Judith Butler has criticized westerners who
want to "free" Muslim women from wearing a veil or burqa. Butler believes that liberation
from the veil is not the liberation many Americans might assume it is. Butler's critique
exemplifies what term or concept?
GUARANTEE A+
✔✔According to Robert Merton, what is the difference between manifest and latent
functions?
A. Manifest functions usually have something to do with social conflict and change.
B. Manifest functions are intended and obvious.
C. Manifest functions are accidental and often hard to recognize.
D. Manifest functions are designed to alleviate inequality.
E. Manifest functions are designed to critique the social system that produced them. -
✔✔B. Manifest functions are intended and obvious
✔✔Which of the following is a latent function of the educational system in the United
States?
A. teaching reading and writing
B. keeping children out of trouble while parents are at work
C. preparing a modern workforce to use technology
D. instructing new immigrants in American values and history
E. all of the above - ✔✔B. keeping children out of trouble while parents are at work
✔✔Which of the following is the most serious critique of structural functionalism?
A. It tends to overlook those areas of society that are stable and orderly.
B. It tends to argue that intellectuals should act on what they believe.
C. It overemphasizes the importance of the economy.
D. It fails to provide a universal social theory.
E. It tends to argue that any social feature that exists must serve a function. - ✔✔E. It
tends to argue that any social feature that exists must serve a function
✔✔Which of the following theories views society as a whole unit, made up of
interrelated parts that work together?
A. structural functionalism
B. conflict theory
C. symbolic interactionism
D. psychoanalysis
E. postmodernism - ✔✔A. structural functionalism
✔✔Stricter control of the border between the United States and Mexico was
implemented to curb illegal immigration, but it also made illegal immigrants more likely
to stay in the United States for longer periods of time, because frequent border
crossings became both dangerous and costly. The increase in the number of illegal
immigrants who stayed permanently or semi-permanently is:
A. a manifest function of the border patrol.
B. a latent function of increased security.
C. a serious source of anomie.
D. a source of mechanical solidarity.
, E. a cause for repression and sublimation. - ✔✔B. a latent function of increased security
✔✔What is the definition of "culture"?
A. Culture includes the habits and lifestyle choices of a group of people.
B. Culture includes customs and rituals, as well as tools and artifacts.
C. Culture shapes and defines who we are.
D. Culture encompasses every aspect of social life.
E. all of the above - ✔✔E. all of the above
✔✔The ability to understand another culture in terms of that culture's own norms and
values, without reference to any other cultural standards is called:
A. Marxism.
B. ethnocentrism.
C. cultural relativism.
D. cultural lag.
E. variability. - ✔✔C. cultural relativism
✔✔Why is it hard to recognize that the values and beliefs of one's own culture are
learned rather than innate?
A. We are born with these values and beliefs.
B. We learn values and beliefs slowly and incrementally.
C. It is human nature to accept one's own culture as superior.
D. Values and beliefs are only taught in school.
E. all of the above - ✔✔B. We learn values and beliefs slowly and incrementally
✔✔The article "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" is useful to sociologists because:
A. it presents a striking example of an exotic culture.
B. it challenges people's inability to observe their own cultures.
C. it demonstrates proper fieldwork techniques for studying a different culture.
D. it demonstrates how different other cultures are from American culture.
E. it provides a host of insights into premodern cultures. - ✔✔B. it challenges people's
inability to observe their own cultures
✔✔Which of the following is a way to partially suspend one's own ethnocentrism, at
least temporarily?
A. adopting cultural relativism
B. mimicking the other culture
C. using norms, values, and beliefs
D. following legal requirements
E. belonging to a subculture - ✔✔A. adopting cultural relativism
✔✔The famous feminist and social theorist Judith Butler has criticized westerners who
want to "free" Muslim women from wearing a veil or burqa. Butler believes that liberation
from the veil is not the liberation many Americans might assume it is. Butler's critique
exemplifies what term or concept?
