SOCIOLOGY 111 UPDATED PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Teamwork - ✔✔We all work together to create a positive view on everyone
✔✔Preventive (practices) - ✔✔Try to protect our image before (ex. "this may be wrong,
but I think...")
✔✔Corrective (practices) - ✔✔Try to protect our image after (ex. "I meant to do that.")
✔✔Contagion - ✔✔Crowd behavior is a result of mesmerization; it's the hypnotic
influence of a crowd.
✔✔Emergent - ✔✔New norms emerge in an event. Kind of like contagion, but with more
agency involved (ex. "Everybody else is doing it, I might as well...").
✔✔Convergent - ✔✔People already are predisposed to a certain behavior before
joining a crowd.
✔✔Conformity - ✔✔Contrary to our better judgment, we conform (Ashe's line
experiment taught us particularly that the power of conformity diminishes as we have an
advocate or privacy)
✔✔Obedience To Authority - ✔✔Contrary to our better judgement, we obey figures who
appear to be in positions of authority (like Milgram's shock experiment and Zimbardo's
prison guard experiment).
✔✔Group Think - ✔✔Poor decisions made as a group because of certain dominant
members, which leads to close-mindedness, squelching of dissent, rationalization,
mind-guarding, and incomplete examinations of alternatives.
✔✔Groups (social) - ✔✔Share common beliefs, and because of this, share a strong
bond. Huge effect on our actions.
✔✔Aggregate (social) - ✔✔Not bonded, merely coincidental (ex. Crosswalk, stoplights,
etc.) Somewhat influences our actions
✔✔Categories (social) - ✔✔Not bonded, merely coincidental (ex. Crosswalk, stoplights,
etc.) Somewhat influences our actions
✔✔Primary (social groups) - ✔✔Smaller, less specialized, more emotional, face-to-face,
long term (ex. family)
, ✔✔Secondary (social groups) - ✔✔Bigger, more specialized, goal-oriented (ex. co-
workers)
✔✔Ingroup (social) - ✔✔Where we feel identity (ex. your ward)
✔✔Outgroup (social) - ✔✔Groups that we aren't a part of, or even hostile towards (ex.
rival gang)
✔✔Reference Group (social) - ✔✔The group you aspire to be like. (ex. rock bands,
"The District")
✔✔Instrumental Leader - ✔✔Task Oriented
✔✔Expressive leader - ✔✔socioeconomical
✔✔Asch Experiment - ✔✔Length of line experiments
✔✔Milgram Experiments - ✔✔Structured obedience, shocking people who answered
incorrectly
✔✔Zimbardo experiment - ✔✔Prison with 1/2 guards and 1/2 prisoners
✔✔Small world hypothesis - ✔✔Idea that the world is closely linked, hypothesis was six
people. Experiment sent letters.
✔✔Strong ties - ✔✔People that you are close to
✔✔Weak ties - ✔✔acquaintances
✔✔ Sociological Perspective - ✔✔The social context in which we live, how we are
influenced by society. (vs economical/psychological perspectives)
✔✔Social Location - ✔✔Corners in life we occupy; our place. Ex. race, sex, generation,
nationality
✔✔Functionalism - ✔✔Developed by Durkeim. The idea that we have social roles, and
together these different roles create a functioning society.
✔✔Conflict Theory - ✔✔Developed by Marx. Groups are separate, one is superior and
controls the society. There is a struggle for power and equality. Does form social order,
but not consensus.
✔✔Symbolic-Interactionism - ✔✔Developed by Weber. We act how we interpret the
world. We all see the world in a different way. (ex. Protestants vs. Catholics, protestants
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Teamwork - ✔✔We all work together to create a positive view on everyone
✔✔Preventive (practices) - ✔✔Try to protect our image before (ex. "this may be wrong,
but I think...")
✔✔Corrective (practices) - ✔✔Try to protect our image after (ex. "I meant to do that.")
✔✔Contagion - ✔✔Crowd behavior is a result of mesmerization; it's the hypnotic
influence of a crowd.
✔✔Emergent - ✔✔New norms emerge in an event. Kind of like contagion, but with more
agency involved (ex. "Everybody else is doing it, I might as well...").
✔✔Convergent - ✔✔People already are predisposed to a certain behavior before
joining a crowd.
✔✔Conformity - ✔✔Contrary to our better judgment, we conform (Ashe's line
experiment taught us particularly that the power of conformity diminishes as we have an
advocate or privacy)
✔✔Obedience To Authority - ✔✔Contrary to our better judgement, we obey figures who
appear to be in positions of authority (like Milgram's shock experiment and Zimbardo's
prison guard experiment).
✔✔Group Think - ✔✔Poor decisions made as a group because of certain dominant
members, which leads to close-mindedness, squelching of dissent, rationalization,
mind-guarding, and incomplete examinations of alternatives.
✔✔Groups (social) - ✔✔Share common beliefs, and because of this, share a strong
bond. Huge effect on our actions.
✔✔Aggregate (social) - ✔✔Not bonded, merely coincidental (ex. Crosswalk, stoplights,
etc.) Somewhat influences our actions
✔✔Categories (social) - ✔✔Not bonded, merely coincidental (ex. Crosswalk, stoplights,
etc.) Somewhat influences our actions
✔✔Primary (social groups) - ✔✔Smaller, less specialized, more emotional, face-to-face,
long term (ex. family)
, ✔✔Secondary (social groups) - ✔✔Bigger, more specialized, goal-oriented (ex. co-
workers)
✔✔Ingroup (social) - ✔✔Where we feel identity (ex. your ward)
✔✔Outgroup (social) - ✔✔Groups that we aren't a part of, or even hostile towards (ex.
rival gang)
✔✔Reference Group (social) - ✔✔The group you aspire to be like. (ex. rock bands,
"The District")
✔✔Instrumental Leader - ✔✔Task Oriented
✔✔Expressive leader - ✔✔socioeconomical
✔✔Asch Experiment - ✔✔Length of line experiments
✔✔Milgram Experiments - ✔✔Structured obedience, shocking people who answered
incorrectly
✔✔Zimbardo experiment - ✔✔Prison with 1/2 guards and 1/2 prisoners
✔✔Small world hypothesis - ✔✔Idea that the world is closely linked, hypothesis was six
people. Experiment sent letters.
✔✔Strong ties - ✔✔People that you are close to
✔✔Weak ties - ✔✔acquaintances
✔✔ Sociological Perspective - ✔✔The social context in which we live, how we are
influenced by society. (vs economical/psychological perspectives)
✔✔Social Location - ✔✔Corners in life we occupy; our place. Ex. race, sex, generation,
nationality
✔✔Functionalism - ✔✔Developed by Durkeim. The idea that we have social roles, and
together these different roles create a functioning society.
✔✔Conflict Theory - ✔✔Developed by Marx. Groups are separate, one is superior and
controls the society. There is a struggle for power and equality. Does form social order,
but not consensus.
✔✔Symbolic-Interactionism - ✔✔Developed by Weber. We act how we interpret the
world. We all see the world in a different way. (ex. Protestants vs. Catholics, protestants
