SOCIOLOGY 111 UPDATED STUDY EXAMS QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔folkways - ✔✔norms that carry less punishment; chewing with your mouth open. (not
socially acceptable, but you won't be thrown into jail)
✔✔intersexuals - ✔✔individuals for whom sexual differentiation is either incomplete or
indistinct
✔✔mores - ✔✔norms (often put into law) that are taken very seriously by a society
✔✔sanctions - ✔✔
✔✔subculture - ✔✔
✔✔game stage - ✔✔occurs about the time when children first begin to participate in
organized activities such as school events and team sports
✔✔generalized other - ✔✔the child learns to respond to the demands of several people
and she or he can also respond to the demands of the community or even society as a
whole.
✔✔play stage - ✔✔occurs when children are just beginning to hone their language
skills. Role taking at the play stage is quite simple in form, limited to taking the
perspective of one other person at a time.
✔✔resocialization - ✔✔the process of learning new norms, values, attitudes, and
behaviors
✔✔role taking - ✔✔Ability to use other people's perspectives and expecting formulating
ones own behavior
✔✔self - ✔✔unique set of traits, behaviors, and attitudes that distinguishes one person
from the next; the active source and passive object of behavior
✔✔sex - ✔✔biological maleness or femaleness
✔✔socialization - ✔✔the lifelong social experience by which people develop their
human potential and learn culture
✔✔total institution - ✔✔a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society
and manipulated by an administrative staff
, ✔✔tracking - ✔✔a way of dividing students into different classes by ability or future
plans
✔✔account - ✔✔Verbal statement designed to explain unanticipated embarrassing or
unacceptable behavior
✔✔aligning actions - ✔✔Restoring social order and overcoming spoiled identify
Simple as apologizing if you step on someone's foot
✔✔back stage - ✔✔Area where people can knowingly violate their impression
management performances
✔✔cooling out - ✔✔gently persuading someone who has lost face to accept a less
desirable but still reasonable alternative identity
✔✔disclaimer - ✔✔assertion designed to forestall any complaints or negative reactions
to a behavior or statement that is about to occur
✔✔dramaturgy - ✔✔analyzing social interaction as a series of theatrical performances
✔✔embarrasment - ✔✔Suddenly having the identity we present discredited by others
✔✔front stage - ✔✔area of social interaction where people perform and work to
maintain appropriate impressions
✔✔impression formation - ✔✔Immediate impression based on observable cues such as
a age, ascribed status characteristics such as race and sex, individual attributes such
as physical appearance and verbal and non verbal expression
✔✔sitigma - ✔✔permanent spoiling one one's identity
✔✔Exogamy - ✔✔romantic relationship to someone outside one's social group
✔✔Endogamy - ✔✔the practice of marrying within certain groups to which they belong
✔✔List the five components of culture - ✔✔symbols, language, values and beliefs,
norms, and material artifacts.
✔✔ According to the "social imagination", social problems can be solved by -
✔✔changing social institutions and roles
✔✔Which famous sociologist coined the term "sociological imagination?" - ✔✔c. Wright
Mills
AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔folkways - ✔✔norms that carry less punishment; chewing with your mouth open. (not
socially acceptable, but you won't be thrown into jail)
✔✔intersexuals - ✔✔individuals for whom sexual differentiation is either incomplete or
indistinct
✔✔mores - ✔✔norms (often put into law) that are taken very seriously by a society
✔✔sanctions - ✔✔
✔✔subculture - ✔✔
✔✔game stage - ✔✔occurs about the time when children first begin to participate in
organized activities such as school events and team sports
✔✔generalized other - ✔✔the child learns to respond to the demands of several people
and she or he can also respond to the demands of the community or even society as a
whole.
✔✔play stage - ✔✔occurs when children are just beginning to hone their language
skills. Role taking at the play stage is quite simple in form, limited to taking the
perspective of one other person at a time.
✔✔resocialization - ✔✔the process of learning new norms, values, attitudes, and
behaviors
✔✔role taking - ✔✔Ability to use other people's perspectives and expecting formulating
ones own behavior
✔✔self - ✔✔unique set of traits, behaviors, and attitudes that distinguishes one person
from the next; the active source and passive object of behavior
✔✔sex - ✔✔biological maleness or femaleness
✔✔socialization - ✔✔the lifelong social experience by which people develop their
human potential and learn culture
✔✔total institution - ✔✔a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society
and manipulated by an administrative staff
, ✔✔tracking - ✔✔a way of dividing students into different classes by ability or future
plans
✔✔account - ✔✔Verbal statement designed to explain unanticipated embarrassing or
unacceptable behavior
✔✔aligning actions - ✔✔Restoring social order and overcoming spoiled identify
Simple as apologizing if you step on someone's foot
✔✔back stage - ✔✔Area where people can knowingly violate their impression
management performances
✔✔cooling out - ✔✔gently persuading someone who has lost face to accept a less
desirable but still reasonable alternative identity
✔✔disclaimer - ✔✔assertion designed to forestall any complaints or negative reactions
to a behavior or statement that is about to occur
✔✔dramaturgy - ✔✔analyzing social interaction as a series of theatrical performances
✔✔embarrasment - ✔✔Suddenly having the identity we present discredited by others
✔✔front stage - ✔✔area of social interaction where people perform and work to
maintain appropriate impressions
✔✔impression formation - ✔✔Immediate impression based on observable cues such as
a age, ascribed status characteristics such as race and sex, individual attributes such
as physical appearance and verbal and non verbal expression
✔✔sitigma - ✔✔permanent spoiling one one's identity
✔✔Exogamy - ✔✔romantic relationship to someone outside one's social group
✔✔Endogamy - ✔✔the practice of marrying within certain groups to which they belong
✔✔List the five components of culture - ✔✔symbols, language, values and beliefs,
norms, and material artifacts.
✔✔ According to the "social imagination", social problems can be solved by -
✔✔changing social institutions and roles
✔✔Which famous sociologist coined the term "sociological imagination?" - ✔✔c. Wright
Mills
