Sociology 201 Final Exam QUESTIONS WITH WELL VERIFIED
ANSWERS
During her first day of kindergarten, Marie does not understand how the lunch line in the
cafeteria works. She hesitates and watches as the older kids pick up their trays and silverware
and then get in line. She follows their lead and successfully buys herself lunch. Marie's
experience in the lunchroom is an example of _____.
a. Socialization
b. The looking glass self
c. Resocialization
d. Anticipatory socialization - answer☑️✔️..Socialization
Erik Erikson's theory explains:
a. Why Rhesus Monkeys preferred terry cloth maternal stand-ins versus the maternal stand-ins
that provided food.
b. How human sexual desire is linked to the development of a personality.
c. When human moral development begins in an individual.
d. How the actions of society help shape personalities throughout the eight basic stages of life. -
answer☑️✔️..How the actions of society help shape personalities throughout the eight basic
stages of life.
Some sociologists have pointed out that gender roles are often determined by how a society
socializes young boys and girls. Which of the following is an example of socializing a child into a
gender role?
a. Taking Jimmy to the aquarium.
b. Buying Sarah a toy kitchen to play with.
,c. Letting Kim wear pants to school.
d. Allowing Joey to sleep with his "blankey." - answer☑️✔️..Buying Sarah a toy kitchen to play
with
According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, when do humans begin to think about
the feelings of other people and begin to see the world through other people's eyes?
a. When they are born.
b. When they first go to school.
c. In their teenage years
d. After they graduate from college. - answer☑️✔️..In their teenage years
Bobby came home from school crying because the other kids in his class were calling him
stupid. His mother tried to console him, but he really started to believe that he was stupid.
Charles Cooley would say that this is a classic example of _______.
a. The looking-glass self
b. The resocialization process
c. A degradation ceremony
d. Poor parenting - answer☑️✔️..The looking glass self
Katrina, age 5, and Sharon, age 4, love to play together while their mothers chat. Katrina has a
toy iron and washing machine. She and Sharon spend hours "washing" and "ironing" her baby
doll's clothes, just like they see their mothers do. Which of George Herbert Mead's stages of
development are Katrina and Sharon exemplifying?
a. The preparatory stage
b. The play stage
, c. The game stage
d. The "generalized other" stage - answer☑️✔️..The preparatory stage
Émile Durkheim's much lauded study of suicide is important to the field of sociology in many
ways. One of the most influential impacts was:
a. It defined the differences between sociology and psychology
b. It allowed psychology and sociology to merge into one field.
c. It showed the psychological reasons for suicide to be a lie.
d. It earned Émile Durkheim the title "Father of Sociology" so that other sociologists would have
a role model. - answer☑️✔️..It declined the differences between sociology and psychology
It is parent-teacher conference day at Littleton Elementary School. Jimmy's teacher is anxious to
meet his parents and discuss his habit of disrupting the class. When the teacher expresses her
concern that Jimmy is not being socialized properly, his dad insists that he was the same way at
Jimmy's age and that disrupting the class is natural for the children in his family. Jimmy's teacher
and father are arguing about which fundamental sociological theory?
a. Kohlberg's theory of Moral Development
b. George Herbert Mead's theory of self-development
c. Nature vs. Nurture
d. Freud's theory of self-development - answer☑️✔️..Nature vs. Nurture
Parents often socialize their children to:
a. Understand and follow different norms from what they themselves follow
b. Understand and follow the same norms that they themselves follow
c. Ignore society and create their own norms and follow them regardless of consequences
ANSWERS
During her first day of kindergarten, Marie does not understand how the lunch line in the
cafeteria works. She hesitates and watches as the older kids pick up their trays and silverware
and then get in line. She follows their lead and successfully buys herself lunch. Marie's
experience in the lunchroom is an example of _____.
a. Socialization
b. The looking glass self
c. Resocialization
d. Anticipatory socialization - answer☑️✔️..Socialization
Erik Erikson's theory explains:
a. Why Rhesus Monkeys preferred terry cloth maternal stand-ins versus the maternal stand-ins
that provided food.
b. How human sexual desire is linked to the development of a personality.
c. When human moral development begins in an individual.
d. How the actions of society help shape personalities throughout the eight basic stages of life. -
answer☑️✔️..How the actions of society help shape personalities throughout the eight basic
stages of life.
Some sociologists have pointed out that gender roles are often determined by how a society
socializes young boys and girls. Which of the following is an example of socializing a child into a
gender role?
a. Taking Jimmy to the aquarium.
b. Buying Sarah a toy kitchen to play with.
,c. Letting Kim wear pants to school.
d. Allowing Joey to sleep with his "blankey." - answer☑️✔️..Buying Sarah a toy kitchen to play
with
According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, when do humans begin to think about
the feelings of other people and begin to see the world through other people's eyes?
a. When they are born.
b. When they first go to school.
c. In their teenage years
d. After they graduate from college. - answer☑️✔️..In their teenage years
Bobby came home from school crying because the other kids in his class were calling him
stupid. His mother tried to console him, but he really started to believe that he was stupid.
Charles Cooley would say that this is a classic example of _______.
a. The looking-glass self
b. The resocialization process
c. A degradation ceremony
d. Poor parenting - answer☑️✔️..The looking glass self
Katrina, age 5, and Sharon, age 4, love to play together while their mothers chat. Katrina has a
toy iron and washing machine. She and Sharon spend hours "washing" and "ironing" her baby
doll's clothes, just like they see their mothers do. Which of George Herbert Mead's stages of
development are Katrina and Sharon exemplifying?
a. The preparatory stage
b. The play stage
, c. The game stage
d. The "generalized other" stage - answer☑️✔️..The preparatory stage
Émile Durkheim's much lauded study of suicide is important to the field of sociology in many
ways. One of the most influential impacts was:
a. It defined the differences between sociology and psychology
b. It allowed psychology and sociology to merge into one field.
c. It showed the psychological reasons for suicide to be a lie.
d. It earned Émile Durkheim the title "Father of Sociology" so that other sociologists would have
a role model. - answer☑️✔️..It declined the differences between sociology and psychology
It is parent-teacher conference day at Littleton Elementary School. Jimmy's teacher is anxious to
meet his parents and discuss his habit of disrupting the class. When the teacher expresses her
concern that Jimmy is not being socialized properly, his dad insists that he was the same way at
Jimmy's age and that disrupting the class is natural for the children in his family. Jimmy's teacher
and father are arguing about which fundamental sociological theory?
a. Kohlberg's theory of Moral Development
b. George Herbert Mead's theory of self-development
c. Nature vs. Nurture
d. Freud's theory of self-development - answer☑️✔️..Nature vs. Nurture
Parents often socialize their children to:
a. Understand and follow different norms from what they themselves follow
b. Understand and follow the same norms that they themselves follow
c. Ignore society and create their own norms and follow them regardless of consequences
