SOCS 185 REVIEW SHEET FINAL
2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS
◉ Socialization. Answer: the lifelong social experience by which people
develop their human potential and learn culture
◉ feral children. Answer: children assumed to have been raised by
animals, in the wilderness, isolated from humans
◉ Genie the Wild Child. Answer: Raised in isolation and abuse, her
critical period had passed by the time she was
rescued and she never reached her language potential.
◉ Aguste Comte. Answer: coined the term sociology
◉ C. Wright Mills. Answer: coined the term sociological imagination
◉ Emilie Durkheim. Answer: Functionalism
◉ Sociological Research. Answer: the systematic collection and analysis
of information for the purpose of testing or creating sociological theories
, ◉ Scientific Method. Answer: A series of steps followed to solve
problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the
hypothesis, and stating conclusions.
◉ Functionalist Perspective. Answer: A sociological approach that
emphasizes the way in which the parts of a society are structured to
maintain its stability.
◉ conflict perspective. Answer: approach emphasizing the role of
conflict, competition, and constraint within a society
◉ Symbolic Interactionism. Answer: a micro-level theory in which
shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic
motivations behind people's actions
◉ crime. Answer: the violation of a society's formally enacted criminal
law
◉ white collar crime. Answer: crime committed by people of high social
position in the course of their occupations
◉ gender socialization. Answer: the learning of gender roles through
social factors such as schooling, the media, and family
◉ Resocialization. Answer: the process of learning new norms, values,
attitudes, and behaviors
2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS
◉ Socialization. Answer: the lifelong social experience by which people
develop their human potential and learn culture
◉ feral children. Answer: children assumed to have been raised by
animals, in the wilderness, isolated from humans
◉ Genie the Wild Child. Answer: Raised in isolation and abuse, her
critical period had passed by the time she was
rescued and she never reached her language potential.
◉ Aguste Comte. Answer: coined the term sociology
◉ C. Wright Mills. Answer: coined the term sociological imagination
◉ Emilie Durkheim. Answer: Functionalism
◉ Sociological Research. Answer: the systematic collection and analysis
of information for the purpose of testing or creating sociological theories
, ◉ Scientific Method. Answer: A series of steps followed to solve
problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the
hypothesis, and stating conclusions.
◉ Functionalist Perspective. Answer: A sociological approach that
emphasizes the way in which the parts of a society are structured to
maintain its stability.
◉ conflict perspective. Answer: approach emphasizing the role of
conflict, competition, and constraint within a society
◉ Symbolic Interactionism. Answer: a micro-level theory in which
shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic
motivations behind people's actions
◉ crime. Answer: the violation of a society's formally enacted criminal
law
◉ white collar crime. Answer: crime committed by people of high social
position in the course of their occupations
◉ gender socialization. Answer: the learning of gender roles through
social factors such as schooling, the media, and family
◉ Resocialization. Answer: the process of learning new norms, values,
attitudes, and behaviors
