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SOCIOLOGY 1301 EXAM 1|ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
2026
Conflict Perspective - correct-answer -(social-conflict)
Conflict: scale - correct-answer -MACRO level - large scale
Conflict: View of social world - correct-answer -society is characterized by conflict, struggle, and
inequality; this periodically erupts into rapid social change leading to greater equality
Conflict: Value neutrality - correct-answer -are not value neutral; they are activists; argue that
functionalists are not value neutral either because not reporting clear negative findings is
choosing (value judgment) to let that negative continue, Know something's happening and
don't call attention to it
Conflict: 3 underlying assumptions - correct-answer -- Social groups compete for scarce
resources(things that are valued but limited)
-Society is structured unequally such that some groups have more access to the resources than
others
-Social change is revolutionary, meaning rapid and major, leading to greater equality
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Dialectic - correct-answer -any idea, because it exists, automatically calls into being its opposite
idea (BIG and little)
Dialectic groups - correct-answer -NRA (National Rifle Association) and Handgun Inc.
Operation Rescue and NARAL Pro Choice America
Conflict:Sociological critique - correct-answer -fail to explain the slow changes and stability that
are present in human societies
Interactionist Perspective - correct-answer -(symbolic- Interactionist)
Interactionist: scale - correct-answer -MICRO level - small scale, level at which interaction
occurs
Interactionist: View of the social world - correct-answer -you can never fully understand human
social interaction unless you study it while it occurs, at the level at which it occurs, because
humans constantly define and redefine meaning while interacting
Interactionist: 3 underlying assumptions - correct-answer --Symbols have multiple meanings
and interpretations
-Meanings develop and change during the course of interaction
-Meanings are negotiable and all members of the interaction are part of the process
SOCIOLOGY 1301 EXAM 1|ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
2026
Conflict Perspective - correct-answer -(social-conflict)
Conflict: scale - correct-answer -MACRO level - large scale
Conflict: View of social world - correct-answer -society is characterized by conflict, struggle, and
inequality; this periodically erupts into rapid social change leading to greater equality
Conflict: Value neutrality - correct-answer -are not value neutral; they are activists; argue that
functionalists are not value neutral either because not reporting clear negative findings is
choosing (value judgment) to let that negative continue, Know something's happening and
don't call attention to it
Conflict: 3 underlying assumptions - correct-answer -- Social groups compete for scarce
resources(things that are valued but limited)
-Society is structured unequally such that some groups have more access to the resources than
others
-Social change is revolutionary, meaning rapid and major, leading to greater equality
, 2|Page
Dialectic - correct-answer -any idea, because it exists, automatically calls into being its opposite
idea (BIG and little)
Dialectic groups - correct-answer -NRA (National Rifle Association) and Handgun Inc.
Operation Rescue and NARAL Pro Choice America
Conflict:Sociological critique - correct-answer -fail to explain the slow changes and stability that
are present in human societies
Interactionist Perspective - correct-answer -(symbolic- Interactionist)
Interactionist: scale - correct-answer -MICRO level - small scale, level at which interaction
occurs
Interactionist: View of the social world - correct-answer -you can never fully understand human
social interaction unless you study it while it occurs, at the level at which it occurs, because
humans constantly define and redefine meaning while interacting
Interactionist: 3 underlying assumptions - correct-answer --Symbols have multiple meanings
and interpretations
-Meanings develop and change during the course of interaction
-Meanings are negotiable and all members of the interaction are part of the process
