SOC 200 FINAL EXAM QUESTION AND
ANSWERS ANSWERED ALL CORRECTLY
ANSWERED; LATEST UPDATED SUMMER
2026
______ are nonmaterial, shared judgments about what is
desirable or undesirable, right or wrong, or good or bad in
a culture. - correct answer - Values
______ focuses on social processes that define
homosexuality as deviant and legitimize heterosexuality
as the only normal lifestyle. - correct answer -
Heterosexism
______ involves an individual or a family with a national
loyalty to more than one country. - correct answer -
Transnationalism
______ refer to our social positions, and ______ refer to the
expectations associated with a social position. - correct
answer - Statuses; roles
______ refers to the perceptions we have of who we are. -
correct answer - The social self
,______ theory pictures humans as consciously and
deliberately creating their personal and collective
histories. - correct answer - Symbolic interaction
A ______ refers to one of the largest social units and
includes a population of people, usually living within a
specified geographic area, connected by common ideas
and subject to a particular political authority. - correct
answer - national society
A biological term that refers to ascribed genetic,
anatomical, and hormonal differences between men and
women is ______. - correct answer - sex
A central premise of micro-level rational choice theory is
that human behavior involves choices. - correct answer -
True
A child who can play "mommy" but who cannot play
baseball is in what stage of George Herbert Mead's social
development? - correct answer - play
A focus on individual or small-group interaction entails
micro-level analysis. - correct answer - True
,A grocery store that intentionally sells expired meat is
committing a crime against the public. - correct answer -
True
A large, modern society with a complex division of labor is
a(n) ______ society. - correct answer - organic
A married couple is a social unit. - correct answer - A
married couple is a social unit.
A minority reaction to racial prejudice or racial
discrimination that addresses meso- and/or macro-level
issues is called ______. - correct answer - change-
oriented action
A social scientist is trained to study the contents of
garbage heaps. "What can we learn from studying
garbage?" would most likely be asked by a(n) ______. -
correct answer - anthropologist
A society's culture prescribes, to a large extent, the way
people behave and think in that society. - correct answer
- True
, A sociological perspective on race suggests that: -
correct answer - racial categories are socially
constructed.
A study that examines how elementary school children
form cliques on the playground would constitute ______. -
correct answer - micro-level research
A subculture is a group with expectations and values that
contrast sharply with the dominant values of a particular
society. - correct answer - False
A useful metaphor your text's authors use to explain
society and culture is that society is the ______, and
culture is the ______ of our social world. - correct answer
- hardware; software
A(n) ______ is a group within the human species that is
identified by a society as presumably having certain
biologically inherited physical characteristics. - correct
answer - race
About 2% of babies are born with "anomalies of sex
chromosomes, internal procreative organs, and external
genitalia in a variety of combinations" and are otherwise
known as ______. - correct answer - intersexed
ANSWERS ANSWERED ALL CORRECTLY
ANSWERED; LATEST UPDATED SUMMER
2026
______ are nonmaterial, shared judgments about what is
desirable or undesirable, right or wrong, or good or bad in
a culture. - correct answer - Values
______ focuses on social processes that define
homosexuality as deviant and legitimize heterosexuality
as the only normal lifestyle. - correct answer -
Heterosexism
______ involves an individual or a family with a national
loyalty to more than one country. - correct answer -
Transnationalism
______ refer to our social positions, and ______ refer to the
expectations associated with a social position. - correct
answer - Statuses; roles
______ refers to the perceptions we have of who we are. -
correct answer - The social self
,______ theory pictures humans as consciously and
deliberately creating their personal and collective
histories. - correct answer - Symbolic interaction
A ______ refers to one of the largest social units and
includes a population of people, usually living within a
specified geographic area, connected by common ideas
and subject to a particular political authority. - correct
answer - national society
A biological term that refers to ascribed genetic,
anatomical, and hormonal differences between men and
women is ______. - correct answer - sex
A central premise of micro-level rational choice theory is
that human behavior involves choices. - correct answer -
True
A child who can play "mommy" but who cannot play
baseball is in what stage of George Herbert Mead's social
development? - correct answer - play
A focus on individual or small-group interaction entails
micro-level analysis. - correct answer - True
,A grocery store that intentionally sells expired meat is
committing a crime against the public. - correct answer -
True
A large, modern society with a complex division of labor is
a(n) ______ society. - correct answer - organic
A married couple is a social unit. - correct answer - A
married couple is a social unit.
A minority reaction to racial prejudice or racial
discrimination that addresses meso- and/or macro-level
issues is called ______. - correct answer - change-
oriented action
A social scientist is trained to study the contents of
garbage heaps. "What can we learn from studying
garbage?" would most likely be asked by a(n) ______. -
correct answer - anthropologist
A society's culture prescribes, to a large extent, the way
people behave and think in that society. - correct answer
- True
, A sociological perspective on race suggests that: -
correct answer - racial categories are socially
constructed.
A study that examines how elementary school children
form cliques on the playground would constitute ______. -
correct answer - micro-level research
A subculture is a group with expectations and values that
contrast sharply with the dominant values of a particular
society. - correct answer - False
A useful metaphor your text's authors use to explain
society and culture is that society is the ______, and
culture is the ______ of our social world. - correct answer
- hardware; software
A(n) ______ is a group within the human species that is
identified by a society as presumably having certain
biologically inherited physical characteristics. - correct
answer - race
About 2% of babies are born with "anomalies of sex
chromosomes, internal procreative organs, and external
genitalia in a variety of combinations" and are otherwise
known as ______. - correct answer - intersexed
