SOCIOLOGY MIDTERM TEST PAPER SOLVED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Social Facts.
Answer: The aspects of social life that shape our actions as
individuals
◉ Organic solidarity.
Answer: The social cohesion that results from the various parts of a
society functioning as an integrated whole.
◉ Social constraint.
Answer: The conditioning influence on our behavior of the groups
and societies of which we are members
◉ Anomie.
Answer: referring to a situation in which social norms lose their hold
over individual behavior..... When an individual goes astray
◉ Materialist conception of history.
Answer: develped by Karl Marx, according to which material or
economic factors have a prime role in determining historical change.
,◉ capitalism.
Answer: An economic system based on private ownership of wealth,
which is invested and reinvested in order to produce profit.
◉ Social imagination.
Answer: The application of imagnative thought to the asking and
answering of sociological questions
◉ Structuration.
Answer: The two way process by which we shape our social world
through individual actions and by which we are reshaped by society
◉ Natural Science.
Answer: Study of physical features, nature and the ways they
interact and change
◉ Social Science.
Answer: The study of social features of humans and the ways they
interact and change.
◉ Theory.
, Answer: set of statements that seek to explain problems, actions or
behaviors.
◉ symbolic interactionism.
Answer: (G.H Mead) emphasizes the role of symbols and language as
core elements of all human interaction.
◉ Symbol.
Answer: One item used to stand for or represent another.
◉ functionalism.
Answer: the notion that social events can best be explained in terms
of the functions they perform- that is the contributions they make to
the community of a society.
◉ manifest functions.
Answer: the functions of a particular social activity that are known
to and intended by the individuals involved in the activity
◉ latent functions.
Answer: Functional consequences that are not intended or
recognized by the members of a social system in which they occur
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Social Facts.
Answer: The aspects of social life that shape our actions as
individuals
◉ Organic solidarity.
Answer: The social cohesion that results from the various parts of a
society functioning as an integrated whole.
◉ Social constraint.
Answer: The conditioning influence on our behavior of the groups
and societies of which we are members
◉ Anomie.
Answer: referring to a situation in which social norms lose their hold
over individual behavior..... When an individual goes astray
◉ Materialist conception of history.
Answer: develped by Karl Marx, according to which material or
economic factors have a prime role in determining historical change.
,◉ capitalism.
Answer: An economic system based on private ownership of wealth,
which is invested and reinvested in order to produce profit.
◉ Social imagination.
Answer: The application of imagnative thought to the asking and
answering of sociological questions
◉ Structuration.
Answer: The two way process by which we shape our social world
through individual actions and by which we are reshaped by society
◉ Natural Science.
Answer: Study of physical features, nature and the ways they
interact and change
◉ Social Science.
Answer: The study of social features of humans and the ways they
interact and change.
◉ Theory.
, Answer: set of statements that seek to explain problems, actions or
behaviors.
◉ symbolic interactionism.
Answer: (G.H Mead) emphasizes the role of symbols and language as
core elements of all human interaction.
◉ Symbol.
Answer: One item used to stand for or represent another.
◉ functionalism.
Answer: the notion that social events can best be explained in terms
of the functions they perform- that is the contributions they make to
the community of a society.
◉ manifest functions.
Answer: the functions of a particular social activity that are known
to and intended by the individuals involved in the activity
◉ latent functions.
Answer: Functional consequences that are not intended or
recognized by the members of a social system in which they occur
