ESSENTIALS OF SOCIOLOGY PRACTICE
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED EXPLANATIONS
2026
◉ personal troubles.
Answer: Difficulties that are located in individual biographies and
their immediate milieu, a seemingly private experience
◉ public issues.
Answer: Difficulties or problems that are linked to the institutional
and historical possibilities of social structure
◉ sociological imagination.
Answer: The application of imaginative thought to the asking and
answering of sociological questions.
◉ structuration.
Answer: two-way process by which we shape our social world
through our individual actions and by which we are reshaped by
society
◉ social facts.
,Answer: according to Emile Durkheim, the aspects of social life that
shape our actions as individuals. He believed that social facts could
be studied scientifically
◉ organic solidarity.
Answer: according to Emile Durkheim, the social cohesion that
results from various parts of a society functioning as an integrated
whole.
◉ social constraint.
Answer: conditioning influence on our behavior by the groups and
societies of which we are members, regarded by Durkheim as one of
the distinctive properties of social facts
◉ Anomie.
Answer: concept first brought into usage in sociology by Durkheim,
referring to a situation in which social norms lose their hold over
individual behavior
◉ Materialist conception of history.
Answer: the view developed by Marx, according to which material or
economic factors have a prime role in determining historical
changes
, ◉ capitalism.
Answer: economic system based on the private ownership of wealth,
which is invested and reinvested in order to produce profit
◉ symbolic interactionism.
Answer: a theoretical approach in sociology developed by George
Herbert Mead that emphasizes the role of symbols and language as
core elements of all human interaction
◉ functionalism.
Answer: theoretical perspective based on the notion that social
events can best be explained in terms of the functions they perform-
that is the contributions they make to the continuity of society
◉ manifest functions.
Answer: 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 members of a social system in which they occur
◉ Marxism.
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED EXPLANATIONS
2026
◉ personal troubles.
Answer: Difficulties that are located in individual biographies and
their immediate milieu, a seemingly private experience
◉ public issues.
Answer: Difficulties or problems that are linked to the institutional
and historical possibilities of social structure
◉ sociological imagination.
Answer: The application of imaginative thought to the asking and
answering of sociological questions.
◉ structuration.
Answer: two-way process by which we shape our social world
through our individual actions and by which we are reshaped by
society
◉ social facts.
,Answer: according to Emile Durkheim, the aspects of social life that
shape our actions as individuals. He believed that social facts could
be studied scientifically
◉ organic solidarity.
Answer: according to Emile Durkheim, the social cohesion that
results from various parts of a society functioning as an integrated
whole.
◉ social constraint.
Answer: conditioning influence on our behavior by the groups and
societies of which we are members, regarded by Durkheim as one of
the distinctive properties of social facts
◉ Anomie.
Answer: concept first brought into usage in sociology by Durkheim,
referring to a situation in which social norms lose their hold over
individual behavior
◉ Materialist conception of history.
Answer: the view developed by Marx, according to which material or
economic factors have a prime role in determining historical
changes
, ◉ capitalism.
Answer: economic system based on the private ownership of wealth,
which is invested and reinvested in order to produce profit
◉ symbolic interactionism.
Answer: a theoretical approach in sociology developed by George
Herbert Mead that emphasizes the role of symbols and language as
core elements of all human interaction
◉ functionalism.
Answer: theoretical perspective based on the notion that social
events can best be explained in terms of the functions they perform-
that is the contributions they make to the continuity of society
◉ manifest functions.
Answer: 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 members of a social system in which they occur
◉ Marxism.
