SOCIETY THE BASICS EXAMINATION TEST
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
●● When people and place meet what is created?
Answer: A way of life, also known as culture.
●● What five components define culture?
Answer: Symbols, Beliefs, Values, Behaviors/Norms, and Artifacts.
●● What events started communication, people gathering, and society?
Answer: Fire, agriculture, and manufacturing.
●● What does empirical mean?
Answer: It means that it is measurable, verifiable, and/or based on fact.
●● Who started the subject of sociology?
Answer: August Conte, who decided to use science to explain
sociological phenomena.
●● What does quantitive mean?
Answer: Something that can be measured physically. Quantity over
quality. Weight, time, measurements.
, ●● What does qualitative mean?
Answer: Measuring something by it's interpretation. Quality over
quantity. Perceptions.
●● What is the structural-functional approach?
Answer: Seeing through the lens that society is a complex system whose
parts work together as a whole.
●● What is social structure? Also known as cultural patterns.
Answer: A stable pattern of social behaviors. Anything that is repeated
socially that has meaning attached to it.
●● What is a social function?
Answer: How social structures tie us all together. The effect of cultural
patterns.
●● What is a manifest function?
Answer: The intended and recognized results of any social pattern.
●● What is a latent function?
Answer: The unintended and unrecognized results of any social pattern.
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
●● When people and place meet what is created?
Answer: A way of life, also known as culture.
●● What five components define culture?
Answer: Symbols, Beliefs, Values, Behaviors/Norms, and Artifacts.
●● What events started communication, people gathering, and society?
Answer: Fire, agriculture, and manufacturing.
●● What does empirical mean?
Answer: It means that it is measurable, verifiable, and/or based on fact.
●● Who started the subject of sociology?
Answer: August Conte, who decided to use science to explain
sociological phenomena.
●● What does quantitive mean?
Answer: Something that can be measured physically. Quantity over
quality. Weight, time, measurements.
, ●● What does qualitative mean?
Answer: Measuring something by it's interpretation. Quality over
quantity. Perceptions.
●● What is the structural-functional approach?
Answer: Seeing through the lens that society is a complex system whose
parts work together as a whole.
●● What is social structure? Also known as cultural patterns.
Answer: A stable pattern of social behaviors. Anything that is repeated
socially that has meaning attached to it.
●● What is a social function?
Answer: How social structures tie us all together. The effect of cultural
patterns.
●● What is a manifest function?
Answer: The intended and recognized results of any social pattern.
●● What is a latent function?
Answer: The unintended and unrecognized results of any social pattern.
