SOCIAL PROBLEMS CONTINUITY AND
CHANGE BARKAN PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ status.
Answer: a position that a person occupies within a social group
◉ ascribed status.
Answer: a status that society assigns to an individual on the basis of
factors over which the individual has no control (e.g., race)
◉ achieved status.
Answer: a status that society assigns to an individual on the basis of
factors over which the individual has some control (e.g., high school
graduate)
◉ roles.
Answer: the set of rights, obligations, and expectations associated
with a status.
◉ culture.
, Answer: the meanings and ways of life that characterize a society,
including beliefs, values, norms, sanctions, and symbols.
◉ beliefs.
Answer: definitions and explanations about what is assumed to be
true
◉ values.
Answer: social agreements about what is considered good or bad,
right and wrong, desirable and undesirable.
◉ norms.
Answer: socially defined rules of behavior, including folkways,
mores, and laws.
◉ sanctions.
Answer: social consequences for conforming to or violating norms
◉ symbol.
Answer: something that represents something else
◉ sociological imagination.
CHANGE BARKAN PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED SOLUTIONS
◉ status.
Answer: a position that a person occupies within a social group
◉ ascribed status.
Answer: a status that society assigns to an individual on the basis of
factors over which the individual has no control (e.g., race)
◉ achieved status.
Answer: a status that society assigns to an individual on the basis of
factors over which the individual has some control (e.g., high school
graduate)
◉ roles.
Answer: the set of rights, obligations, and expectations associated
with a status.
◉ culture.
, Answer: the meanings and ways of life that characterize a society,
including beliefs, values, norms, sanctions, and symbols.
◉ beliefs.
Answer: definitions and explanations about what is assumed to be
true
◉ values.
Answer: social agreements about what is considered good or bad,
right and wrong, desirable and undesirable.
◉ norms.
Answer: socially defined rules of behavior, including folkways,
mores, and laws.
◉ sanctions.
Answer: social consequences for conforming to or violating norms
◉ symbol.
Answer: something that represents something else
◉ sociological imagination.
