WGU ACADEMY INTRO TO SOCIOLOGY FINAL EXAM
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Which sociological perspective suggests that the term medicalization of society refers to the
growing role of medicine as a major institution of social control?
Select one:
a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. labeling perspective
Answer:
conflict perspective
Question:
2. Which of the following factors has contributed to the rise in the cost of healthcare in the United
States?
Select one:
a. The system is highly efficient.
b. Health care is profit-driven.
c. The young population is consuming less health care
that previously thought.
d. Pharmaceutical companies are developing generic,
low-cost prescription drugs
Answer:
Health care is profit-driven
Question:
3. In most states in the U.S., an individual is not permit-ted to marry a parent, a sibling, an aunt or an
uncle, a grandparent, or a first or second cousin. These rules reflect our societal emphasis on
Select one:
a. the incest taboo.
b. endogamy.
c. exogamy.
d. homogamy.
Answer:
the incest taboo
Question:
4. What is the general term for a marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives
at the same time?
Select one:
a. monogamy
b. polygamy
c. polygyny
d. polyandry
,Answer:
polygamy
Question:
5. Which of the following would be an example of a man "redoing" traditional gender?
Select one: a. fist fighting in public
b. organizing a birthday lunch at work
c. not crying when hurt
d. carrying lots of heavy items
Answer:
organizing a birthday lunch at work
Question:
6. In Immanuel Wallerstein's view, the global economic system is divided between nations that
control wealth and nations from which resources are taken. This view is referred to as
Select one:
a. neocolonialism.
b. colonialism.
c. world systems analysis.
d. the world exploitation model
Answer:
world systems analysis
Question:
7. The failure of various government intelligence-gath-ering organizations to detect the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001, illustrates which poorly function-ing aspect of government
bureaucracy?
Select one:
a. division of labor
b. hierarchy of authority
c. impersonality
d. employment based on technical qualifications
Answer:
division of labor
Question:
8. Invention is the
Select one:
a. combination of existing cultural items into a form
that did not previously exist.
b. process of introducing new elements into a culture.
c. process of making known or sharing the existence
of an aspect of reality.
d. process by which a cultural item is spread from
group to group or society to society.
Answer:
combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously ex-ist
, Question:
9. Trying to understand why your roommate prefers a certain genre of music, over others, is an
example of using one's
Select one:
a. cultural capital.
b. conflict perspective.
c. double consciousness.
d. sociological imagination
Answer:
sociological imagination
Question:
10. A study of divorce rates among the populations of Canada, England, the U.S., and France, is an
example of
Select one:
a. alienation.
b. anomie.
c. microsociology.
d. macrosociology
Answer:
macrosociology
Question:
11. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of
class strug-gles.... The ________ have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!"
Select one:
a. bourgeoisie
b. proletarians
c. Vulcans
d. middle classes
Answer:
proletarians
Question:
12. Émile Durkheim's explanation of suicide was scientific because he
Select one:
a. developed conclusions based on a systematic exam-
ination of data. b. carefully studied the personalities of hundreds of suicide victims.
c. worked in a university setting.
d. divided suicide into four distinctive categories.
Answer:
developed conclusions based on a systematic ex-amination of data.
Question:
13. In Karl Marx's analysis, society was fundamentally di-vided between
Select one:
a. separate genders that clash in pursuit of their own
UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Which sociological perspective suggests that the term medicalization of society refers to the
growing role of medicine as a major institution of social control?
Select one:
a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. labeling perspective
Answer:
conflict perspective
Question:
2. Which of the following factors has contributed to the rise in the cost of healthcare in the United
States?
Select one:
a. The system is highly efficient.
b. Health care is profit-driven.
c. The young population is consuming less health care
that previously thought.
d. Pharmaceutical companies are developing generic,
low-cost prescription drugs
Answer:
Health care is profit-driven
Question:
3. In most states in the U.S., an individual is not permit-ted to marry a parent, a sibling, an aunt or an
uncle, a grandparent, or a first or second cousin. These rules reflect our societal emphasis on
Select one:
a. the incest taboo.
b. endogamy.
c. exogamy.
d. homogamy.
Answer:
the incest taboo
Question:
4. What is the general term for a marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives
at the same time?
Select one:
a. monogamy
b. polygamy
c. polygyny
d. polyandry
,Answer:
polygamy
Question:
5. Which of the following would be an example of a man "redoing" traditional gender?
Select one: a. fist fighting in public
b. organizing a birthday lunch at work
c. not crying when hurt
d. carrying lots of heavy items
Answer:
organizing a birthday lunch at work
Question:
6. In Immanuel Wallerstein's view, the global economic system is divided between nations that
control wealth and nations from which resources are taken. This view is referred to as
Select one:
a. neocolonialism.
b. colonialism.
c. world systems analysis.
d. the world exploitation model
Answer:
world systems analysis
Question:
7. The failure of various government intelligence-gath-ering organizations to detect the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001, illustrates which poorly function-ing aspect of government
bureaucracy?
Select one:
a. division of labor
b. hierarchy of authority
c. impersonality
d. employment based on technical qualifications
Answer:
division of labor
Question:
8. Invention is the
Select one:
a. combination of existing cultural items into a form
that did not previously exist.
b. process of introducing new elements into a culture.
c. process of making known or sharing the existence
of an aspect of reality.
d. process by which a cultural item is spread from
group to group or society to society.
Answer:
combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously ex-ist
, Question:
9. Trying to understand why your roommate prefers a certain genre of music, over others, is an
example of using one's
Select one:
a. cultural capital.
b. conflict perspective.
c. double consciousness.
d. sociological imagination
Answer:
sociological imagination
Question:
10. A study of divorce rates among the populations of Canada, England, the U.S., and France, is an
example of
Select one:
a. alienation.
b. anomie.
c. microsociology.
d. macrosociology
Answer:
macrosociology
Question:
11. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of
class strug-gles.... The ________ have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!"
Select one:
a. bourgeoisie
b. proletarians
c. Vulcans
d. middle classes
Answer:
proletarians
Question:
12. Émile Durkheim's explanation of suicide was scientific because he
Select one:
a. developed conclusions based on a systematic exam-
ination of data. b. carefully studied the personalities of hundreds of suicide victims.
c. worked in a university setting.
d. divided suicide into four distinctive categories.
Answer:
developed conclusions based on a systematic ex-amination of data.
Question:
13. In Karl Marx's analysis, society was fundamentally di-vided between
Select one:
a. separate genders that clash in pursuit of their own
