SOC 202 FINAL-QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Sociology of Education - ✔✔Examines formal education and schooling in industrial societies
Education - ✔✔The social institution responsible for the systematic transmission of
knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized structure
Family - ✔✔A group of people who take responsibility for meeting each other's needs
Functions of the Family - ✔✔Regulating sexual behavior, patterning reproduction, organizing
production and consumption, socializing children, providing care and protection, and providing
social identity
Nuclear Family - ✔✔Most basic family form; compromised of a married couple and their
children
Extended Family - ✔✔Nuclear family plus additional generation (ex. aunts, uncles,
grandparents) all living in the same household
Monogamous Marriages - ✔✔Marriage pattern that involves one male and one female
Polygamous Marriages - ✔✔Marriage pattern that involves one individual of one sex and
two or more of the other sex
Polygyny - ✔✔Subform of polygamous marriages that involves one central male who is
married to two or more females (Iran, Egypt, Sudan, and India)
, Polyandry - ✔✔Subform of polygamous marriages that in involves one central female who is
married to two or more males (Tibet, Nepal, and some parts of China)
Polyamory - ✔✔Practice of having multiple romantic relationships with all parties having full
knowledge and consent (not related to marriage)
Single - ✔✔Person not in a committed relationship, partnership, or union
Patriarchal Authority Structure - ✔✔Major affairs of the family are dominated and controlled
by men
Matriarchal Authority Structure - ✔✔Major affairs of the family are dominated and
controlled by women
Bilateral Authority Structure - ✔✔Power is shared between both men and women
Rules of Endogamy - ✔✔Stipulates that an individual must marry within certain social groups
(such as social class or race)
Rules of Exogamy - ✔✔Stipulates that one must marry outside of certain social categories
(such as one's own family or sex)
Homogamy - ✔✔The tendency for someone to marry someone similar to themselves
Functionalist View of Education - ✔✔Compulsory education contributes to socialization and
economic development
Conflict Theorist View of Education - ✔✔Education functions can create and justify
inequality
ANSWERS
Sociology of Education - ✔✔Examines formal education and schooling in industrial societies
Education - ✔✔The social institution responsible for the systematic transmission of
knowledge, skills, and cultural values within a formally organized structure
Family - ✔✔A group of people who take responsibility for meeting each other's needs
Functions of the Family - ✔✔Regulating sexual behavior, patterning reproduction, organizing
production and consumption, socializing children, providing care and protection, and providing
social identity
Nuclear Family - ✔✔Most basic family form; compromised of a married couple and their
children
Extended Family - ✔✔Nuclear family plus additional generation (ex. aunts, uncles,
grandparents) all living in the same household
Monogamous Marriages - ✔✔Marriage pattern that involves one male and one female
Polygamous Marriages - ✔✔Marriage pattern that involves one individual of one sex and
two or more of the other sex
Polygyny - ✔✔Subform of polygamous marriages that involves one central male who is
married to two or more females (Iran, Egypt, Sudan, and India)
, Polyandry - ✔✔Subform of polygamous marriages that in involves one central female who is
married to two or more males (Tibet, Nepal, and some parts of China)
Polyamory - ✔✔Practice of having multiple romantic relationships with all parties having full
knowledge and consent (not related to marriage)
Single - ✔✔Person not in a committed relationship, partnership, or union
Patriarchal Authority Structure - ✔✔Major affairs of the family are dominated and controlled
by men
Matriarchal Authority Structure - ✔✔Major affairs of the family are dominated and
controlled by women
Bilateral Authority Structure - ✔✔Power is shared between both men and women
Rules of Endogamy - ✔✔Stipulates that an individual must marry within certain social groups
(such as social class or race)
Rules of Exogamy - ✔✔Stipulates that one must marry outside of certain social categories
(such as one's own family or sex)
Homogamy - ✔✔The tendency for someone to marry someone similar to themselves
Functionalist View of Education - ✔✔Compulsory education contributes to socialization and
economic development
Conflict Theorist View of Education - ✔✔Education functions can create and justify
inequality
