Soc 1305 Midterm Questions and answers Newest RATED A+ 2025/2026

Soc 1305 Midterm Questions and answers Newest
RATED A+ 2025/2026
Human Population Trends - Correct Answers What makes the population change (Fertility,
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mortality, urbanization, etc)
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Il` Demography - Correct Answers a sub field of sociology that examines population size Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il`




Il` composition and distribution composition (age, education, race distribution) Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il`




Il` Population - Correct Answers all the inhabitants of a town or particular area Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il`




Il` Fertility - Correct Answers how many babies are being born
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Low: Japan, wester Europe Il` Il` Il`




M: US, India, Mexico,Egypt
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H: Pakistan, Nigeria,Ethiopia
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Il` Mortality - Correct Answers death rates, higher in developing countries
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Il` Migration - Correct Answers push and pull factors (pushed out of their country/ pulled in by
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Push: Syrian Refugees Il` Il`




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Il` The Malthusian Perspective - Correct Answers the power of population is infinitely greater than
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Il` the power of Earth to produce subsistence for men (population growth > food supply = screwed)
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Il` The Marxist Perspective - Correct Answers capitalism --> technology
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, technology --> faster/ better food production BUT leads to overpopulation, labor exploitation,
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poverty because the wealthy capitalist have all the resources and wages
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Il` Demographic Transition Theory - Correct Answers shift in birth rates and death rates (high birth Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il`




Il` and death rates to low birth and death rates)
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Il` Society - Correct Answers a large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory
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Il` and its subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations
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Il` Culture - Correct Answers knowledge, language, values, and customers passed down from one
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Il` Differences between sociology and other academic disciplines - Correct Answers sociology is
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Il` not economics, history, psychology, statistics, race, class, political science etc.
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Il` sociology (Definition) - Correct Answers study of social life and FORCES that shape us, study of
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Il` human behavior, 1/2 art 1/2 science
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qualitative vs quanitative - Correct Answers qualitative- non numeric assessment of
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observations
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quantitative- the numerical representation of observations Il` Il` Il` Il` Il`




Il` Ethnography/participant observation - Correct Answers cultural interpretation, looks at Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il` Il`




Il` detailed in depth descriptive everyday life and practice// the observer involves themselves to
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Il` learn more about others
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Il` controlled experiment - Correct Answers only one variable is being tested. only the independent
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