SYG 2000 UCF EXAM 1 LATEST 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
Sociology - (answer) The study of society and human interaction with society
Sociology Seeks to understand - (answer) General human behavior, social relationships and social
institutions
Sociological Imagination - (answer) The ability to grasp the relationship between individual lives and
the larger social forces that shape them. Put things into context, personal beliefs aside, be objective.
Agency - (answer) ability for an individual to exercise free will
Structure - (answer) patterned social arrangements that effect agency (ex: a woman's place is in the
home)
4 Interrelated historical developments in sociological thinking - (answer) Scientific revolution, the
enlightenment, industrial revolution, urbanization
Anomie - (answer) When you don't know the social norms and get stressed/confused
Functionalism - (answer) How people should come together to avoid anomie
Auguste Comte - (answer) Coined the term "sociology" and created the idea of positivism (knowledge
gained from scientific fact and reasoning)
Harriet Martineau - (answer) First female sociologist, said we need to focus on underrepresented
groups to ensure social justice
Max Weber - (answer) Bureaucracies, first person to talk about capitalism
Karl Marx - (answer) Conflict, economic and political thinker, thought powerful people should exploit
less powerful for personal benefit and to keep power
, SYG 2000 UCF EXAM 1 LATEST 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
Emile Durkheim - (answer) Pioneered methodology, ideas of suicide, looked at mechanical and organic
bonds
Mechanical Bonds - (answer) Bonds created because of similarity
Organic Bonds - (answer) Bonds based on specialization and independence
Robert Ezra Park - (answer) Pioneer of urban sociology, the chicago school
WEB Dubois - (answer) African American male, talked about racial stigma, double consciousness,
aware that they are a different race but more aware that they are americans
Robert Merton - (answer) First person to come up with theory of deviance, created middle range
theories
C. Wright Mills - (answer) Founded the Hull House and was the first to study neighborhoods
Functionalism - (answer) Theory that everything in society has a function, everything serves a purpose,
if it doesn't serve a function it will go away
Durkheim - (answer) Talked about function of deviance, normal vs. abnormal
Parsons - (answer) First to focus on gender role differences
Conflict Theory - (answer) Asks who benefits? Who loses? What makes people different that divides
them?
ANSWERS
Sociology - (answer) The study of society and human interaction with society
Sociology Seeks to understand - (answer) General human behavior, social relationships and social
institutions
Sociological Imagination - (answer) The ability to grasp the relationship between individual lives and
the larger social forces that shape them. Put things into context, personal beliefs aside, be objective.
Agency - (answer) ability for an individual to exercise free will
Structure - (answer) patterned social arrangements that effect agency (ex: a woman's place is in the
home)
4 Interrelated historical developments in sociological thinking - (answer) Scientific revolution, the
enlightenment, industrial revolution, urbanization
Anomie - (answer) When you don't know the social norms and get stressed/confused
Functionalism - (answer) How people should come together to avoid anomie
Auguste Comte - (answer) Coined the term "sociology" and created the idea of positivism (knowledge
gained from scientific fact and reasoning)
Harriet Martineau - (answer) First female sociologist, said we need to focus on underrepresented
groups to ensure social justice
Max Weber - (answer) Bureaucracies, first person to talk about capitalism
Karl Marx - (answer) Conflict, economic and political thinker, thought powerful people should exploit
less powerful for personal benefit and to keep power
, SYG 2000 UCF EXAM 1 LATEST 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
Emile Durkheim - (answer) Pioneered methodology, ideas of suicide, looked at mechanical and organic
bonds
Mechanical Bonds - (answer) Bonds created because of similarity
Organic Bonds - (answer) Bonds based on specialization and independence
Robert Ezra Park - (answer) Pioneer of urban sociology, the chicago school
WEB Dubois - (answer) African American male, talked about racial stigma, double consciousness,
aware that they are a different race but more aware that they are americans
Robert Merton - (answer) First person to come up with theory of deviance, created middle range
theories
C. Wright Mills - (answer) Founded the Hull House and was the first to study neighborhoods
Functionalism - (answer) Theory that everything in society has a function, everything serves a purpose,
if it doesn't serve a function it will go away
Durkheim - (answer) Talked about function of deviance, normal vs. abnormal
Parsons - (answer) First to focus on gender role differences
Conflict Theory - (answer) Asks who benefits? Who loses? What makes people different that divides
them?
