IAAO 102 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026
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The social consequence of the digital age is ......ANSWER........the
spread of ideas, values, and beliefs to be transmitted faster
than ever before.
Sociology is an art and a science. The art of sociology is based
on the creative ways we communicate with each other. The
science of sociology is based on ......ANSWER........theory and
research
The two events that caused social change and spurred on the
study of Sociology were urbanization and ......ANSWER........The
Industrial Revolution
,age 2 of 44
No theory is totally objective. It is based on
......ANSWER........Worldview
Karl Marx, who witnessed the Industrial Revolution was the
father of Structural Functional theory. ......ANSWER........False
Which of the following is Not part of C. Wright Mills
paradigms? ......ANSWER........Total Institutions
Which of the following theoretical perspective would view
television and movies as a form of big business in which profits
are more important than the equality of the product or the
individual; and which used to keep those in power in place?
......ANSWER........Conflict
Sociology is the of human and association and how it over time.
......ANSWER........scientific study, social behavior, changes
,age 3 of 44
Which sociological perspective stresses that society is a whole
unit, made up of interrelated parts that together harmoniously?
......ANSWER........Structural functional analysis
Methods of collecting research data include .
......ANSWER........all of the above
At the core of sociological research is the scientific research
method. ......ANSWER........True
Every group has its own normative order that determines the
group orientation. When a person departs significantly from the
group orientation and engages in deviant behavior, he or she
risks what is called a ......ANSWER........sanction
Deviance is defined as behavior that departs significantly from
cultural norms. ......ANSWER........true
, age 4 of 44
Goffman's concept- Total Institutions- are places such as prisons
that separate the person from society. This leads to the social
self eroding and the individual's identity becoming defined by
the nature of total institution. The process of the eroding of the
social self is called: ......ANSWER........Mortification of Self
Sociologist Robert Merton's Strain Theory indicates five modes of
adaptation: Conformity, Ritualism, Retreatism, and Rebellion.
Select the mode of adaptation not given.
......ANSWER........Innovation
What term did Durkheim use to describe a weakened
acceptance of norms? ......ANSWER........anomie
Human society is held together by a social order.
......ANSWER........True