SOC 200 REVISION EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔According to the social-conflict approach, deviance has a number of functions for
the operation of society as a whole - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Corporate crime refers to stealing or other crimes that are committed against a
corporation or other large business - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔organized crime refers to supplying legal goods and services at below market prices
- ✔✔FALSE
✔✔feminist theory claims that women, compared to men, are subject to greater social
control - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔in general, people of higher social class position are less likely to be arrested for
street crimes than people of lower class positions - ✔✔true
✔✔deterrence is the attempt to discourage criminality through punishment - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔societal protection is rendering an offender incapable of further offenses temporarily
through incarceration or permanently by execution - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔In the United States, even though the crime rate has gone down in recent years, the
number of people in prison has gone up - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔The United States is the only Western, high-income nation that routinely imposes
the death penalty on convicted offenders - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Probation and parole are two types of community-based corrections - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Whether people respond to deviance as a moral issue or a medical matter affects
whether the person is subjected to punishment or treatment - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔The term the "Mcdonaldization" refers to how the principles of the fast-food
restaurants have come to dominate all areas of American Society - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔the panoptic surveillance is a form of constant indirect monitoring - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔when it comes to technology, a functionalist would focus on the digital divide
between the haves and have nots. - ✔✔FALSE
, ✔✔The Luddites tend to be more pro-technology - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔A media oligopoly is when few firms dominate the media marketplace - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Homogenization creates so many choices people increasingly customize their news
experience - ✔✔False
✔✔A in-group is a type of social group that commands a member's esteem and loyal -
✔✔True
✔✔Expressive leadership emphasizes that completion of tasks - ✔✔False
✔✔Asch's experiment in group conformity showed that most people would not
compromise their personal judgement in order to avoid being seen as different -
✔✔False
✔✔Milgram's experiment showed that people are easily influenced by both "ordinary
people" and legitimate authority figures - ✔✔True
✔✔Fragmentation is receiving the same sources, stories, and messages with only slight
variances - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔Planned obsolescence is technology that's built on to become obsolete or unusable.
- ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Social networking sites, blogs, podcasts, wikis, and virtual worlds (stimulated
environs) are examples of new media - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔The principle that all internet data should be treated equally by internet service
providers is known as the knowledge gap - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔The ability to sort through, interpret, and process digital knowledge is the knowledge
gap - ✔✔fALSE
✔✔The digital divide is class-based differences in access to technology - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Technology is the application of science to address the problems of daily life to
accomplish a function - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔The evolutionary model of technological change notes that a breakthrough in one
form of technology leads to a number of variances - ✔✔TRUE
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔According to the social-conflict approach, deviance has a number of functions for
the operation of society as a whole - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Corporate crime refers to stealing or other crimes that are committed against a
corporation or other large business - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔organized crime refers to supplying legal goods and services at below market prices
- ✔✔FALSE
✔✔feminist theory claims that women, compared to men, are subject to greater social
control - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔in general, people of higher social class position are less likely to be arrested for
street crimes than people of lower class positions - ✔✔true
✔✔deterrence is the attempt to discourage criminality through punishment - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔societal protection is rendering an offender incapable of further offenses temporarily
through incarceration or permanently by execution - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔In the United States, even though the crime rate has gone down in recent years, the
number of people in prison has gone up - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔The United States is the only Western, high-income nation that routinely imposes
the death penalty on convicted offenders - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Probation and parole are two types of community-based corrections - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Whether people respond to deviance as a moral issue or a medical matter affects
whether the person is subjected to punishment or treatment - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔The term the "Mcdonaldization" refers to how the principles of the fast-food
restaurants have come to dominate all areas of American Society - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔the panoptic surveillance is a form of constant indirect monitoring - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔when it comes to technology, a functionalist would focus on the digital divide
between the haves and have nots. - ✔✔FALSE
, ✔✔The Luddites tend to be more pro-technology - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔A media oligopoly is when few firms dominate the media marketplace - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Homogenization creates so many choices people increasingly customize their news
experience - ✔✔False
✔✔A in-group is a type of social group that commands a member's esteem and loyal -
✔✔True
✔✔Expressive leadership emphasizes that completion of tasks - ✔✔False
✔✔Asch's experiment in group conformity showed that most people would not
compromise their personal judgement in order to avoid being seen as different -
✔✔False
✔✔Milgram's experiment showed that people are easily influenced by both "ordinary
people" and legitimate authority figures - ✔✔True
✔✔Fragmentation is receiving the same sources, stories, and messages with only slight
variances - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔Planned obsolescence is technology that's built on to become obsolete or unusable.
- ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Social networking sites, blogs, podcasts, wikis, and virtual worlds (stimulated
environs) are examples of new media - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔The principle that all internet data should be treated equally by internet service
providers is known as the knowledge gap - ✔✔FALSE
✔✔The ability to sort through, interpret, and process digital knowledge is the knowledge
gap - ✔✔fALSE
✔✔The digital divide is class-based differences in access to technology - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔Technology is the application of science to address the problems of daily life to
accomplish a function - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔The evolutionary model of technological change notes that a breakthrough in one
form of technology leads to a number of variances - ✔✔TRUE
