SOC 100 Exam 1 UIUC Questions With
Correct Answers
What is sociology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•The scientific study of
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human behavior, social groups, and society.
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•The study of human society and social life and the social causes and
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consequences of human behavior. | | |
What is the sociological imagination? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The
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ability to connect one's personal experiences to society at large and
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greater historical forces. Using our sociological imagination allows us to
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"make the familiar strange" or to question habits or customs that seem
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natural to us. | |
What is a sociological institution? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•A group of
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social positions, connected by social relations, that perform a social
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role. |
•Ex: The legal system, the labor market, language itself all have a great
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influence on our behavior and are constantly changing.
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,Functionalist Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•The theory that societies
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contain certain interdependent structures, each of which performs
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certain functions for the maintenance of society.
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•Institutions are understand by the functions they perform for society
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as a whole.
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•Ex: -Families- control sexual behavior and raise children to become
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functioning adults. |
| -Education- trains young people to become productive adults
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a) Babysit kids while their parents work
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b) Keeps young people off the job market
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Conflict Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•A theory that views conflict as
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inevitable and natural and as a significant cause of social change.
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•Ex: Education- a site of intense values conflict
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-Sorts people into groups
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-Certifies people with credentials as "reliable"
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Interactionist Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•Stresses interactions
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between people and the social processes that occur within the
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individual that are made possible by language and internalized meaning.
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•Focuses on everyday life rather than larger structures of society.
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, •Ex: Professors teach, lecture, and give tests
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-students take notes | |
Feminist Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•A sociological perspective
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that emphasizes the centrality of gender in analyzing the social world
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and particularly the uniqueness of the experience of women.
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Evolutionary Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•A theory of social
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development that suggests that societies, like biological organisms,
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progress through stages of increasing complexity.
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•Ex: technology, population growth, food and production of land, legal
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systems, freedom |
Exchange Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•A theory of interaction that
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attempts to explain social behavior in terms of reciprocity of costs and
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rewards. |
•Ex: work, gifts, money, affection, and ideas- all offered in the hopes of
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getting something in return.
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What is the sociological perspective? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•A way of
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looking at society and social behavior that involves questioning the
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Correct Answers
What is sociology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•The scientific study of
| | | | | | | | |
human behavior, social groups, and society.
| | | | | |
•The study of human society and social life and the social causes and
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
consequences of human behavior. | | |
What is the sociological imagination? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The
| | | | | | | |
ability to connect one's personal experiences to society at large and
| | | | | | | | | | |
greater historical forces. Using our sociological imagination allows us to
| | | | | | | | |
"make the familiar strange" or to question habits or customs that seem
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
natural to us. | |
What is a sociological institution? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•A group of
| | | | | | | | | |
social positions, connected by social relations, that perform a social
| | | | | | | | | |
role. |
•Ex: The legal system, the labor market, language itself all have a great
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
influence on our behavior and are constantly changing.
| | | | | | |
,Functionalist Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•The theory that societies
| | | | | | |
contain certain interdependent structures, each of which performs
| | | | | | | | |
certain functions for the maintenance of society.
| | | | | | |
•Institutions are understand by the functions they perform for society
| | | | | | | | | |
as a whole.
| | |
•Ex: -Families- control sexual behavior and raise children to become
| | | | | | | | | |
functioning adults. |
| -Education- trains young people to become productive adults
| | | | | | | |
a) Babysit kids while their parents work
| | | | | |
b) Keeps young people off the job market
| | | | | | |
Conflict Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•A theory that views conflict as
| | | | | | | | |
inevitable and natural and as a significant cause of social change.
| | | | | | | | | | |
•Ex: Education- a site of intense values conflict
| | | | | | | |
-Sorts people into groups
| | |
-Certifies people with credentials as "reliable"
| | | | |
Interactionist Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•Stresses interactions
| | | | | |
between people and the social processes that occur within the
| | | | | | | | | |
individual that are made possible by language and internalized meaning.
| | | | | | | | |
|
•Focuses on everyday life rather than larger structures of society.
| | | | | | | | |
, •Ex: Professors teach, lecture, and give tests
| | | | | |
-students take notes | |
Feminist Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•A sociological perspective
| | | | | | |
that emphasizes the centrality of gender in analyzing the social world
| | | | | | | | | | |
and particularly the uniqueness of the experience of women.
| | | | | | | |
Evolutionary Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•A theory of social
| | | | | | | |
development that suggests that societies, like biological organisms,
| | | | | | | |
progress through stages of increasing complexity.
| | | | | |
•Ex: technology, population growth, food and production of land, legal
| | | | | | | | | |
systems, freedom |
Exchange Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•A theory of interaction that
| | | | | | | | |
attempts to explain social behavior in terms of reciprocity of costs and
| | | | | | | | | | | |
rewards. |
•Ex: work, gifts, money, affection, and ideas- all offered in the hopes of
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
getting something in return.
| | |
What is the sociological perspective? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-•A way of
| | | | | | | | |
looking at society and social behavior that involves questioning the
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