SOCIOLOGY 101 STRAIGHTERLINE FINAL EXAM (COMPLETE) 2026 LATEST UPDATED QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
What is sociology ✔️the scientific study of social interactions and of social organizations
What is the functionalist perspective? ✔️A system is to survive where certain essential tasks are performed.
What happens to a functionalist system? ✔️If it fails to maintain it will perish.
What is a conflict perspective? ✔️Conflict theorists focus their attention on society as a whole, studying its institutions and structural
arrangements.
What is the interactionist perspective? ✔️It is more concerned with the micro or small-scale aspects of social life
Why would you use conflict, interactionist and functionalist perspectives together? ✔️By using all perspectives for full advantages.
What is socialization? ✔️A process of social interaction by which people acquire knowledge, attitudes, values and behavior essential for effective
participation in society.
What are agents of socialization? ✔️Family, peers, school and mass media
What is the sociological theory? ✔️A theory that emphasizes conditioning and observational theory
What is culture? ✔️Refers to a social heritage of people learning patterns for thinking, feeling and acting from one generation to the next.
What is society? ✔️Refer to a group of people within the same territory and share a common culture.
What does it mean to be culture in flux? ✔️Culture groups adapt in dynamic and unpredictable ways
Whats a subculture? ✔️Religious, racial, ethnic, occupational and age groups.
What is a counterculture? ✔️Rejects many of the behavioral standards and guideposts that hold in the dominant culture.
What is ethnocentrism? ✔️Judges the behavior of other groups by the standards of our own culture
What is a 'status' ✔️A position within a group or society
What is a 'role' ✔️A status carried with a set of culturally defined right and duties
What are social structures? ✔️roles, statuses, groups and institutions.
What are family structures? ✔️A way in which we define the family determines the kinds of family we consider to be normal or deviant.
What would be considered challenges to a family? ✔️Incest, family violence and child abuse.
Define government ✔️Political process that have to do with authoritative formulating of rules and policies.
What is totalitarianism ✔️Government takes control of all part of the society and all aspects of social life.
What is authoritarianism ✔️A political system in which government tolerates little or no opposition to its rule but permits nongovernmental
center of influence
What is democracy ✔️A political system in which the powers of government derive from the consent of the people.
What is a socialist economy? ✔️Government directly controls the economy
What is a capitalist economy? ✔️Government oversees and sets parameters for the economy
What is a political system? ✔️Political parties, interest group and mass media
What is a political party? ✔️organization designed to gain control of the government by putting its people in public office
What is an interest group? ✔️organization of people who share common concerns or points of view
What is sociology ✔️the scientific study of social interactions and of social organizations
What is the functionalist perspective? ✔️A system is to survive where certain essential tasks are performed.
What happens to a functionalist system? ✔️If it fails to maintain it will perish.
What is a conflict perspective? ✔️Conflict theorists focus their attention on society as a whole, studying its institutions and structural
arrangements.
What is the interactionist perspective? ✔️It is more concerned with the micro or small-scale aspects of social life
Why would you use conflict, interactionist and functionalist perspectives together? ✔️By using all perspectives for full advantages.
What is socialization? ✔️A process of social interaction by which people acquire knowledge, attitudes, values and behavior essential for effective
participation in society.
What are agents of socialization? ✔️Family, peers, school and mass media
What is the sociological theory? ✔️A theory that emphasizes conditioning and observational theory
What is culture? ✔️Refers to a social heritage of people learning patterns for thinking, feeling and acting from one generation to the next.
What is society? ✔️Refer to a group of people within the same territory and share a common culture.
What does it mean to be culture in flux? ✔️Culture groups adapt in dynamic and unpredictable ways
Whats a subculture? ✔️Religious, racial, ethnic, occupational and age groups.
What is a counterculture? ✔️Rejects many of the behavioral standards and guideposts that hold in the dominant culture.
What is ethnocentrism? ✔️Judges the behavior of other groups by the standards of our own culture
What is a 'status' ✔️A position within a group or society
What is a 'role' ✔️A status carried with a set of culturally defined right and duties
What are social structures? ✔️roles, statuses, groups and institutions.
What are family structures? ✔️A way in which we define the family determines the kinds of family we consider to be normal or deviant.
What would be considered challenges to a family? ✔️Incest, family violence and child abuse.
Define government ✔️Political process that have to do with authoritative formulating of rules and policies.
What is totalitarianism ✔️Government takes control of all part of the society and all aspects of social life.
What is authoritarianism ✔️A political system in which government tolerates little or no opposition to its rule but permits nongovernmental
center of influence
What is democracy ✔️A political system in which the powers of government derive from the consent of the people.
What is a socialist economy? ✔️Government directly controls the economy
What is a capitalist economy? ✔️Government oversees and sets parameters for the economy
What is a political system? ✔️Political parties, interest group and mass media
What is a political party? ✔️organization designed to gain control of the government by putting its people in public office
What is an interest group? ✔️organization of people who share common concerns or points of view
