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SOCY 275 Exam Bank Questions With
Revised Answers
Social Function - answers✔✔Consequences for the operation of society as a whole.
Structural Functionalism - answers✔✔A framework for building theory that sees society as a
complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.
Organic Model - answers✔✔If change occurs in the environment, society responds
adaptively to protect itself or even improve its well-being.
Cybernetic Model - answers✔✔Society is a homeostatic, self-regulating system that (as long
as it's healthy) maintains a balance (equilibrium) of its internal parts in the face of a changing
environment.
Functional Requirements - answers✔✔Each social system, if it's to survive, must adapt to its
external environment, meet some basic goals, maintain a minimum level of integration, and
replace its member over time.
Anomic - answers✔✔(Or anomia) state of structural strain between the almost universal
cultural goals of American Dream and much more restricted institutionalized means for
achieving them.
Merton's Theory of Anomia - answers✔✔Models of Individual Adaptation.
General Strain Theory (GST) - answers✔✔Argues that strain contributes to motivation to
offend.
Classical Strain Theory (CST) - answers✔✔Predicts that deviance is more likely to occur if
one's culturally determined aspirations for monetary success and opportunity to achieve that
success are not congruent.
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Social Institutions - answers✔✔Relatively stable patterns of interaction between actors
whose roles in system are governed by internalized norms and expectations.
Conformist - answers✔✔Isn't deviant. Many people will aspire to cultural goals and utilize
conventional means to try and obtain.
Innovator - answers✔✔Aspires to cultural goals that uses illegal means to reach them.
Ritualist - answers✔✔Person doesn't aspire to cultural goals.
Retocatist - answers✔✔Moved away from striving for cultural goal. Unlike ritualist, reject
stringent adherence to conventional means. Withdraw from society. Most likely to use drugs
and alcohol.
Rebel - answers✔✔Rejection of both cultural goals and cultural means.
Institutions - answers✔✔Relatively stable sets of norms, values, statuses, roles, groups, and
organizations that regulate human conduct to meet basic needs of society.
Objective Strains - answers✔✔Experiences that most people would find to be a strain.
Subjective Strains - answers✔✔Way people actually experience objective strains. Some
people don't interpret certain things as negative or negative to the same degree as other
people.
Experienced Strain - answers✔✔Situation where individual has experienced negative event.
Anticipated Strain - answers✔✔Situation where individual hasn't experienced event but
expects event in future.
Vicarous Strain - answers✔✔Situation where individual hasn't experienced event, but
witnessed, or heard of others experiencing event.
21/11/2024 1:31PM
SOCY 275 Exam Bank Questions With
Revised Answers
Social Function - answers✔✔Consequences for the operation of society as a whole.
Structural Functionalism - answers✔✔A framework for building theory that sees society as a
complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.
Organic Model - answers✔✔If change occurs in the environment, society responds
adaptively to protect itself or even improve its well-being.
Cybernetic Model - answers✔✔Society is a homeostatic, self-regulating system that (as long
as it's healthy) maintains a balance (equilibrium) of its internal parts in the face of a changing
environment.
Functional Requirements - answers✔✔Each social system, if it's to survive, must adapt to its
external environment, meet some basic goals, maintain a minimum level of integration, and
replace its member over time.
Anomic - answers✔✔(Or anomia) state of structural strain between the almost universal
cultural goals of American Dream and much more restricted institutionalized means for
achieving them.
Merton's Theory of Anomia - answers✔✔Models of Individual Adaptation.
General Strain Theory (GST) - answers✔✔Argues that strain contributes to motivation to
offend.
Classical Strain Theory (CST) - answers✔✔Predicts that deviance is more likely to occur if
one's culturally determined aspirations for monetary success and opportunity to achieve that
success are not congruent.
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Social Institutions - answers✔✔Relatively stable patterns of interaction between actors
whose roles in system are governed by internalized norms and expectations.
Conformist - answers✔✔Isn't deviant. Many people will aspire to cultural goals and utilize
conventional means to try and obtain.
Innovator - answers✔✔Aspires to cultural goals that uses illegal means to reach them.
Ritualist - answers✔✔Person doesn't aspire to cultural goals.
Retocatist - answers✔✔Moved away from striving for cultural goal. Unlike ritualist, reject
stringent adherence to conventional means. Withdraw from society. Most likely to use drugs
and alcohol.
Rebel - answers✔✔Rejection of both cultural goals and cultural means.
Institutions - answers✔✔Relatively stable sets of norms, values, statuses, roles, groups, and
organizations that regulate human conduct to meet basic needs of society.
Objective Strains - answers✔✔Experiences that most people would find to be a strain.
Subjective Strains - answers✔✔Way people actually experience objective strains. Some
people don't interpret certain things as negative or negative to the same degree as other
people.
Experienced Strain - answers✔✔Situation where individual has experienced negative event.
Anticipated Strain - answers✔✔Situation where individual hasn't experienced event but
expects event in future.
Vicarous Strain - answers✔✔Situation where individual hasn't experienced event, but
witnessed, or heard of others experiencing event.
