SOC 202 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
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the sociological perspective - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the ability to sees societal
patterns that influence individual and group life; how we create and change
the social world
Sociological Imagination - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔book by C. Wright Mills; talks
about the ability to grasp the relationship between lives as individuals and
larger social forces, distinguishes individual and society but emphasizes
their interaction, one of the first important sociological books written
Key Themes in Sociological Research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Importance of
Diversity (See: Ethnocentrism), Inequality, and Globalization
Social Diversity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Refers to the variety of group experiences
that result from the social structure of society
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,Ethnocentrism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Evaluating or judging another culture
based on how it compares to one's own cultural norms. Attitude that one's
own culture is better than all others
Social inequality - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔socially-defined categories of people are
positioned differently regarding access to different social goods
Globalization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔social and economic systems all intertwined
with in the world, shows patterns in your society you might take for granted,
also events in one society may be linked to events in other societies
theoretical frameworks - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔functionalism, conflict, and
symbolic interaction
Functionalist Paradigm [macro level] - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Explains social
organization in terms of roles or "functions" performed by individual
members, groups, institutions, social relations. Society like a living
organism
Latent versus manifest functions. (Comte, Durkheim)
Conflict Paradigm [macro level] - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Explains social
organization and change in terms of conflict built into social relations.
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, All social relations characterized by conflict
Social class is the major engine of change. (Marx)
Symbolic Interaction Paradigm [micro level] - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Emphasizes
micro level social processes.
Assumptions: importance of interaction; importance of symbols- the way we
interact we use forms of symbols, hand gestures, eye contact speech
patterns.
Constructivism. (Weber, Goffman)
Macro-level vs micro-level theories - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔relate to large-scale
issues and large groups of people, while micro-level theories look at very
specific relationships between individuals or small groups.
Grand theories - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔attempt to explain large-scale
relationships and answer fundamental questions such as why societies
form and why they change.
Sociological theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔is constantly evolving and should
never be considered complete.
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the sociological perspective - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the ability to sees societal
patterns that influence individual and group life; how we create and change
the social world
Sociological Imagination - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔book by C. Wright Mills; talks
about the ability to grasp the relationship between lives as individuals and
larger social forces, distinguishes individual and society but emphasizes
their interaction, one of the first important sociological books written
Key Themes in Sociological Research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Importance of
Diversity (See: Ethnocentrism), Inequality, and Globalization
Social Diversity - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Refers to the variety of group experiences
that result from the social structure of society
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,Ethnocentrism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Evaluating or judging another culture
based on how it compares to one's own cultural norms. Attitude that one's
own culture is better than all others
Social inequality - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔socially-defined categories of people are
positioned differently regarding access to different social goods
Globalization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔social and economic systems all intertwined
with in the world, shows patterns in your society you might take for granted,
also events in one society may be linked to events in other societies
theoretical frameworks - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔functionalism, conflict, and
symbolic interaction
Functionalist Paradigm [macro level] - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Explains social
organization in terms of roles or "functions" performed by individual
members, groups, institutions, social relations. Society like a living
organism
Latent versus manifest functions. (Comte, Durkheim)
Conflict Paradigm [macro level] - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Explains social
organization and change in terms of conflict built into social relations.
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, All social relations characterized by conflict
Social class is the major engine of change. (Marx)
Symbolic Interaction Paradigm [micro level] - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Emphasizes
micro level social processes.
Assumptions: importance of interaction; importance of symbols- the way we
interact we use forms of symbols, hand gestures, eye contact speech
patterns.
Constructivism. (Weber, Goffman)
Macro-level vs micro-level theories - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔relate to large-scale
issues and large groups of people, while micro-level theories look at very
specific relationships between individuals or small groups.
Grand theories - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔attempt to explain large-scale
relationships and answer fundamental questions such as why societies
form and why they change.
Sociological theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔is constantly evolving and should
never be considered complete.
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