SOC 202 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
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What is Sociology? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The Scientific study of social behavior
and human groups
-includes all forms of social interaction
How is sociology like a science and how is it different from other sciences?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔it is the application of the scientific method to everyday
life; we take the interactions that people have and study them from an
objective scientific perspective; The subjects in sociology are similar and so
familiar and in other sciences the things being studied are unfamiliar
microsociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔interactions among small groups of few
people (romantic)
macrosociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔looks at interactions of groups as large as
nation states or races
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,Max Weber - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a famous german sociologist that stated any
action that took into account other people (even their opinions) possessed
social meaning and therefore was qualified as a social action
social action - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔any act or engagement that possess social
meaning
Define sociological imagination (sociological perspective) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔this is what sociologists use to apply science to normal social life
Give an example of a metaphor that would represent sociological
imagination - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔fish seeing the water--> where sociologists
are the fish that have decided to study the water they are in
What does the sociological imagination allow us to do? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔it
allows us to dissect things that we do in everyday life without even thinking
about and lets us understand whys e do the things we do; gain perspective
Who is the famous scientists that introduced sociological imagination? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔C. Wright Mills in THE PROMISE
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,How does C wright mills define sociological imagination? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Understanding or being aware of social context (milieux) that constrains
the choices people make.
-he presents the ability to put individual choices and actions into a larger
historical context as a critical part of sociological imagination
-reminds us that in every society, in every era there are specific contexts
that will make us more or less likely to act a certain way or choose an
option
Describe the distinction between personal issues and public troubles? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔a personal issue is the individual struggle to say find a job
public trouble would be that their is not enough jobs to go around
The sociological imagination involves us ___ - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔shifting our
perceptions to specifically examine those constraints
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, What are three aspects in which the sociological imagination can be broken
down into? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1) seeing the general in the particular
2) seeing the strange in the familiar
3) seeing the interplay of structure and agency
Describe what seeing the general in the particular means? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔it describes looking for patterns among the behaviors of individuals
-while we make our own choices (the particular), certain groups or
categories of people tend to make similar choices (the general)
Drescribe what it means to see the strange in the familiar? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔It involves looking at the normal everyday features of our lives as if they
were not normal or common
-we must put away our normal way of thinking of something
-it involves active suspension of our normal preconceptions PP-11
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Correct Answers | New Update
What is Sociology? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The Scientific study of social behavior
and human groups
-includes all forms of social interaction
How is sociology like a science and how is it different from other sciences?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔it is the application of the scientific method to everyday
life; we take the interactions that people have and study them from an
objective scientific perspective; The subjects in sociology are similar and so
familiar and in other sciences the things being studied are unfamiliar
microsociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔interactions among small groups of few
people (romantic)
macrosociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔looks at interactions of groups as large as
nation states or races
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,Max Weber - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a famous german sociologist that stated any
action that took into account other people (even their opinions) possessed
social meaning and therefore was qualified as a social action
social action - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔any act or engagement that possess social
meaning
Define sociological imagination (sociological perspective) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔this is what sociologists use to apply science to normal social life
Give an example of a metaphor that would represent sociological
imagination - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔fish seeing the water--> where sociologists
are the fish that have decided to study the water they are in
What does the sociological imagination allow us to do? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔it
allows us to dissect things that we do in everyday life without even thinking
about and lets us understand whys e do the things we do; gain perspective
Who is the famous scientists that introduced sociological imagination? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔C. Wright Mills in THE PROMISE
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,How does C wright mills define sociological imagination? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Understanding or being aware of social context (milieux) that constrains
the choices people make.
-he presents the ability to put individual choices and actions into a larger
historical context as a critical part of sociological imagination
-reminds us that in every society, in every era there are specific contexts
that will make us more or less likely to act a certain way or choose an
option
Describe the distinction between personal issues and public troubles? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔a personal issue is the individual struggle to say find a job
public trouble would be that their is not enough jobs to go around
The sociological imagination involves us ___ - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔shifting our
perceptions to specifically examine those constraints
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, What are three aspects in which the sociological imagination can be broken
down into? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1) seeing the general in the particular
2) seeing the strange in the familiar
3) seeing the interplay of structure and agency
Describe what seeing the general in the particular means? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔it describes looking for patterns among the behaviors of individuals
-while we make our own choices (the particular), certain groups or
categories of people tend to make similar choices (the general)
Drescribe what it means to see the strange in the familiar? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔It involves looking at the normal everyday features of our lives as if they
were not normal or common
-we must put away our normal way of thinking of something
-it involves active suspension of our normal preconceptions PP-11
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