SOCIOLOGY 1301 END OF COURSE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
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✔✔Why are experiments much less common in sociology than in the natural sciences -
✔✔Sociological researchers can bring only small groups into a laboratory setting, where
people may behave unnaturally because they are being watched.
✔✔Philip Zimbardo's prison experiment involved setting up a make-believe jail and
randomly assigning male student volunteers to the roles of guards and prisoners. The
researcher concluded that: - ✔✔behavior in prisons is strongly influenced by the nature
of the prison setting
✔✔In an experiment on the effects of caffeine on the alertness of college students,
student volunteers are randomly assigned to two groups. One group is given caffeinated
coffee while the other group is given decaffeinated coffee. All participants then play a
video game to assess their mental acuity, measured as their final score on the video
game. In this study, the group that is given caffeinated coffee is called the: -
✔✔experimental group
✔✔Sociologists engage in historical analysis because: - ✔✔a time perspective is
frequently needed to make sense of a research problem
✔✔All sociological research on human subjects poses some sort of: - ✔✔ethical
dilemma regarding the subjects
✔✔How are the social sciences different from natural sciences? - ✔✔Social sciences
study objects that are self-aware (that is, humans).
✔✔To study the homeless, you must actually live among them. - ✔✔False
✔✔Which of the following norms is a cultural universal? - ✔✔prohibition against incest
✔✔Values are: - ✔✔abstract ideals about what is good and bad
✔✔A society is: - ✔✔an enduring system of interrelationships that connects individuals
✔✔Definitive principles or rules of behavior that people are expected to observe are
called: - ✔✔norms
✔✔The idea that you should not cheat during this exam is an example of a: - ✔✔norm
✔✔The components of a cultural system that are not actual physical objects are called
___________. - ✔✔nonmaterial culture
, ✔✔The Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis is important in understanding how: -
✔✔language shapes our perceptions and ways of thinking
✔✔The way that a person dresses, holds a knife and fork, and drives a car are
examples of: - ✔✔signifiers
✔✔What makes it possible for culture to be transmitted across time and space? -
✔✔writing
✔✔Early humans fashioned stone tools to hunt and gather for their subsistence.
Another important accomplishment is that they figured out a way to manage fire. This
reinforces the idea that early humans were: - ✔✔capable of abstract thought
✔✔For most of our existence as a species, humans have lived in what type of
societies? - ✔✔hunting and gathering
✔✔There was little difference among members of hunting and gathering societies, and
differences in position or rank were based on the: - ✔✔gender and age of the
community members
✔✔In which type of society do most people live and work on the land, growing crops for
food and to sell? - ✔✔agrarian
✔✔Most of what sociologists term civilizations were empires—settled agricultural cities.
We call them civilizations due to: - ✔✔the presence of writing, science, and art
✔✔Based on his or her view of the modern world, which sociological theorist most likely
agrees with the following statement about industrial society: Increased specialization in
a growing division of labor will benefit industrial society by increasing the bonds of social
cohesion? - ✔✔Émile Durkheim
✔✔Conditions in countries in the global south today are largely a result of their: -
✔✔historical relationships with Western industrialized societies
✔✔Which of the following is an informal method of social control enacted when a
person fails to conform? - ✔✔gossip
✔✔Smaller segments of a society with distinct values and norms and their own unique
patterns of behavior are called: - ✔✔subcultures
✔✔Which of the following societies is the best example of multiculturalism? - ✔✔one in
which two groups with different languages hold similar political and economic power
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Why are experiments much less common in sociology than in the natural sciences -
✔✔Sociological researchers can bring only small groups into a laboratory setting, where
people may behave unnaturally because they are being watched.
✔✔Philip Zimbardo's prison experiment involved setting up a make-believe jail and
randomly assigning male student volunteers to the roles of guards and prisoners. The
researcher concluded that: - ✔✔behavior in prisons is strongly influenced by the nature
of the prison setting
✔✔In an experiment on the effects of caffeine on the alertness of college students,
student volunteers are randomly assigned to two groups. One group is given caffeinated
coffee while the other group is given decaffeinated coffee. All participants then play a
video game to assess their mental acuity, measured as their final score on the video
game. In this study, the group that is given caffeinated coffee is called the: -
✔✔experimental group
✔✔Sociologists engage in historical analysis because: - ✔✔a time perspective is
frequently needed to make sense of a research problem
✔✔All sociological research on human subjects poses some sort of: - ✔✔ethical
dilemma regarding the subjects
✔✔How are the social sciences different from natural sciences? - ✔✔Social sciences
study objects that are self-aware (that is, humans).
✔✔To study the homeless, you must actually live among them. - ✔✔False
✔✔Which of the following norms is a cultural universal? - ✔✔prohibition against incest
✔✔Values are: - ✔✔abstract ideals about what is good and bad
✔✔A society is: - ✔✔an enduring system of interrelationships that connects individuals
✔✔Definitive principles or rules of behavior that people are expected to observe are
called: - ✔✔norms
✔✔The idea that you should not cheat during this exam is an example of a: - ✔✔norm
✔✔The components of a cultural system that are not actual physical objects are called
___________. - ✔✔nonmaterial culture
, ✔✔The Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis is important in understanding how: -
✔✔language shapes our perceptions and ways of thinking
✔✔The way that a person dresses, holds a knife and fork, and drives a car are
examples of: - ✔✔signifiers
✔✔What makes it possible for culture to be transmitted across time and space? -
✔✔writing
✔✔Early humans fashioned stone tools to hunt and gather for their subsistence.
Another important accomplishment is that they figured out a way to manage fire. This
reinforces the idea that early humans were: - ✔✔capable of abstract thought
✔✔For most of our existence as a species, humans have lived in what type of
societies? - ✔✔hunting and gathering
✔✔There was little difference among members of hunting and gathering societies, and
differences in position or rank were based on the: - ✔✔gender and age of the
community members
✔✔In which type of society do most people live and work on the land, growing crops for
food and to sell? - ✔✔agrarian
✔✔Most of what sociologists term civilizations were empires—settled agricultural cities.
We call them civilizations due to: - ✔✔the presence of writing, science, and art
✔✔Based on his or her view of the modern world, which sociological theorist most likely
agrees with the following statement about industrial society: Increased specialization in
a growing division of labor will benefit industrial society by increasing the bonds of social
cohesion? - ✔✔Émile Durkheim
✔✔Conditions in countries in the global south today are largely a result of their: -
✔✔historical relationships with Western industrialized societies
✔✔Which of the following is an informal method of social control enacted when a
person fails to conform? - ✔✔gossip
✔✔Smaller segments of a society with distinct values and norms and their own unique
patterns of behavior are called: - ✔✔subcultures
✔✔Which of the following societies is the best example of multiculturalism? - ✔✔one in
which two groups with different languages hold similar political and economic power
