SOCIOLOGY 1301 EXAMINATION SET 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔what are the patterns caused by? - ✔✔it is caused by social forces.
✔✔Max Weber (1864-1920) German (pessimist) - ✔✔He is most known for his study of
ideal types
he also believes in the concept of "verstehen" ( to understand deeply)
✔✔Substantive and formal/instrumental (t-chart)
Substantive
Religion's ( Asia- East) - ✔✔Formal/ Instrumental
Europe- East
✔✔Substantive
Tradition - ✔✔Formal/ Instrumental
Science/ Progress
✔✔Substantive
Whole - ✔✔Formal/instrumental
Narrow role
✔✔Substantive
Attrvism( compassion for others) - ✔✔Formal/ instrumental
Selfishness (cost, Benefits, Economics, What's in it for me)
✔✔What did Max Weber argued? - ✔✔He was worried that the world will turn selfish
and change and that we will end up living in a Iron Cage (a very dark view)
✔✔Karl Marx (1818-1883) German - ✔✔(optimist) he was the father of conflict theory
and believes the world is unfair.
human history is about class struggle.
✔✔Karl Marx also spoke about the Bourgeoisie and Proletriat are? - ✔✔The
Bourgeoisie is the owner and the Proletriat is the workers.
Example: Lords --> Servers
(lords are white and the servers are not white)
✔✔Class Position is ___. - ✔✔A function of access to M.O.P (means of production)
✔✔False Concessions - ✔✔idea that the system works in the benefit for everybody.
✔✔class conciseness - ✔✔works for some and not for others. it will benefit the owners
not the workers.
, ✔✔Marx said there is a complex society such as___. - ✔✔- Tribalism
- Feudalism
- Judaism
- Catholicism
- Capitalism
✔✔Structural Functionalism - ✔✔structures perform functions for the benefit of all
✔✔Conflict theory - ✔✔Structures perform functions for the benefit of some.
✔✔What are the two main theories (macro-theories) - ✔✔Conflict and Structural
Functionalism
✔✔School is to provide? - ✔✔Education
✔✔Police is to provide - ✔✔Protection/Social Control
✔✔Church is to Provide - ✔✔Salvation
✔✔Family is to provide - ✔✔Socialization
✔✔capatalism - ✔✔Benefits from our desires (fashion, cars, style, etc.)
✔✔what kind of theory is a symbolic interactionism? - ✔✔Its a micro- theory
✔✔Dramaturgical View (Goffman) - ✔✔Life is a stage, where all actors and we have a
front and back stage.
✔✔What is symbolic interactionism? - ✔✔Freedom, you make it yourself.
✔✔Theory is not reality, its a___. - ✔✔Tool
✔✔There are two methods that we use, which are____. - ✔✔Quantitative and
Qualitative
✔✔What is Quantitative? - ✔✔numbers
✔✔What is qualitative data? - ✔✔descriptive data (words)
✔✔Dependent variable is the - ✔✔The effect of some other variable (study)
✔✔Independent Variable is the - ✔✔cause (get better grades)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔what are the patterns caused by? - ✔✔it is caused by social forces.
✔✔Max Weber (1864-1920) German (pessimist) - ✔✔He is most known for his study of
ideal types
he also believes in the concept of "verstehen" ( to understand deeply)
✔✔Substantive and formal/instrumental (t-chart)
Substantive
Religion's ( Asia- East) - ✔✔Formal/ Instrumental
Europe- East
✔✔Substantive
Tradition - ✔✔Formal/ Instrumental
Science/ Progress
✔✔Substantive
Whole - ✔✔Formal/instrumental
Narrow role
✔✔Substantive
Attrvism( compassion for others) - ✔✔Formal/ instrumental
Selfishness (cost, Benefits, Economics, What's in it for me)
✔✔What did Max Weber argued? - ✔✔He was worried that the world will turn selfish
and change and that we will end up living in a Iron Cage (a very dark view)
✔✔Karl Marx (1818-1883) German - ✔✔(optimist) he was the father of conflict theory
and believes the world is unfair.
human history is about class struggle.
✔✔Karl Marx also spoke about the Bourgeoisie and Proletriat are? - ✔✔The
Bourgeoisie is the owner and the Proletriat is the workers.
Example: Lords --> Servers
(lords are white and the servers are not white)
✔✔Class Position is ___. - ✔✔A function of access to M.O.P (means of production)
✔✔False Concessions - ✔✔idea that the system works in the benefit for everybody.
✔✔class conciseness - ✔✔works for some and not for others. it will benefit the owners
not the workers.
, ✔✔Marx said there is a complex society such as___. - ✔✔- Tribalism
- Feudalism
- Judaism
- Catholicism
- Capitalism
✔✔Structural Functionalism - ✔✔structures perform functions for the benefit of all
✔✔Conflict theory - ✔✔Structures perform functions for the benefit of some.
✔✔What are the two main theories (macro-theories) - ✔✔Conflict and Structural
Functionalism
✔✔School is to provide? - ✔✔Education
✔✔Police is to provide - ✔✔Protection/Social Control
✔✔Church is to Provide - ✔✔Salvation
✔✔Family is to provide - ✔✔Socialization
✔✔capatalism - ✔✔Benefits from our desires (fashion, cars, style, etc.)
✔✔what kind of theory is a symbolic interactionism? - ✔✔Its a micro- theory
✔✔Dramaturgical View (Goffman) - ✔✔Life is a stage, where all actors and we have a
front and back stage.
✔✔What is symbolic interactionism? - ✔✔Freedom, you make it yourself.
✔✔Theory is not reality, its a___. - ✔✔Tool
✔✔There are two methods that we use, which are____. - ✔✔Quantitative and
Qualitative
✔✔What is Quantitative? - ✔✔numbers
✔✔What is qualitative data? - ✔✔descriptive data (words)
✔✔Dependent variable is the - ✔✔The effect of some other variable (study)
✔✔Independent Variable is the - ✔✔cause (get better grades)
