SOCIOLOGY 1301 EXAMS SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Sociologists maintain that there is a system to interaction. "System" means that": -
✔✔Established rules (often unspoken) guide interaction.
✔✔The statement "wealthy countries should give aid to poorer countries." Is a(n). -
✔✔Value Judgment
✔✔An independent variable is a: - ✔✔Variable influencing other variables.
✔✔Interpersonal realtions are fundamental to sociology because: - ✔✔They are
building blocks of social structure.
✔✔Which of the following would a sociologists be least likely to study? - ✔✔Why My
Jones quit his job.
✔✔Methodology could be best described as: - ✔✔The science of finding out.
✔✔Errors in personal inquiry include all of the following EXCEPT: - ✔✔Under
generalization.
✔✔Pseudo-scientific activities are: - ✔✔Subjective rather than objective.
✔✔Characteristics of critical thinking include which of the following: - ✔✔Emotions as
well as rational thought, triggered by positive as well as negative events, and productive
and posititve activity.
✔✔Social facts are: - ✔✔Ideas, feelings, and behavior that possess the property of
existing outside the consciosness of the individual.
✔✔Types of sociological analysis include all of the following EXCEPT: - ✔✔Correlate.
✔✔Nonscientific knowlegde is : - ✔✔That which is assumed to be true by ideological
premises, accepted as factually true by true one's reference groups, and based on
sheer habit alone.
✔✔The - persperctive studies at th micro-level - ✔✔Interactionist
✔✔In the U.S the most powerful single socialization force for you was your? - ✔✔Family
of orientation.
✔✔Marriage between people of different social groups is called? - ✔✔Endogamy.
, ✔✔Which of the following refers to a resident pattern in which a married couple lives
apart from the parents of both spouses? - ✔✔Neolocality.
✔✔Which of the following theoretical paradigms identifies many of the major reasons for
the existence of families? - ✔✔Structural-Functionalist paradigm.
✔✔According to the symbolic-interactionist approach: - ✔✔The reality of family life is
subjective.
✔✔Remarriage often creates - composed of biological parents and stepparents with
children who may have one, two, or no common parents: - ✔✔Blended Families.
✔✔Which trends is uncharacteristic of living arrangements in America? - ✔✔Singlehood
is not chosen by majority.
✔✔Endogamy refers to norms requiring or encouraging people to choose partners: -
✔✔Who share the same race.
✔✔A conflict theorist would argue that families are structured to: - ✔✔Confer social
status that is unequal.
✔✔Which of the following refers to social ties based on blood, marriage, or adoption? -
✔✔Kinships.
✔✔Which of the following best describes "marriage"? - ✔✔A socially-approved
relationship.
✔✔How are we prepared for parenthood in America? - ✔✔There is little preparation for
the parenting role.
✔✔The term for belief that is anchored in conviction rather scientific evidence is: -
✔✔Faith
✔✔Durkheim referred to the ordinary elements of everyday life as: - ✔✔The profane.
✔✔A church, not linked to the state, in a society that recognizes religious pluralism is a:
- ✔✔Denomination.
✔✔When sociologists study religion, they investigate: - ✔✔The social aspects of a
religion.
✔✔Which one of the following is not one of the three essential features of religion as
identified by Durkheim? - ✔✔"Great" books such as Koran or Torah.
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Sociologists maintain that there is a system to interaction. "System" means that": -
✔✔Established rules (often unspoken) guide interaction.
✔✔The statement "wealthy countries should give aid to poorer countries." Is a(n). -
✔✔Value Judgment
✔✔An independent variable is a: - ✔✔Variable influencing other variables.
✔✔Interpersonal realtions are fundamental to sociology because: - ✔✔They are
building blocks of social structure.
✔✔Which of the following would a sociologists be least likely to study? - ✔✔Why My
Jones quit his job.
✔✔Methodology could be best described as: - ✔✔The science of finding out.
✔✔Errors in personal inquiry include all of the following EXCEPT: - ✔✔Under
generalization.
✔✔Pseudo-scientific activities are: - ✔✔Subjective rather than objective.
✔✔Characteristics of critical thinking include which of the following: - ✔✔Emotions as
well as rational thought, triggered by positive as well as negative events, and productive
and posititve activity.
✔✔Social facts are: - ✔✔Ideas, feelings, and behavior that possess the property of
existing outside the consciosness of the individual.
✔✔Types of sociological analysis include all of the following EXCEPT: - ✔✔Correlate.
✔✔Nonscientific knowlegde is : - ✔✔That which is assumed to be true by ideological
premises, accepted as factually true by true one's reference groups, and based on
sheer habit alone.
✔✔The - persperctive studies at th micro-level - ✔✔Interactionist
✔✔In the U.S the most powerful single socialization force for you was your? - ✔✔Family
of orientation.
✔✔Marriage between people of different social groups is called? - ✔✔Endogamy.
, ✔✔Which of the following refers to a resident pattern in which a married couple lives
apart from the parents of both spouses? - ✔✔Neolocality.
✔✔Which of the following theoretical paradigms identifies many of the major reasons for
the existence of families? - ✔✔Structural-Functionalist paradigm.
✔✔According to the symbolic-interactionist approach: - ✔✔The reality of family life is
subjective.
✔✔Remarriage often creates - composed of biological parents and stepparents with
children who may have one, two, or no common parents: - ✔✔Blended Families.
✔✔Which trends is uncharacteristic of living arrangements in America? - ✔✔Singlehood
is not chosen by majority.
✔✔Endogamy refers to norms requiring or encouraging people to choose partners: -
✔✔Who share the same race.
✔✔A conflict theorist would argue that families are structured to: - ✔✔Confer social
status that is unequal.
✔✔Which of the following refers to social ties based on blood, marriage, or adoption? -
✔✔Kinships.
✔✔Which of the following best describes "marriage"? - ✔✔A socially-approved
relationship.
✔✔How are we prepared for parenthood in America? - ✔✔There is little preparation for
the parenting role.
✔✔The term for belief that is anchored in conviction rather scientific evidence is: -
✔✔Faith
✔✔Durkheim referred to the ordinary elements of everyday life as: - ✔✔The profane.
✔✔A church, not linked to the state, in a society that recognizes religious pluralism is a:
- ✔✔Denomination.
✔✔When sociologists study religion, they investigate: - ✔✔The social aspects of a
religion.
✔✔Which one of the following is not one of the three essential features of religion as
identified by Durkheim? - ✔✔"Great" books such as Koran or Torah.
