WGU C273 Pre-Assessment Intro to
Sociology Questions and Answers
1.What did Emile Durkheim's research on suicide reveal?
Answer Suicide rates were higher in areas where an individual's ties to
their group were disrupted or distorted.
2.Which idea did Auguste Comte introduce to the field of sociology?
Answer Posi- tivism
3.Which sociological perspective assumes that social life is shaped by
the meanings people associate with things?
Answer Symbolic interactionism
4.Which sociological perspective views society as being made up of
groups competing for scarce resources?
Answer Conflict
5.Which ethical dilemma in sociological research does Laud Humphry's
study on social interactions between men in public restrooms highlight?
Answer Misleading research subjects
6.Sociologists must consider the potential physical and emotional risks that
participants may be exposed to during a research study.Which issue does
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, this consideration address?
Answer Ethical standards
7.What are sociologists practicing when they evaluate cultures without
judg- ing them?
Answer Cultural relativism
8.A group of teachers teaching in the same neighborhood of Los Angeles
meet regularly about family and ethnicity issues they encounter in their
daily work. What is this an example of?
Answer Subculture
9.What role do a culture's values play in social interactions?
Answer Values define a culture's standards for good and bad, beautiful
and ugly, right and wrong.
10.How does the workplace act as an agent of socialization?
Answer It is an environ- ment where one can acquire new perspectives
of the world.
11.According to studies of socialization through the "life course" in modern
society, which group characteristically grapples most with the question
"Who am I?" and struggles to carve out a group identity?
Answer Adolescents, ages 13 to 17
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Sociology Questions and Answers
1.What did Emile Durkheim's research on suicide reveal?
Answer Suicide rates were higher in areas where an individual's ties to
their group were disrupted or distorted.
2.Which idea did Auguste Comte introduce to the field of sociology?
Answer Posi- tivism
3.Which sociological perspective assumes that social life is shaped by
the meanings people associate with things?
Answer Symbolic interactionism
4.Which sociological perspective views society as being made up of
groups competing for scarce resources?
Answer Conflict
5.Which ethical dilemma in sociological research does Laud Humphry's
study on social interactions between men in public restrooms highlight?
Answer Misleading research subjects
6.Sociologists must consider the potential physical and emotional risks that
participants may be exposed to during a research study.Which issue does
1/
11
, this consideration address?
Answer Ethical standards
7.What are sociologists practicing when they evaluate cultures without
judg- ing them?
Answer Cultural relativism
8.A group of teachers teaching in the same neighborhood of Los Angeles
meet regularly about family and ethnicity issues they encounter in their
daily work. What is this an example of?
Answer Subculture
9.What role do a culture's values play in social interactions?
Answer Values define a culture's standards for good and bad, beautiful
and ugly, right and wrong.
10.How does the workplace act as an agent of socialization?
Answer It is an environ- ment where one can acquire new perspectives
of the world.
11.According to studies of socialization through the "life course" in modern
society, which group characteristically grapples most with the question
"Who am I?" and struggles to carve out a group identity?
Answer Adolescents, ages 13 to 17
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