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GCU sociology final exam with verified answers
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Sociological Imagination - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ A tool to understand the social world and
establish scientific social facts and how individuals shape society and how society shapes the individual.
Material Culture - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ what a person can engage with tangibly through the
senses of touch, taste, and feel (jewelry, food, clothing).
Nonmaterial Culture - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ consists of the symbols, language, values, and rules
of the group of people or society (wearing black to a funeral to represent moruning)
The looking glass self - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ A 3-step process by which formulates a sense of self
in response to their perceptions of others reactions towards them
looking-glass self three components - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 1. initial imagination (how do I
appear to others?)
2. imagined judgement (What must others think of me?)
3. Psychological reaction (revise how we think about ourselves?)
Taking the role of the other - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -putting yourself in someone else's shoes
-anticipate actions and others feelings
Function vs. Dysfunction - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Function: The beneficial consequences of actions
or structures
Dysfunction: the harmful consequences of actions or structures
Manifest - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ intended
(relates back to function vs. dysfunction)
, Latent - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ unintended
(relates back to function vs. dysfunction)
Total institutions - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ in which inhabitants are isolated and cut off from the
prevailing society (prisons, boarding schools)
Social stratification - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ is the way in which a society organizes itself so that
individuals know their place or rank, also called their social position, in society
Race vs. Ethnicity - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Race: A person's physical attributes that have social
meaning (cannot choose)
Ethnicity: A personal cultural-historical identification with a group.
Sex vs. Gender - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ sex: biological characteristics
gender: what gender you choose to portray to the social world
Glass ceiling - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ When a qualified individual is unable to be promoted
because of their gender, race, or ethnicity. (mostly seen with women)
Voter apathy - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Feel apathetic towards the government..."What difference
does my vote make?"
Alienation - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Those who feel they gain less from the system (education,
income, jobs). They become alienated from politics and feel hostile towards the government
Political Action Committees (PACs) - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Solicit contributions from many
corporations and individuals to financially support politicians
Widowhood Effect - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ When the death of a spouse occurs and can cause the
remaining spouse to die earlier than was expected
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