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Sociology 101 Straighterline final exam QUESTION AND ANSWERS UPDATED What is sociology - CORRECT ANSWER the scientific study of social interactions and of social organizations What is the functionalist perspective? - CORRECT ANSWER A system is to survive where certain essential tasks are p...

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What is sociology - CORRECT ANSWER the scientific study of social
interactions and of social organizations

What is the functionalist perspective? - CORRECT ANSWER A system is
to survive where certain essential tasks are performed.

What happens to a functionalist system? - CORRECT ANSWER If it fails
to maintain it will perish.

What is a conflict perspective? - CORRECT ANSWER Conflict theorists
focus their attention on society as a whole, studying its institutions
and structural arrangements.

What is the interactionist perspective? - CORRECT ANSWER It is more
concerned with the micro or small-scale aspects of social life

Why would you use conflict, interactionist and functionalist
perspectives together? - CORRECT ANSWER By using all perspectives
for full advantages.

What is socialization? - CORRECT ANSWER A process of social
interaction by which people acquire knowledge, attitudes, values and
behavior essential for effective participation in society.

What are agents of socialization? - CORRECT ANSWER Family, peers,
school and mass media

What is the sociological theory? - CORRECT ANSWER A theory that
emphasizes conditioning and observational theory

,What is culture? - CORRECT ANSWER Refers to a social heritage of
people learning patterns for thinking, feeling and acting from one
generation to the next.

What is society? - CORRECT ANSWER Refer to a group of people within
the same territory and share a common culture.

What does it mean to be culture in flux? - CORRECT ANSWER Culture
groups adapt in dynamic and unpredictable ways

Whats a subculture? - CORRECT ANSWER Religious, racial, ethnic,
occupational and age groups.

What is a counterculture? - CORRECT ANSWER Rejects many of the
behavioral standards and guideposts that hold in the dominant culture.

What is ethnocentrism? - CORRECT ANSWER Judges the behavior of
other groups by the standards of our own culture

What is a 'status' - CORRECT ANSWER A position within a group or
society

What is a 'role' - CORRECT ANSWER A status carried with a set of
culturally defined right and duties

What are social structures? - CORRECT ANSWER roles, statuses, groups
and institutions.

What are family structures? - CORRECT ANSWER A way in which we
define the family determines the kinds of family we consider to be
normal or deviant.

What would be considered challenges to a family? - CORRECT ANSWER
Incest, family violence and child abuse.

Define government - CORRECT ANSWER Political process that have to
do with authoritative formulating of rules and policies.

, What is totalitarianism - CORRECT ANSWER Government takes control
of all part of the society and all aspects of social life.

What is authoritarianism - CORRECT ANSWER A political system in
which government tolerates little or no opposition to its rule but
permits nongovernmental center of influence

What is democracy - CORRECT ANSWER A political system in which the
powers of government derive from the consent of the people.

What is a socialist economy? - CORRECT ANSWER Government directly
controls the economy

What is a capitalist economy? - CORRECT ANSWER Government
oversees and sets parameters for the economy

What is a political system? - CORRECT ANSWER Political parties,
interest group and mass media

What is a political party? - CORRECT ANSWER organization designed to
gain control of the government by putting its people in public office

What is an interest group? - CORRECT ANSWER organization of people
who share common concerns or points of view

What is the mass media - CORRECT ANSWER Newspapers, tv,
magazines, radio and motion pictures.

What is religion - CORRECT ANSWER Socially shared and organized ways
of thinking, feeling and acting that concern ultimate meanings and
assume the existence of the supernatural or "beyond" often involved
practices related to sacred things.

What does education do - CORRECT ANSWER Transmission of particular
attitudes, knowledge and skills to the members of a society through
formal and systematic training.

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