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SOC 102 Final Exam GCU questions withanswers
What are the types of authority according to Max Weber (i.e. traditional authority)
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ According to Max Weber, the three types of legitimate authority are
traditional, rational-legal, and charismatic.
What is race and ethnicity? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ In basic terms, race describes physical traits,
and ethnicity refers to cultural identification. Race may also be identified as something you inherit while
ethnicity is something you learn.
What are the four different systems of stratification? Define them. - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ slavery
estate
caste
class
What are the 5 stages of Modernization Theory? Explain them - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 1)
traditional society
2) preconditions to take-off
3) take-off
4) drive to maturity
5) age of high mass consumption.
What are cultural universals? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ customs and practices that occur across all
societies
Name and explain the different types of Socialization - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Significant Others-
Throughout life, beginning in the family, important people in one's life guide and shape an individual's
behavior.
, Generalized Other- Basic socialization is complete when the individual internalizes the collective set of
norms and expectations of her society.
Agents of Social Control- Usually nonfamily authority figures, such as teachers, employers, and law
enforcement officials, that control individual conduct.
Name and explain Robert Merton's Strain Theory - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ If that deviance was a
result of tension between the cultural goals or aspirations held out to the larger society, and the
approved means of attaining those goals
5 modes of adaption are: comedy, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, rebellion
What is Demography and Demographic Transition? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ demography is the
study of the population via it's vital statistics such as fertility, mortality rates, migration, and economy
demographic transition is a phenomenon and theory which refers to the historical shift from high birth
rates and high infant death rates in societies with minimal technology, education (especially of women)
and economic development, to low birth rates and low death rates in societies with advanced
technology, education and economic development, as well as the stages between these two scenarios.
4 stages are:
pre-industrial, urbanizing/industrializing, mature industrial, and post-industrial
What are in-groups and out-groups? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ in-group= with which an individual
identifies as a member
out-groups= those with which people do not identify
Explain and Ascribed and Achieved Status - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Ascribed are those occupied
from the moment a person is born.
Achieved are attained by virtue of effort.
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