SOCIOLOGY: FINAL EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Know the following concepts/terms:
Sociological imagination
material culture
nonmaterial culture
subculture
counterculture
cultural diffusion
cultural lag
ethnocentrism
norms
mores
folkways
ascribed status
achieved status
role strain
role conflict
formal group
informal group
anticipatory socialization
total institution
dating
courtship
rite of passage
family of orientation
family of procreation
monogamy
polygamy
polygyny
polyandry
extended family
kinship
internalization
deviance
sanction
nuclear family
patrilocal
matrilocal
neolocal
patrilineal
matrilineal
bilateral
patriarchy
matriarchy
equalitarian
exogamy
endogamy
formal schooling
tracking
hidden curriculum
voucher
charter schools
zero tolerance
sacred
profane
ecclesiae
denomination
sect
cult
secularization
fundamentalism
rationalization
bureaucratization
quantification
stacking
media convergence
agenda setting
spiral of silence
digital divide
1. What is the difference between material culture and non-material culture? Give an example of each.
2. What makes a counterculture different from a subculture?
3. Explain how a more and a folkway are different. Give an example of each.
4. Give an example of one of your ascribed statuses.
5. Give an example of one of your achieved statuses.
6. Janet is a mother of two daughters, a wife, president of a social club which meets Sunday evenings,
and teachers Sunday school at her church. On Sunday morning, one of her daughters got sick.
This is an example of: (circle one)
role strain
role conflict
7. Fred is a high school senior who has a Sociology paper due on Wednesday, a test in AP Chemistry
on Thursday, and needs to finish the essay for his college applications by Saturday.
This is an example of: (circle one)
role strain
role conflict
8. Give an example of anticipatory socialization from your life.
9. Compare and contrast dating and courting.
10. Describe hunter-gatherer societies.
11. Describe agrarian/agricultural societies.
12. Describe industrial societies.
13. Describe post-industrial societies.
14. Give an example of a rite of passage.
15. Explain the changes that have occurred in the concept of adolescence since industrialization.
16. Give an example each:
-formal positive sanction
-informal positive sanction
-formal negative sanction
-informal negative sanction
17. List the people that make up the following family structures in your life:
-nuclear family
-family of orientation
-family of procreation
18. What are the two types of polygamy?
19. When Robert and Patty (both middle-class) married, they lived with Patty’s parents until the
finished graduate school.
This is an example of this type of marriage: (circle one)
endogamy
exomogy
And this residential pattern:
patrilocal
matrilocal
neolocal
20. Prince Charles and Princess Dianna’s sons, William and Harry inherited their titles because their
father is the son of Queen Elizabeth II.
This is an example of this descent pattern: (circle one)
patrilineal matrilineal bilateral
William (royal) and Kate (commoner) is an example of this type of marriage:
endogamy
exomogy
21. Many Native American tribes are comprised of families where most of the authority is held by the
mothers.
This is an example of this authority pattern: (circle one) patriarchy matriarchy egalitarian
22. Give an example of both informal schooling and formal schooling.
23. Functionalist perspective on hidden curriculum in education:
Conflict perspective on hidden curriculum in education:
24. Functionalist perspective on differentiation in education:
Conflict perspective on tracking in education:
25. The 3 sociological functions of religion.
26. The 6 characteristics of sports as a social institution.
27. What is Title IX? Who does it protect?
28. Give an example of stacking in sports.
29. _______ Blogs, online newspapers, streaming radio stations
30. _______ Media’s control over what information is presented by
limiting the opinions presented
31. _______ Lack of access to information in poorer segments
of society resulting from limited exposure to
technology
32. _______ The media’s use of its power to tell the public what
to think, not to simply inform
A. spiral of silence
B. agenda setting
C. media convergence
D. digital divide