Sociology Final Exam Review
1. How long has sociology been around? (How many years?)
2. Do groups encourage conformity?
3. What is the sociological perspective?
4. What is verstehen?
5. What is the difference between microsociology and macrosociology?
6. What is a symbol?
7. What are some examples of a symbol?
8. What is a latent function?
9. What is a manifest function?
10. What is symbolic interactionism?
11. What is conflict theory perspective?
12. What is the functionalist perspective?
13. What is group conformity?
14. What is a random sample?
15. Who started the Hull House?
16. Who is the Father of Sociology?
17. Who believed in a classless society?
18. Whose belief system and theories are closely related to Social Darwinism?
19. Who believed society exists due to group consensus?
20. Explain the difference between quantitative and qualitative research?
21. What is a survey?
22. Which research method is best suited for researching the views of 1000+
people?
23. What is an open-ended question?
24. What is a closed-ended question?
25. What is a population?
26. Why do researchers not conduct surveys of an entire population?
27. What is a dependent variable?
28. What is an independent variable?
29. What is a hypothesis?
30. What is causation?
31. What is a correlation?
32. What is a norm?
33. What is a subculture? Give an example.
34. What is a counterculture? Give an example.
35. What is a taboo?
36. What is a value?
37. What is an instinct?
38. What does the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis state?
39. What is a more?
40. What is a drive?
41. What is a reflex?
42. What is a folkway?
43. Give examples of the material side of culture.
44. Give examples of the nonmaterial side of culture.
45. What is a formal sanction?
46. What is an informal sanction?
47. Define personality.
48. Describe the results of Harry Harlow’s research on rhesus monkeys?
49. What is a self-concept?
50. What is a hidden curriculum? *Know what is not included in the hidden
curriculum.
51. In school, rewards and punishments are typically based on _______.
52. Describe the difference between the control group and the experimental group.
53. Define “me”
54. Define “I”
55. What is the game stage?
56. Define socialization
57. Define significant others
58. What is the difference between ascribed status and achieved status?
59. Give an example of an ascribed status.
60. Define social interaction
61. Define group
62. What are small groups characterized by warm, informal, and long-lasting
interaction?
63. What groups are formal, emotionally cool, and often temporary groups?
64. A social group to which individuals belong and toward which they feel pride and
loyalty is referred to as a/an _______.
65. A social group toward which we feel disdain and perhaps hostility is referred to
as a/an ______.
66. What is a reference group?
67. List the characteristics of a group.
68. What is coercion?
69. What is conflict?
70. What is cooperation?
71. What is groupthink?
72. Define negative deviance
73. Define positive deviance
74. What is social control?
75. Define recidivism
76. Define retreatism
77. Define rebellion
78. Define ritualism
79. Define innovation
80. What is the differential association theory?
81. Define retribution
82. Provide examples of positive social sanction
83. Provide examples of negative social sanction
84. Define stigma
85. Define strain theory
86. Define labeling theory
87. Define control theory
88. Define deterrence
89. Define anomie
90. What is a sanction?
Be very familiar with the three sociological perspectives. Be able to apply them
to situations.