The following essay questions will on the final exam. You will have to complete anywhere from 4 to 6 (still being determined) of these essays on the day of the exam.
Ch.1
1-Identify and explain the three current perspectives in sociology. B)Choose the perspective you most agree with and explain your decision. C)Explain what you disagree with or dislike about the other two perspectives of sociology.
Ch.2
2. How do you think stereotypes about different American subcultures are related to ethnocentrism?
3. Describe the environmental factors that might account for the differences between the
Arapesh culture and the Mundungumor culture.
(12 points each)---In The Higher Levels of Human Growth ,
Elizabeth Monroe Drews discusses the values individuals choose. These values may be different from the values of the culture in which they were raised. Read the excerpt and answer the questions that follow.
What makes the crucial difference in our lives is the kind of values we prefer.
Make no mistake about this. There is a hierarchy of values and it is ethical in character. Some values are better than others. Love, mercy, justice, for example, are good, War, tyranny, cruelty, are evil.
4. Do you think our values are individually or culturally determined---or both? Explain your answer.
Ch.3
(12 points each)---In her book The Higher Levels of Human
Growth , Elizabeth Monroe Drews discusses the values individuals, cultures, and the pursuit of happiness. Read the excerpt and answer the questions that follow.
The arts of deception, dishonesty, even villainy, may bring some individuals their reward of power, or wealth or status---values much prized in our contemporary society. But they do not bring happiness. Money, power, and status are transient.
These values are in limited supply. The higher the values, on the other hand, are in unlimited supply. One can continue loving others, showing others to do the same. To be low on the scale in pursuit of a value which is itself low on the scale is to be a double loser.
5. What does Drews mean when she says, “To be low on the scale in pursuit of a value which is itself low on the scale is to be a double loser”?

6. Explain how each of the six sources of social change can affect society?
7. Explain how each of the three resistances to social change could affect the educational setting?
Ch.4
8. List the five types of social interaction. Next give one example of each type of interaction and explain how an exchange theorist might interpret these interactions.
9. What are the six types of societies? Explain each society and discuss how they differ from each other in social structure?
Ch.6
10. List and explain the five characteristics of adolescence. How might a teenager’s experiences be different based on their economic status or family structure?