Sociology Final Exam Review
*You will be able to use hand written or approved typed notes on the Final Exam
Chapters/Topics Covered: These will be matching, T/F, and Multiple Choice
-Chapter 1 (Invitation to Sociology)
-Chapter 3 (Culture)
-Chapter7 Deviance
-Chapter 15 Sports
Documentaries/Movies/Magazine Articles: There will be True/False + Multiple Choice on these from the
notes/worksheets on each.
-Jonestown: “Life and Death of People’s Temple”
-Ted Talk on Bikini/changing culture
-My Big Fat Greek Wedding
-Two Escobars 30 for 30
-60 minutes: Escape from North Korea + Camp 14
-“The House I Live in”  Incarceration rates + discussion of the “war against drugsa”
- “I am Alive” : Andres Plan Crash
-ESPN 303 for 30 “Broke”
-Body Language (History Channel)
-Mean Girls
Projects: You will be asked to provide a short answer on 3 of these 5 projects reflecting upon what you
learned and how to make the project better next year.
-Social Change Project
-Cult Project
-Cultural Extinction Awareness Project
-Deviant Politicians
-Final End of year project
Chapter 1
Matching:
1. approach emphasizing the role of conflict, competition, and constraint within a society
2. All groups encourage this
3. People in a society operate on mutually understood ____________________
4. Demonstrated people’s need to conform to the group
5. approach that emphasizes the contributions made by each member of society
6. particular point of view
7. study of social change
8.. study of human social behavior and social structure
9. Felt great concern for poverty and inequality in the world
10. study of social mobility and order
Chapter 3
Matching:
1. include beliefs, rules, customs, etc
2. Norms that lack moral significance
3. broad ideas about what is good or desirable shared by people in a society
4. process of learning to participate in a group
5. norms that have moral dimensions and should be followed by members of a society
6. judging others in terms of ones own cultural standards
7. cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept
8. rewards and punishments used to encourage people to follow norms
9. rules defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior
10. image of yourself based upon what others think about you
11.rewards and punishments used to encourage people to follow norms
Theoretical perspective that emphasizes social stability and ways different parts of society contribute to
the whole
12. Punishment intended to make criminals pay compensation for their acts
13. Repetition or return to criminal behavior
14. Crime by people of higher economic/social status
15. it is important to know that in any given situation involving multiple people, everyone involved has
their individual ______________
Chapter 7 Deviance
Matching:
1. discouraging criminal acts by threatening punishment
2. theory that society creates deviance by identifying particular members as deviant
3. behavior that departs from societal or group norms
4. deviance can sometimes increase _______________within a society.
5. Increased rapidly in late 1980s due to the influx of crack cocaine on the street and consequential
increase in gang activity
6. Gave us the saying “an eye for an eye”
7. repetition of or return to criminal behavior
8. person who breaks significant societal or group norms
9. example would be negative gossip about someone
10. punishment intended to make criminals pay compensation for their acts (“an eye for an eye”)
11. Ways of encouraging conformity that lie within the individual. Ex: not stealing because you feel it is
wrong morally.
12. Ways of encouraging conformity by use of social sanctions
13. Discouraging criminal acts by threatening punishment
14. Repetition of or return to criminal behavior
Info to know:
-Positive/negative deviance
-Examples of stigmas
-What influences whether you are deviant
-Conflict Theory vs Functionalist
-Ch. 7 wrsts
Chapter 5 (Social Structure)
1. A person can have more than one status
2. Behaviors that individuals expect from others
3.Society where people survive primarily through the growing of plants and small gardens for food
4. Pattern of social relationships within a group setting
5. People in horticultural societies rely less on society and more on _____________
6. Type of society where members move from place to place in search of food
7. When agricultural societies began, distinct ________ appeared for the first time.
8. Society that uses plows and animals to help grow large fields of crops in order to feed themselves
9. Society where people depend on the raising of large livestock
10. Process of influencing each other as people relate
11. People living within defined territorial borders and sharing a common culture
12. In agricultural societies, the _________ usually replaces the family as the guiding force in society
13. Occurs when a person has trouble meeting the many roles connected with a single status
14. Position that neither earned nor assigned
Info to know:
-Examples of achieved status
-Examples of ascribed master status
-When did villages develop
Chapter 15 (Sports)
1. Set of competitive activities in which winners and losers are determined by physical performance
within a set of rules
2. Would argue sports promotes society and helps it run more smoothly through a variety of functions
3. Example of sport subculture
4. Would highlight the fact that sports sometimes promote unequal distribution of resources and
maintain inequality
5. Group with distinct roles, values, norms and beliefs that is organized around a sport
6. Example of something a functionalist would believe
*Projects: In 4-5 sentences, summarize what you learned about sociology from each project and also
what can make the project better for next year. (5 points each)