Sociology 101 Straighterline final exam What is sociology - Correct answer-the scientific study of social interactions and of social organizations What is the functionalist perspective? - Correct answer-A system is to survive where certain essential tasks are performed. What happens to a functionalist system? - Correct answer-If it fails to maintain it will perish. What is a conflict perspective? - Correct answer-Conflict theorists focus their attention on society as a whole, studying its institutions and structural arrangements. What is the interactionist perspective? - Correct answer-It is more concerned with the micro or small-scale aspects of social life Why would you use conflict, interactionist and functionalist perspectives together? - Correct answer-By using all perspectives for full advantages. What is socialization? - Correct answer-A process of social interaction by which people acquire knowledge, attitudes, values and behavior essential for effective participation in society. What are agents of socialization? - Correct answer-Family, peers, school and mass media What is the sociological theory? - Correct answer-A theory that emphasizes conditioning and observational theory What is culture? - Correct answer-Refers to a social heritage of people learning patterns for thinking, feeling and acting from one generation to the next. What is society? - Correct answer-Refer to a group of people within the same territory and share a common culture. What does it mean to be culture in flux? - Correct answer-Culture groups adapt in dynamic and unpredictable ways Whats a subculture? - Correct answer-Religious, racial, ethnic, occupational and age groups. What is a counterculture? - Correct answer-Rejects many of the behavioral standards and guideposts that hold in the dominant culture. What is ethnocentrism? - Correct answer-Judges the behavior of other groups by the standards of our own culture What is a 'status' - Correct answer-A position within a group or society What is a 'role' - Correct answer-A status carried with a set of culturally defined right and duties What are social structures? - Correct answer-roles, statuses, groups and institutions. What are family structures? - Correct answer-A way in which we define the family determines the kinds of family we consider to be normal or deviant. What would be considered challenges to a family? - Correct answer-Incest, family violence and child abuse.