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SOC101 Introduction to Sociology

Chapter 2 Exam

Question 1Luthor has been part of the football team for two years, but he still feels like an outsider with many of the players. His teammates never asked him to hang out after practices or get together at any other time separate from team functions. Simmel would describe Luthor’s experience as being a result of his __________.

Question 2Susan worked tirelessly as an activist trying to stop the use of children in sweatshop labor. She organized protests, started a boycott campaign of major clothing brands, and founded her own charitable organization to fight against the use of children in sweatshops. How would Weber describe Susan’s identity as an activist?

Question 3Durkheim argues that individuals in modern societies have the freedom to express their own unique preferences, tastes, and beliefs and that this freedom, also referred to as __________, is the basis of social solidarity in modern society.

Question 4Parsons’s theory of an overarching social system guiding the individuals, groups, and social institutions of society would become known as __________.

Question 5Conflict theorists were critical of Parsons’s structural functionalist theory because they argued it presented __________.

Question 6Imagine you are sitting at a table thinking about love. How would Herbert Blumer distinguish the three types of objects that could be subject to interpretation in your situation?

Question 7Organic solidarity describes a(n) __________ society that is characterized by __________.

Question 8Which of the following statements about social theorists is chronologically accurate?

Question 9The rigorous training and licensing of doctors controlled by the American Medical Association is an example of Weber’s concept of __________.

Question 10The capitalist world system is a theory of globalization that argues __________.

Question 11According to Marx, an automated welding machine used to assemble automobile bodies would be an example of __________.

Question 12The structural functionalist view on social change is that society __________.

Question 13Structural individualism is a theory of analytical sociology that argues that society is based on the choices and actions that individuals and groups make while __________.

Question 14Karl Marx argued that __________.

Question 15Dominant theories of race during the time of W. E. B. Du Bois claimed that race __________.