WGU Academy Intro to Sociology Final Exam With Answers 100% Pass
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WGU Academy Intro to Sociology Final Exam With Answers 100% Pass
1. conflict perspec-
tive
2. Health care is
profit-driven
3. the incest taboo
4. polygamy
5.
Which sociological perspective suggests that the term
medicalization of society refers to the growing role of
medicine as a major i...
WGU Academy Intro to Sociology Final Exam With Answers 100% Pass
1. conflict perspec- Which sociological perspective suggests that the term
tive medicalization of society refers to the growing role of
medicine as a major institution of social control?
Select one:
a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. labeling perspective
2. Health care is Which of the following factors has contributed to the rise
profit-driven in the cost of healthcare in the United States?
Select one:
a. The system is highly efficient.
b. Health care is profit-driven.
c. The young population is consuming less health care
that previously thought.
d. Pharmaceutical companies are developing generic,
low-cost prescription drugs
3. the incest taboo In most states in the U.S., an individual is not permitted
to marry a parent, a sibling, an aunt or an uncle, a grand-
parent, or a first or second cousin. These rules reflect our
societal emphasis on
Select one:
a. the incest taboo.
b. endogamy.
c. exogamy.
d. homogamy.
4. polygamy What is the general term for a marriage in which an
individual can have several husbands or wives at the
same time?
Select one:
a. monogamy
b. polygamy
c. polygyny
d. polyandry
5.
,WGU Academy Intro to Sociology Final Exam With Answers 100% Pass
organizing a Which of the following would be an example of a man
birthday lunch at "redoing" traditional gender?
work Select one: a. fist fighting in public
b. organizing a birthday lunch at work
c. not crying when hurt
d. carrying lots of heavy items
6. world systems In Immanuel Wallerstein's view, the global economic sys-
analysis tem is divided between nations that control wealth and
nations from which resources are taken. This view is
referred to as
Select one:
a. neocolonialism.
b. colonialism.
c. world systems analysis.
d. the world exploitation model
7. division of labor The failure of various government intelligence-gathering
organizations to detect the terrorist attacks of September
11, 2001, illustrates which poorly functioning aspect of
government bureaucracy?
Select one:
a. division of labor
b. hierarchy of authority
c. impersonality
d. employment based on technical qualifications
8. combination of Invention is the
existing cultural Select one:
items into a form a. combination of existing cultural items into a form that
that did not pre- did not previously exist.
viously exist b. process of introducing new elements into a culture.
c. process of making known or sharing the existence of an
aspect of reality.
d. process by which a cultural item is spread from group
to group or society to society.
9. sociological Trying to understand why your roommate prefers a certain
imagination genre of music, over others, is an example of using one's
Select one:
, WGU Academy Intro to Sociology Final Exam With Answers 100% Pass
a. cultural capital.
b. conflict perspective.
c. double consciousness.
d. sociological imagination
10. macrosociology A study of divorce rates among the populations of Cana-
da, England, the U.S., and France, is an example of
Select one:
a. alienation.
b. anomie.
c. microsociology.
d. macrosociology
11. proletarians Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said, "The history of all
hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles....
The have nothing to lose but their chains. They
have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUN-
TRIES, UNITE!"
Select one:
a. bourgeoisie
b. proletarians
c. Vulcans
d. middle classes
12. developed con- Émile Durkheim's explanation of suicide was scientific
clusions based because he
on a systemat- Select one:
ic examination of a. developed conclusions based on a systematic exam-
data. ination of data. b. carefully studied the personalities of
hundreds of suicide victims.
c. worked in a university setting.
d. divided suicide into four distinctive categories.
13. economic class- In Karl Marx's analysis, society was fundamentally divid-
es that clash in ed between
pursuit of their Select one:
own class inter- a. separate genders that clash in pursuit of their own
ests interests.
b. economic classes that clash in pursuit of their own class
interests. c. different races that clash in pursuit of their
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