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Sociology 1101 Exam 1 with Questions and Answers Graded A Plus Sociology ANSWER The systematic study of social behavior from a biological perspective. Institution ANSWER Any structure or mechanism of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given hu...

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Sociology 1101 Exam 1 with Questions and
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Sociology ANSWER The systematic study of social behavior from a biological perspective.



Institution ANSWER Any structure or mechanism of social order and cooperation governing
the behavior of a set of individuals within a given human community.



Group ANSWER Two or more people who interact frequently and share a common identity
and a feeling of interdependence.



Primary Group ANSWER A small, less specialized group in which members engage in face-
to-face, emotion-based interactions over an extended period of time.



Secondary Group ANSWER A larger, more specialized group in which members engage in
more-impersonal, goal-oriented relationships for a limited period of time.



Status ANSWER A socially defined position in a group or society characterized by certain
expectations, rights, and duties.



Ascribed Status ANSWER A social position conferred at birth or received involuntarily later
in life, based on attributes over which the individual has little or no control, such as
race/ethnicity, age and gender.



Achieved Status ANSWER A social position that a person assumes voluntarily as a result of
personal choice, merit, or direct effort.



Master Status ANSWER The most important status that a person occupies.



Roles ANSWER A set of behavioral expectations associated with a given status.

, Beliefs ANSWER The mental acceptance or conviction that certain things are true or real.



Values ANSWER Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable
or undesirable in a particular culture.



Norms ANSWER Are established rules of behavior or standards of conduct.



Folkways ANSWER Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without
serious consequences within a particular culture.



Mores ANSWER Strongly held norms with moral and ethical connotations that may not be
violated without serious consequences in a particular culture.



Laws ANSWER Formal, standardized norms that have been enacted by legislatures and are
enforced by formal sanctions.



Sanctions ANSWER Rewards for appropriate behavior or penalties for inappropriate
behavior.



Symbols ANSWER Anything that meaningfully represents something else.



The Sociological Imagination ANSWER C. Wright Mills's term for the ability to see the
relationship between individual experiences and the larger society.



Structural- Functionalism ANSWER Based on the assumption that society is a stable, orderly
system.



Conflict Perspective ANSWER The sociological approach that views groups in society as
engaged in a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources.

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