WGU C273 Pre- Assessment Questions
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Suicide rates were higher in areas where an individual's ties to their group were disrupted or distorted. -
Answer What did Emile Durkheim's research on suicide reveal?
Positivism - Answer Which idea did Auguste Comte introduce to the field of sociology?
Symbolic interactionism - Answer Which sociological perspective assumes that social life is shaped by
the meanings people associate with things?
Conflict - Answer Which sociological perspective views society as being made up of groups competing
for scarce resources?
Misleading research subjects - Answer Which ethical dilemma in sociological research does Laud
Humphry's study on social interactions between men in public restrooms highlight?
Ethical standards - Answer Sociologists must consider the potential physical and emotional risks that
participants may be exposed to during a research study.Which issue does this consideration address?
Cultural relativism - Answer What are sociologists practicing when they evaluate cultures without
judging them?
Subculture - Answer A group of teachers teaching in the same neighborhood of Los Angeles meet
regularly about family and ethnicity issues they encounter in their daily work. What is this an example
of?
Values define a culture's standards for good and bad, beautiful and ugly, right and wrong. - Answer
What role do a culture's values play in social interactions?
, It is an environment where one can acquire new perspectives of the world. - Answer How does the
workplace act as an agent of socialization?
Adolescents, ages 13 to 17 - Answer According to studies of socialization through the "life course" in
modern society, which group characteristically grapples most with the question "Who am I?" and
struggles to carve out a group identity?
Family - Answer Where do most people first encounter gender socialization?
Perception of the norms, values, attitudes, and expectations of others in general - Answer What does
George Herbert Mead's term "generalized other" refer to in relation to the development of the self?
Third - Answer If Mateo feels happy because he thinks his classmates will approve of his new shoes,
which phase of the looking-glass self is Mateo in?
The looking-glass self - Answer Which concept reflects sociological ways of thinking about the
development of self?
A group that is created through similar interests, activities, or professions - Answer What is a secondary
group?
Role strain - Answer A student is well prepared for a class assignment, and she feels confident she
knows the correct answers to the questions the teacher will ask during a group discussion. However, the
student is reluctant to raise her hand to answer the questions to avoid making her classmates look
bad.Which term explains the student's behavior within the social structure of the group?
People who wear glasses - Answer What is an example of a category?
Aggregate - Answer Which term describes a crowd of people who happen to be in the same place at
the same time?
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Suicide rates were higher in areas where an individual's ties to their group were disrupted or distorted. -
Answer What did Emile Durkheim's research on suicide reveal?
Positivism - Answer Which idea did Auguste Comte introduce to the field of sociology?
Symbolic interactionism - Answer Which sociological perspective assumes that social life is shaped by
the meanings people associate with things?
Conflict - Answer Which sociological perspective views society as being made up of groups competing
for scarce resources?
Misleading research subjects - Answer Which ethical dilemma in sociological research does Laud
Humphry's study on social interactions between men in public restrooms highlight?
Ethical standards - Answer Sociologists must consider the potential physical and emotional risks that
participants may be exposed to during a research study.Which issue does this consideration address?
Cultural relativism - Answer What are sociologists practicing when they evaluate cultures without
judging them?
Subculture - Answer A group of teachers teaching in the same neighborhood of Los Angeles meet
regularly about family and ethnicity issues they encounter in their daily work. What is this an example
of?
Values define a culture's standards for good and bad, beautiful and ugly, right and wrong. - Answer
What role do a culture's values play in social interactions?
, It is an environment where one can acquire new perspectives of the world. - Answer How does the
workplace act as an agent of socialization?
Adolescents, ages 13 to 17 - Answer According to studies of socialization through the "life course" in
modern society, which group characteristically grapples most with the question "Who am I?" and
struggles to carve out a group identity?
Family - Answer Where do most people first encounter gender socialization?
Perception of the norms, values, attitudes, and expectations of others in general - Answer What does
George Herbert Mead's term "generalized other" refer to in relation to the development of the self?
Third - Answer If Mateo feels happy because he thinks his classmates will approve of his new shoes,
which phase of the looking-glass self is Mateo in?
The looking-glass self - Answer Which concept reflects sociological ways of thinking about the
development of self?
A group that is created through similar interests, activities, or professions - Answer What is a secondary
group?
Role strain - Answer A student is well prepared for a class assignment, and she feels confident she
knows the correct answers to the questions the teacher will ask during a group discussion. However, the
student is reluctant to raise her hand to answer the questions to avoid making her classmates look
bad.Which term explains the student's behavior within the social structure of the group?
People who wear glasses - Answer What is an example of a category?
Aggregate - Answer Which term describes a crowd of people who happen to be in the same place at
the same time?
