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SOC 100 Topic 1 Short Answer Quiz

1. Describe at least two important historical factors related to the origins of sociology.

2. Do you think that sociologists should try to reform society or only study society objectively? Give reasons why?

3. Describe and analyze your symbolic culture. What symbols are the most significant for you? Give specific examples why you believe the symbols you chose hold importance.

4. Describe an ethnocentric experience or a culturally relative experience in which you were a participant or one that you observed.

SOC 100 Topic 2 Short Answer Quiz

Complete the quiz in a Word document.  This is an open book quiz.  The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.

1. What Life Course stage are you currently in according to the textbook?  Analyze the stage based on your own experience.  What are the similarities and the differences?
2. Use the concepts of dramaturgy to analyze an everyday situation at work, school, or family.  Include the concepts of impressions management, sign-vehicles, team-work, or face-saving behaviors.
3. From the interactionist perspective discuss how you engage in your “personal bubble” using the four “distance zones.”
4. Give a brief discussion of three of the main agents of socialization in your life.  Which one was the most influential and why?

SOC 100 Topic 3 Short Quiz Answer

Complete the quiz in a Word document.  This is an open book quiz.  The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.

1. Describe your in-groups and your out-groups.  Give an example of how your in-group has influenced the way that you see the world.  Give an example of how your out-group either changed or reinforced your view of the world.
2. What leadership style or styles do you respond to in a positive way?  What type of leader is most effective in today’s bureaucratic environment?  As the group leader, how would you lead your team or group through a project?
3. Select a deviant behavior with which you are personally familiar (your behavior (s) or something that you know someone did) and choose one of the theoretical perspectives to analyze what happened.
4. Describe a broken social rule that you observed.  What was the reaction of others?  Why did people react in that manner? What was your response to the situation and other’s reactions?

SOC 100 Topic 4 Short Answer Quiz

Complete the quiz in a Word document.  This is an open book quiz.  The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.

1. How do property, power, and prestige affect your personal social class?  According to Marx’s conflict perspective in what social class do you belong and why? 

1. From your perspective, what are the current shifts in global stratification?  How does this affect the economic and political power of the United States?

1. In the current economic situation in the United States what do you project will happen to social mobility and the American Dream?

1. Describe the Horatio Alger myth.  Based on your own experience discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the myth for both men and women.

SOC 100 Topic 5 Short Quiz Answer

Complete the quiz in a Word document.  This is an open book quiz.  The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.

1. Describe the difference between race and ethnicity.  What roles do race and social class continue to play in the United States?

1. Describe a discriminatory situation that you experienced or witnessed.  Identify the individual aspects of this discrimination.  Describe any institutionalized racism that you have observed or experienced.

1. What should society do to reduce the possibility of discrimination in the workplace?  What-policies would you propose if you were the CEO?

1. What are the current cultural trends for the elderly?  How does your personal culture influence how you will address the aging issues of your parents?

SOC 100 Topic 6 Short-Answer Quiz

Complete the quiz in a Word document.  This is an open book quiz.  The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.

1. Compare and contrast the conflict and the functionalist perspective relative to the political system in the United States.  Select one current issue such as healthcare, immigration, or one of your choosing and discuss the issue from both perspectives.
2. Describe your family dynamics from the functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist perspectives.
3. What are the sociological characteristics of religion in the United States?  Build an argument that religion is likely to remain a strong feature of life in the United States or why religion may not remain a strong feature in the lives of Americans.
4. Select one of the sociological perspectives, the functionalist, conflict, or symbolic interactionist, and analyze the problems facing K-12 education in the United States.  Describe three or four solutions that you would like to present to your local school board to improve the educational system.

SOC 100 Topic 7 Quiz Short Answers

Complete the quiz in a Word document.  This is an open book quiz.  The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.

1. Describe the Malthusian debate relative to food in the United States today.  What are the major contributing factors to the lack of food?  Propose both private and governmental solutions to the lack of food issues in the United States.
2. What are the challenges for citizens of both urbanization and suburbanization?
3. Examine how social change has affected at least two generations in your family.  Give examples of societal changes such as technology, media, or social movements that may have had a major impact.  This could include you, your parents, grandparents, children, relatives etc.
4. What environmental issues do you view as significant for your generation?  What steps need to occur to support a sustainable environment?