MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which Reality is NOT considered as a social artifact? = Culture
2. The truth in symbolic interactionism is created based on what factors? = Language, community, and culture
3. Places an importance on the performance and emphasizes individual achievement. = Diffuseness
4. He is an American sociologist and functionalist who attempted to develop and perfect a general analytic model suitable
for analyzing all types of collectivities. = Talcott Parson
5. Within the culture, the essence of a thing exists in the action that it produces, which should have a/an
= Consensus on the meanings of different words or symbols.
6. Which theory says that society is a system of interconnected parts that work together to maintain balance?
= Functionalist Theory
7. This occurs when an individual has the means and desire to achieve the cultural goals socialized into him.
= Conformity
8. Karl Marx proposed that society would be better if all classes would rise up and fight until there was only one class of
people. This is ____theory. = Conflict Theory
9. A combination of the rejection of societal goals and means and a substitution of other goals and means.
= Rebellion
10. A symbolic interactionist may compare social interactions to: = Theatrical roles
11. The truth in symbolic interactionism is created based on what factors? = Self, gender, and culture
12. Which of the following traits is the characteristic of modern bourgeois society?
= Exploitative class relationships are no longer hidden.
13. When role obligations are extended outside the defined role - expectations. = Diffuseness
14. It is an approach in sociology that views society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity
and stability. = Structural - Functionalism
15. According to Marx, the history of all society up to his time is the history of ____. = Class Struggles
16. One type of communism that exists nowadays is _____________. = Anarcho-Communism
17. Which perspective is the creation of E. Durkheim? = Functionalism
18. It involves the rejection of both the culturally prescribed goals as well as the conventional means of attaining them.
= Retreatism
19. The ________ perspective focuses on how individuals act with one another in daily situations.
= Symbolic Interactionism
20. It happens when there is incompatible expectations attached to some positions in a social relationship.
= Role conflict
21. It occurs when an individual continues to do things as prescribed by society but forfeits the achievement of the goals.
= Ritualism
22. It refers to the innate qualities of individuals. = Ascription Orientation
23. This period within classical Marxism comprised the debates conducted during the first decades following Marx’s death.
= The Marxism of the Second International
24. If I define teacher as a responsible individual who wears fuzzy sweaters and drinks coffee all day, and so I behave
that way, then that is an example of which sociological theory in practice? = Symbolic Interactionism
25. Human life is in the symbolic realm. Which core principle is this? = Structural functionalism
26. Which of the three theories is the only micro theory (focuses on individual interaction)?
= Symbolic Interactionism
27. Which is NOT the main principle of symbolic interactionism? = All of the above.
28. He is the French philosopher who noticed and started to think that society was made up of building blocks that were
focused towards a common goal. = Charles Darwin
29. What perspective believes that the rational society is one built around logic and efficiency rather than morality or
tradition? = Symbolic Interactionism
30. He believed that all of history could be explained and was driven by class conflict. = Karl Marx
31. Who had been the big influence to Karl Marx? = G.W.F. Hegel
32. Which of the following is NOT a fundamental premise, according to Herbert Blumer?
= Humans behave against objects based on the significance that objects have for them
33. Within the culture, the essence of a thing exists in the action that it produces, which should have a/an __________. =
General agreement on the connotations of different words or symbols.
34. Who formulated a three-component theory of social stratification, which included class, status, and party?
= Max Weber
35. It is the process by which the newcomer becomes incorporated into the organized pattern of interaction.
= Socialization
36. Which of the following describes Social Interactionism?
= Social, economic, psychological, and cultural aspects of human actions
37. What is the reason why labeling is important to understand symbolic interactionism? = Both A and C
38. Which of the following statements is the TRUE fundamental premise of Herbert Blumer?
= None of the above.
39. Which Reality is NOT considered as a social artifact? = Culture
40. What is the main principle of symbolic interactionism? = Social action results from a fitting together of individual lines
of action
IDENTIFICATION
1. It refers to a person’s standing with regards to his/her access to resources, monetary capability, income status,
occupation, and living situation. = Socioeconomic Status
2. It refers to the innate qualities of individuals. = Ascription Orientation
3. A group of people who share similar characteristics specifically with regards to their socioeconomic status. =
Class
4. It is when role obligations are extended outside the defined role - expectations. = Diffuseness
5. It is an approach in sociology that views society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote
solidarity and stability. = Structural-Functionalism
6. It involves the rejection of both the culturally prescribed goals as well as the conventional means of attaining
them. = Retreatism
7. It refers to the conflict between different classes in a community that is composed of different social or economic
positions and opposing interests. = Class Conflict
8. It is a combination of the rejection of societal goals and means and a substitution of other goals and means. =
Rebellion
9. Population, basic biological need, and resources defined this level of culture model. = Infrastructure
10. It occurs when an individual has the means and desire to achieve the cultural goals socialised into him.
= Conformity
11 This occurs when an individual continues to do things as prescribed by society but forfeits the achievement of the
goals. = Ritualism
12. A level of culture model that described the pattern of organization. = Structure
13. His Lacan-inspired version of Marxism significantly changed the way many Marxists approached both capitalism
and hegemony after the Second World War. = Louis Althusser
14. It consists of the management class; those who own the means of production. = Bourgeoisie
15. He/She is an American sociologist and functionalist who attempted to develop and perfect a general analytic
model suitable for analyzing all types of collectivities. = Talcott Parson
16. The examples of this model are law, religion, politics, art, science, superstition, values, emotions, traditions, etc.
= Superstructure
17. It consists of the working or labor class. = Proletariat
18. It places an importance on the performance and emphasizes individual achievement. = Achievement Orientation
19. His own alterations of and dialogue with Althusserian and Lacanian thought have established him as an important
influence on the rise of globalization studies. = Fredric Jameson
20. He/She is a French philosopher who noticed and started to think that society was made up of building blocks that
were focused towards a common goal. = Emile Durkheim
MATCHING TYPE
1. Infrastructure - f. Population, basic biological need, and resources defined this level of culture model.
2. Economics - l. The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth.
3. Negative Reinforcement i. Rewards a behavior by removing an unpleasant stimulus, rather than adding a pleasant one.
4. Punishment - j. Defined as something done after a given deliberate action that lowers the chance of that action taking
place in the future.
5. Symbolic Interactionism - g. A social psychological theory developed from the work of Charles Horton Cooley and
George Herbert Mead.
6. Socioeconomic status - d. It refers to a person’s standing with regards to his/her access to resources, monetary
capability, income status, occupation, and living situation
7. Extinction - o. Defines extinction as the loss of conditioning over time when the conditioning stimuli are no longer
present. Over time, an animal (or person) will become less conditioned unless the stimuli that conditioned them in the first
place is reapplied
8. Politics - m. The activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict
among individuals or parties having or hoping to 3 achieve power.
9. Marxism h. A social, political, and economic philosophy named after Karl Marx.
10. Positive Reinforcement - n. Scribes the best-known examples of operant conditioning: receiving a reward for acting in
a certain way.
11. Socio - cultural - k. Related to the different groups of people in society and their habits, traditions, and beliefs.
12. Structural Functionalism - a. An approach in sociology that views society as a complex system whose parts work
together to promote solidarity and stability.
13. Class Conflict – e. It refers to the conflict between different classes in a community that is composed of different social
or economic positions and opposing interests.
14. Talcott Parson - c. The American sociologist and functionalist who attempted to develop and perfect a general analytic
model suitable for analyzing all types of collectivities.
15. Emile Durkheim - b. The French philosopher who noticed and started to think that society was made up of building
blocks that were focused towards a common goal.