SOC100 Week
1 Quiz Latest 2018 March
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz 1
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 1
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.
SOC100 Week
2 Quiz Latest 2018 March
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz 2
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 2
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?
SOC100 Week
3 Quiz Latest 2018 March
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz3
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 3
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?
SOC100 Week
4 Quiz Latest 2018 March
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz4
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 4
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?
2. From your perspective, what are the current shifts in global
stratification? How does this affect the economic and political power of the
United States?
3. In the current economic situation in the United States what do
you project will happen to social mobility and the American Dream?
4. Describe the Horatio Alger myth. Based on your own experience
discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the myth for both men and women.
SOC100 Week
5 Quiz Latest 2018 March
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz5
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 5
1. Describe the difference between race and ethnicity. What roles
do race and social class continue to play in the United States?
2. 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.
3. What should society do to reduce the possibility of
discrimination in the workplace? What policies would you propose if you were
the CEO?
4. 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?
SOC100 Week
6 Quiz Latest 2018 March
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz6
Complete the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz.
The answer to each question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 6
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.
SOC100 Week
7 Quiz Latest 2018 March
SOC-100
Short-Answer Quiz7
Complete
the quiz in a Word document. This is an open book quiz. The answer to each
question must be 100-125 words.
Topic 7
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?
