HCC SOCI1301 Final Exam Latest 2020 September

SOCI1301 Introduction to Sociology

Final Exam

Question 1Ethnicity describes shared:

  religion

  any of the listed answers

  language

  beliefs

 Question 2Which theoretical perspective stress the important of regulating sexual behavior to ensure marital cohesion and family stability?

  Conflict theory

  Symbolic Interactionalism

  Functionalism

  Queer Theory

 Question 3Women being married to more than one man at the same time is called:

  polygamy

  polyandry

  monogamy

  polygyny

 Question 4A child who associate his line of descent with his father’s side only is part of a ____ society.

  matrilineal

  patrilineal

  matrilocal

  bilateral

 Question 5A family composed of married parent and children is called:

  a consanguine family

  an extended family

  a nuclear family

  a family of affinity

 Question 6Which socialist perspective most emphasizes the ways in which religion helps to maintain social inequality within a society?

  Feminist perspective

  Conflict theory

  Functional

  Symbolic interactionalist

 Question 7It refers to those aspects of life that are extraordinary or supernatural

  Profane

  Sacred

  Secularization

  Animism

 Question 8Emile Durkheim pointed to three societal function of religion. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

  providnig social control

  fostering social conflict

  providing meaning and purpose

  fostering social cohesion

 Question 9Karl Marx believed that religion:

  treats existing society as secular and corrupt

  undermines the power of the state

  reinforces that unequal economic status quo

  focuses life on the present rather than the future

 Question 10Polytheism refers to:

  belief that all things in the world are sacred

  acceptance of many religions as true

  belief in many gods

  openness to new religious experience

 Question 11Education is the social institution by which society provides people with important knowledge, including:

  job skills

  basic facts and information

  cultural norms and values

  all are correct

 Question 12The most basic manifest function of education is

  transmitting knowledge

  transmitting culture

  maintain social control

  serving as an agent of change

 Question 13Capitalism is an economic system in which there is:

  government control of production

  private ownership of property

  pursuit of collective interests

  all are correct

 Question 14The study of the size, composition, distribution, and change in human population

  Emigration

  Mortality rate

  Demography

  Infant mortality rate

 Question 15Thomas Robert Malthus believed that:

  the world could sustain an ever-larger population

  industrialization would reduce the birth rate

  population increase would bring chaos to the world

  the key to limiting population increase is birth control

 Question 16Fertility rate refers to:

  life expectancy for a nation’s population

  a measure of population growth through reproduction

  the maximum number of children a woman can have

  the incidence of childbearing in a nation’s population

 Question 17The incidence of death in a population

  Mortality

  Population Composition

  Migration

  Population Growth

 Question 18The study of human population and their impact on the natural world

  Social environment

  Social biosphere

  Social problem

  Social ecology

 Question 19Social Movement is:

  have passed the industrial era

  an organized collective activity to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society

  have yet to industrialize

  continue to maintain their traditions

 Question 20In addition to social movement, social change is also caused by technology, social institutions, population and _____.

  the environment

  modernization

  new social movement

  social structure