Week 8 · Midterm exam

Midterm Exam — Instructions

Introduction to Sociology Free sample edition

The midterm exam's instructions page, as students read it before they start. The exam's questions and its answer key ship only inside the course's .imscc (Classic QTI); a scored exam's items are not published on this public page.

Overview

This is the scored midterm for Introduction to Sociology. It checks the first half of the course, Weeks 1 to 7, and the questions those weeks asked. How is my private life part of a public pattern, and how can three theories all be right about it? How do sociologists know what they claim to know? Where did my rules and my sense of self come from? Why do I act differently in different rooms, and who decides what counts as breaking the rules? Is the ladder real, and who is on which rung?

The midterm has 25 questions, and every question counts the same. Most questions ask you to select exactly one option (23 questions). One asks you to judge a true/false statement, and one asks you to select every applicable option. Any figure or table a question needs is printed in the question itself.

Every question practices a skill you have already used in the weekly quizzes, tutorials, and Sociology in Action Workshops. Nothing on the midterm comes from outside Weeks 1 to 7.

Coverage and scope

The midterm covers Weeks 1 to 7 and the course's first five objectives, with Objective 5 as far as stratification and class. Here is how the 25 questions divide among them:

The sociological imagination, the three perspectives, and the founders (6 questions). Taught in Week 1 and used in every week after it. Expect comparing places by rate rather than by count, and what a rate can and cannot tell you. Expect the macro and micro levels, the founders and the ideas they are known for, and the kind of evidence a public issue calls for. Expect the three perspectives applied to a later week's topic.
Research methods and reading data (2 questions). Taught in Week 2. Expect who a sample can speak for, and the difference between a change in percent and a change in percentage points. The rate-and-count reading from Week 1 also runs through the first objective's questions.
Culture and socialization (5 questions). Taught in Weeks 3 and 4. Expect material and nonmaterial culture, culture versus society, and ethnocentrism versus cultural relativism. Expect the test for a total institution, and the thinkers behind the self, with their years and ideas.
Interaction, groups, and deviance (8 questions). Taught in Weeks 5 and 6. Expect ascribed, achieved, and master statuses, front stage and back stage, and primary versus secondary groups. Expect how much deviance depends on the setting, Durkheim's account of what deviance does for a society, the conflict account's question about power, and labeling theory with Lemert's two kinds of deviance.
Stratification and class (4 questions). Taught in Week 7. Expect reading a Census Bureau poverty figure for what it does and does not show, and Weber's class, status, and party. Expect the Davis–Moore thesis against its critics, and the kinds of social mobility.

Interaction, groups, and deviance carry the most questions, so give Weeks 5 and 6 the most review time. The imagination and the perspectives come next, with 6 questions, and culture and socialization follow with 5. Week 8's level-of-analysis habit is not scored on its own, but it rests on the Week 1 and Week 2 ideas the midterm does check.

These notes map the skills the midterm checks. The questions themselves are drawn from the course's question bank and are not listed here.

Instructions

Attempts: one. The midterm is a single scored attempt.
Time limit: there is no time limit. Take the time you need, as long as you submit before the exam closes.
Window: the midterm opens in the Week 8 module and closes at the due time your instructor sets. Start early enough to finish comfortably inside that window.
Navigation: the questions appear one at a time, and once you move on you cannot go back to an earlier question. Settle each one before you click to the next.
Materials: any figure a question uses is printed in the question. A few questions ask for a short step, such as turning a count into a rate per 100,000, and scratch paper is enough for it. Unless your instructor announces otherwise, the midterm is closed-note.
After you submit: Canvas shows your score. The keyed answers stay hidden so the midterm stays fair for every student.

Academic integrity

The midterm is an individual, scored assessment, and it is closed to AI. Do not use a chatbot or any other AI tool, do not get help from another person, and do not share or post the questions during or after your attempt. These rules come from the course syllabus, which explains why. The midterm confirms that you personally can apply the perspectives, read a social statistic, and reason from evidence.

The honest way to prepare is open to you. The study guide, the practice exam, and the exam-prep tutorial rehearse the same skills with fresh variants, and nothing on them appears on the midterm word for word.

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