Week 16 · Final exam

Final Exam — Instructions

Introduction to Sociology Free sample edition

The final 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 final exam for the course. It is cumulative: its questions reach all eight course objectives, from the sociological imagination in Week 1 to population and social change in Week 15. It is given in Week 16, the finals week, which has no new material.

The exam has 40 questions, and every question counts the same. Most of them, 34 in all, are multiple choice with one best answer. Four ask you to select every choice that fits, and two are true/false statements to judge. Sixteen questions are on the easier side, 21 are of medium difficulty, and 3 are harder. Every question rehearses a skill you already practiced in the weekly quizzes, the tutorials, the Sociology in Action Workshops, and the paired practice final.

Coverage and scope

The questions were drawn from the course's question bank, and every one of the eight objectives appears at least once. The draw does not spread evenly across the weeks, though. Here is what this form actually contains, first by the week each question's material comes from and then by objective.

The final's 40 questions by the week whose material each question comes from, with the objectives those questions assess
Week	Topic	Questions	Objectives assessed
6	Deviance, crime, and social control	1	Objective 4 (1)
9	Global inequality	5	Objective 5 (4), Objective 2 (1)
10	Race and ethnicity	8	Objective 6 (6), Objective 2 (2)
11	Sex, gender, and sexuality	6	Objective 6 (4), Objective 1 (2)
12	Family and marriage	4	Objective 7 (3), Objective 6 (1)
13	Education and religion	6	Objective 7 (5), Objective 3 (1)
14	Economy, work, and politics	6	Objective 7 (5), Objective 5 (1)
15	Population, urbanization, and social change	4	Objective 8 (4)

The final's eight objectives, the weeks that teach each one, and the number of the exam's 40 questions on each
Objective	What the questions ask you to do	Weeks that teach it	Questions on this exam
Objective 1	Apply the sociological imagination and the three perspectives, naming the level of analysis	1	2
Objective 2	Read research methods and social statistics critically, keeping correlation apart from cause	2	3
Objective 3	Analyze culture and socialization	3, 4	1
Objective 4	Explain interaction, groups, organizations, and deviance	5, 6	1
Objective 5	Analyze stratification, class, and global inequality	7, 9	5
Objective 6	Analyze race and ethnicity and sex, gender, and sexuality as socially constructed categories	10, 11	11
Objective 7	Explain the major social institutions through the three perspectives	12, 13, 14	13
Objective 8	Analyze population, urbanization, and social change	15	4

Read the two tables together. Thirty-nine of the 40 questions come from the material of Weeks 9–15, and one comes from Week 6. No question is drawn from the Weeks 1–5, 7, or 8 material directly. The institutions (Objective 7, 13 questions) and race, ethnicity, sex, and gender (Objective 6, 11 questions) together carry 24 of the 40, so put most of your review there.

The early objectives still count. Seven questions assess Objective 1 through Objective 4, and each of them sits inside a later week's material. The three perspectives come back in the gender week, the four data questions come back on the global and census figures, and the hidden curriculum returns from your socialization week inside Week 13's look at schooling. The tools from Weeks 1 and 2, the three lenses with their levels of analysis and the four questions you ask of any statistic, run through almost every question on the exam.

These notes map the skills the exam assesses. The questions themselves are drawn from the bank and are not listed here.

Instructions

Attempts: one. The final is a single scored attempt.
Time limit: none. There is no time limit, so take the time you need while the exam is open.
Window: the exam opens in Week 16. Your instructor sets the open and close times in Canvas, and the exam locks when it closes.
Navigation: the questions appear one at a time, and you cannot go back to an earlier question once you move on. Settle each question before you continue.
Order: the choices within each question are shuffled for each student.
Materials: a few questions ask you to read a figure or to work a short subtraction, such as a change in percentage points, so a basic calculator can help. Your instructor will tell you which other materials, if any, are allowed. AI tools are not permitted.
After you submit: your result is recorded. The keyed choices are not shown, because the questions come from a bank shared with other course assessments.

Academic integrity

This is an individual, scored assessment, and the work must be your own. That means no help from another person, no shared or posted questions, and no AI tools of any kind. The final confirms that you personally can apply the perspectives, read a social statistic, and reason from evidence.

The honest way to prepare is the rest of the final's bundle: the study guide, the exam-prep tutorial, and the practice final. They rehearse the same skills with fresh variants, and nothing in them appears on this exam.

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