Midterm Exam

This exam covers all materials and lectures in your assigned reading covers so far this quarter. Choose three of the four questions below. For EACH one chosen, write a 2-3 paragraph response. In your response, be sure to refer to specific concepts from the readings, lecture notes, and/or discussions, and use these concepts to support your answer. Please state the question prior to your answer.

1. Define the sociological perspective or imagination, cite its components, and explain how they were defended by C. Wright Mills.
2. What is meant by the terms "ascribed status" and "achieved status" provide an example to illustrate how a person's ascribed status could influence his or her achieved status.
3. Discuss how conflict theorists focus on social inequality and group conflict.
4. Discuss the six types of leaders that could be in a social institution.