Final
What is an example of secondary sex characteristic
hormones
The perspective in society that is concerned with how gender is common in our everyday lives
interactionism
why would a company outsource or contract out labor it might otherwise empathy its own staff to perform
it is cheaper
how does color blindness contribute to racial inequalities
it perpetuates racial inequalities by making subtle forms of racism difficult to recognize and therefore difficult to address
the economic system based on collective ownership of the means of production and collective distribution of goods and services is called
socialism
What do functionalists generally believe to be true about gender
some social roles are better suited to one gender than the other
why did Karl Marx believe that workers in a capitalist economy experience alienation?
they are paid for their labor
According to the human genome project, less than 0.01% of total gene pool contributes to racial differences
true
why are political action committees much more important to political campaigns now then they were in the past
unlike giving to candidates
How do we decide when to display situational ethnicity
we do a cost-benefit analysis
How are workers' situations different in socialist, as opposed to capitalist, economies?
workers in a socialist economy do not enjoy the same consumptions pattern as those in capitalist economy
Why did so many people dislike working on assembly lines?
workers never had the satisfaction of seeing the finished product
How do sociologists define race?
a social category based on real or perceived biological differences
According to your textbook, what do all religions have in common
a systems of belief and rituals
What is a sweatshop?
a workplace with poor working conditions, below standard wages, and long hours
which of the following statements are social change is true?
always happening
C Whright Mills used the term "sociological imagination" to refer to important interconnections between personal troubles and public issues. What would he have said about deprivation amplification
Both public issues and personal troubles contribute to poor health and so work needs to be done at both levels to more properly address disease rates.
what was one of the earliest theories of collective behavior
Contagion
countries with the highest obesity rates are from
North America
sociologists see race and ethnicity as social constructions because....
Racial categories change over time
What metaphor best describes culture that have embraced multi-culture
a salad bowl
a neighborhood that has no grocery store, but more liquor, connivence, and fast food outlets than most other locations is referred to as an
a food desert
How do sociologists define a minority
a group whose members are denied access to power and resources
how do sociologists define ethnicity?
a group with a shared cultural heritage
what is a political system called that denies ordinary people participation or representation in their government?
authoritarian
When does gender role socialization begin?
before birth
according to Foucault, the administration of bodies and the calculated management of life is known as
biopolities
public schools that are run by private entitles are called
charter schools
How could the Information Revolution affect urbanization?
cities might shirnk
what do sociologists call it when a large number of people either collectively or individually engage in similar behaviors
collective behavior
the spread of beliefs and practices from one cultural group to another is called
culture diffusion
Studies of doctor - patient relations find that:
doctors and patterns
what is the center means by which modern society transmits knowledge, values, and expectations to it members
education
How does a fad differ from fashion?
fads become very popular
Social movements that are organized around a belief in the social political and economic equality of the serves are called
feminism
Religious groups that emphasize literal interpretation of scared texts are called
fundamentalist
_______ is the process where some issues that used to be seen as personal problems are redefined as medial issues
medicalization
Patriarchy can defined as a society
men dominate women
Which of the following is an example of prejudice?
only searching people of certain ethnicities at the airport
According to the WHO, health is a state of complete ______ and _______ and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity
physical, mental and social well-being
C Whright Mills identifies the small and unified group of people who occupy the highest positions of the major economic, political, and military institutions and exercise tremendous influence in America social life as
power elite
tactics that are used by workers to take back some degree of control over the condition in which they work are called
resistance strategies
How do most sociologists differentiate between sex and gender?
sex is biological; gender is social
the transformation of culture over time is called
social change
According to Armand Mauss, what happened in the "incipient" stage of a social movement
the public just begins to take notice of an issue and define it as a problem
what change caused people to migrate to cities from rural areas
the switch to a manfactoring economy
what is it called when individual fishing boats harvest more fish each year in order to maximize profits while, as a result, threatening the fish population with extinction
the tragedy of the commons
in the 1900s, there was a strong prejudice against Irish immigration what does this tell you about the history of the Irish in the United States
there were significant differences between Irish people and American people
What do schools, churches, and governments all have in common?
they are all social institutions
why do people join social movements according to relative deprivation theory
they are filling a psychological need to belong to something
