SOC-120 Quiz #7 - Chapters 12 & 13

Sociologists associate sexuality with _______.

A person's capacity for sexual feelings.

According to national surveys, most U.S. parents support which type of sex education program in school?

Abstinence plus sexual safety.

According to the symbolic interactionist perspective, we "do gender":

All of the time, in everything we do.

Which factor most increases the risk of an elderly person suffering mistreatment?

Being frail to the point of dependency on care

Compared to most Western societies, U.S. sexual attitudes are considered _______.

Conservative

Which of following is correct regarding the explanation for transgenderism?

Currently, there is no definitive explanation for transgenderism.

Who wrote the book On Death and Dying, outlining the five stages of grief?

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Only women are affected by gender stratification.

FALSE

To which theoretical perspective does the following statement most likely apply: Women continue to assume the responsibility in the household along with a paid occupation because it keeps the household running smoothly, i.e., at a state of balance?

Functionalism

Which theoretical perspective stresses the importance of regulating sexual behavior to ensure marital cohesion and family stability?

Functionalism

The terms "masculine" and "feminine" refer to a person's _________.

Gender

The term _______ refers to society's concept of how men and women are expected to act and how they should behave.

Gender role

Research indicates that individuals are aware of their sexual orientation _______.

In early adolescence

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act counteracts which theory?

Industrialization

What is the primary driver of modernization theory?

Industrialization

America's baby boomer generation has contributed to all of the following except:

Medicaid being in danger of going bankrupt

Which assertion about aging in men would be made by a sociologist following the functionalist perspective?

Men who remain active after retirement play supportive community roles.

In Erik Erikson's developmental stages of life, with which challenge must older people struggle?

Overcoming despair to achieve integrity

Which of the following is the best example of the role peers play as an agent of socialization for school-aged children?

Peers tend to reinforce gender roles by criticizing and marginalizing those who behave outside of their assigned roles.

Which action reflects ageism?

Speaking slowly and loudly when talking to someone over age sixty-five years old

What Western country is thought to be the most liberal in its attitudes toward sex?

Sweden

"A person who is biologically female but identifies with the male gender and has undergone surgery to alter her body is considered _______."

Transsexual

Which of the following is the best example of a gender stereotype?

Women tend to be overly emotional, while men tend to be levelheaded.

An older woman retires and completely changes her life. She is no longer raising children or working. However, she joins the YWCA to swim every day. She serves on the Friends of the Library board. She is part of a neighborhood group that plays Bunco on Saturday nights. Her situation most closely illustrates the ______ theory.

activity

If elderly people suffer abuse, it is most often perpetrated by ______.

caregivers

Veterans are two to four times more likely to ______ as people who did not serve in the military.

commit suicide

In the United States, life expectancy rates in recent decades have ______.

continued to gradually rise

Thanatology is the study of _____.

death and dying

An older man retires from his job, stops golfing, and cancels his newspaper subscription. After his wife dies, he lives alone, loses touch with his children, and stops seeing old friends. His situation most closely illustrates the _______ theory.

disengagement

Today in the United States the poverty rate of the elderly is ______.

increasing

In most countries, elderly women ______ than elderly men.

live a few years longer

The measure that compares the number of men to women in a population is ______.

sex ratio

The "graying of the United States" refers to ________.

the increasing percentage of the population over sixty-five years old

For individual people of a certain culture, the life course is ________.

the typical sequence of events in their lives

What is the approximate median age of the United States?

thirty-seven