SOC EXAM 4

If an urban neighborhood were to suddenly develop an assortment of upscale restaurants, coffee shops, hip boutiques, and art galleries, then the neighborhood is:

becoming gentrified

In the United States today, very few people marry outside of their own socioeconomic class, suggesting that there is a high degree of:

endogamy

Organizations designed to raise money to support the interests of a particular group are called:

political action committees

How does the U.S. Census Bureau define "family"?

two or more individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption who share a household

What group was most likely to move away from the urban core to the suburbs?

whites

Who is more likely to return home after a full day of paid labor and then have to put in a "second shift" at home taking care of domestic work?

women

Candidates from both major political parties in the United States spend a lot of money (millions) to try to win an election.

True

What did C. Wright Mills mean by the term "power elite"?

a small group of people who occupy key positions in political, economic, and military institutions

The study of the size, composition, distribution and change in a human population is called:

demography

What is it called when a government bars an individual, either temporarily or permanently, from voting?

disenfranchisement

Given that fertility rates in the United States have dropped below the level needed to maintain the population level, why is the population here growing?

immigration

The shift of large segments of the population away from the urban core and toward the edges of cities is called:

suburbanization

According to C. Wright Mills, who rules America?

the power elite

Arlie Hochschild's study of two-income families found that women were much more likely to do the majority of the unpaid labor inside the home even after a full day's work outside the home. What term is used to describe this extra labor?

the second shift

According to conflict theory, how does the nuclear family facilitate exploitation?

through a sexual division of labor within the home