Soc Midterm 3

Alienation was a concept that Marx expounded in "The 1844 Manuscripts." The fundamental concept of Alienation can be described as...

A radical tearing or separation in the human being.

According to your text, wast economic change has made it more difficult for workers to strike effectively?

The ease with which manufacturing firms can move operation to another country.

The pattern of AIDS in Africa in the 1980's is best explained by...

The migrant labor system in Eastern and Central Africa.

The Babbage Principle and Taylorism assisted in what major modern trend(s) in industry?

The mobility of capital. The use of unskilled labor in production processes. The movement of production from the First World to the Third World. (All of the above)

C. Wright Mills is mentioned in your text. According to Mills, who rules America?

The power elite.

What reason in class was presented for the ultimate disappearance of Hysteria and the Cult of Female Invalidism?

The professionalization of Medicine and the removal of women from the practice of medicine. The Flexner report which eliminated for profit medical schools and required for a four year undergraduate education for admittance to medical school. Physicians no longer needed to keep rich women as well as paying patients, they had become the highest paid profession. (All of the above)

According to your text, what is the key to new technology that was integral to the Industrial Revolution?

The steam engine.

According to your text, how have social networking websites affected social groups?

They help people make the most of both their primary and secondary groups.

How were the poor and working class women, as well as women of color, affected by the disease of hysteria?

They were not affected by the disease of hysteria?

In the film"Tough Guise" Jackson Katz argues that a hypermasculine role model has been created in the US...

Through an interactive process with the media. As a reaction to the movements of the 90's. That is very important for young men. (All of the above)

In the film "Slim Hopes" Jean Killbourne argues that the anxiety concerning weight in women....

Begins very early, as early as grade school.

According to your text, what is the central means by which modern society transmits knowledge, values, and expectations to its members?

Education.

When Michael Pollan talks about "re-regionalizing" the food system in the US, what does he mean?

Localizing national food policy and supporting a locavore agenda.

According to Barbara Ehrenreich, what do workers with minimum wage service jobs need to do to get ahead and move up in the world?

Nothing; there's no way for them to move up.

According to your text, what type of group provides most of our emotional satisfaction?

Primary groups.

According to your textbook, what does recent research show about the aftermath of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina?

That new types of local organizations emerge in response to the emergency.

In 2005 teaching assistants at the U of O went on strike. What feature of their job made it easier for them to strike than most American workers?

Their jobs can't be moved overseas.

What major differences were apparent in the epidemic of AIDS when it was examined in the 1980's in Africa and the United States?

There was a higher rate of AIDS in the general population in Africa. The sex ratios were different in the new areas. Fewer infants were infected in the US. In Africa, AIDS was a disease infecting heterosexuals, in the US it infected largely male homosexuals. (All of the above)

Hysteria and anorexia/bulimia were compared in class. How are the similar?

They are both socially created and gender related diseases.

What is a sweatshop According to your textbook?

A place with poor working conditions, below standard wages, and long hours.

A criticism of postmodern concepts of illness was proposed in class. It was asserted that post modernism..

Agues what we create illness socially. Implies that there is nothing but ideology when studying illnesses. Fails to recognize the material reality of illness. (All of the above)

According to your text, Emile Durkheim worried that, an increasingly fragmented modern world, individuals would feel less connected to groups, which would lead to..

Anomie, or normlessness.

Whereas the top causes of death in the US are ________, those in the developing world are continually affected by the threat of __________.

Chronic; acute

Jackson Katz in the film "Tough Guise" argues that violence in the US is...

Committed mostly by males. Targets mostly males. Is a gender related crime. (All of the above)

Which theoretical explanation for suicide argues that when one person commits suicide, this can set off a cluster of other suicides?

Contaigon.

The Great Migration of African Americans out of the South and to the North accomplished what major change in the United States?

Created an urban working class in the North.

The Babbage Principle and Taylorism, new ways to organize work that were introduced at the turn of the 19th century to the 10th century, did what to the organization of the work process?

Deskilled the work of required workers.

In the world as observed in the late 1980's, when the instructor wrote his article on AIDS that was presented in class, AIDS was a disease that occurred all over Africa and was evenly distributed throughout the continent. True or False?

False

Jean Killbourne argues that the media is the sole cause of the obsession with thinness in out society/ True or False?

False

In class it was asserted that an epidemic, a disease, cannot be understood historically or socially but must be understood exclusively through its biology. True or false?

False.

In class it was asserted that the terms sex and gender can be used interchangeably and essentially mean the same thing. True or false?

False.

A matrilinear social system means that...

Family descent is followed through the mother's line.

A neighborhood where there is no grocery store, but more liquor, convenience, and drug stores, and fast food outlets is referred to as a...

Food desert.

The Cult of Female Invalidism achieved what purpose(s)?

Helped maintain male, patriarchal dominance in Victorian America. Assisted in the removal of women from the practice of medicine in the US. Made all things female including childbirth and menstruation illnesses. (All of the above)

When we mention terms such as sexual orientation, gender, or race we usually think of the least powerful of these terms such as gays, women, and blacks. How does this affect dominance in society according to Jackson Katz?

It makes dominance invisible and easier for the dominant group.

According to your text, what evidence suggests that America's educational system is in crisis?

Literacy rates are low. Standardized test scores are lower than in other industrialized countries. Teachers are poorly paid. School infrastructure is in poor condition. (All of the above)

Michelle Alexander has written a book entitles "The New Jim Crowe" that has ben frequently mentioned in class. This book asserts that...

Mass incarceration has become a system to eliminate rights for African Americans without mentioning race.

Your text discusses the Information Revolution. What technological development is associated with the Information Revolution?

Microchips.

According to your text, what disadvantages do critics of globalization claim will result from increased international trade?

Multinational corporations will increasingly shape the policies of governments.

According to Marx's concept of Alienation, individuals are alienated from...

Others. Themselves. The work process. The Production of their work. (All of the above)

We discussed the disease of Hysteris in class. This illness was important in the era from 1880 to 1920 and then disappeared. Who was affected by this disease?

Rich, white women.

Jean Killbourne, in her film "Slim Hopes" argues that food has been associated in advertising with what other human aspect?

Sex.

The article on AIDS that you read for class and the lecture asserted that AIDS would soon appear where and would spread rapidly?

South Africa.

the fact that schools schedules are organized around Christmas is evidence...

That the US is not a totally secular society.

According to your text, what is it called when a government seeks to control every aspect of life?

Totalitarianism.

According to your text, Max Weber states that, in his topology of power, a king is wielding what type of authority?

Traditional power.

According to your text our physical bodies are embedded in social relations. This means health is both physical and social. True or false?

True.

According to your text, the economic benefits of outsourcing are gained by businesses but the disadvantages are felt by workers. True or false?

True.

Your text mentions 527 committees. Why are these committees much more important to political campaigns now than they were in the past?

Unlike candidates or political parties, there are no limits in how much money an individual can give to them.

Recently, epidemiologists are studying the role of temperature increases in the spread of diseases globally. According to your text, epidemiologists have found that increases in temperature can also increase pathogen-carrying agents called...

Vector agents.