Sociology chapter 13,14,15,16
Same-sex couple households account for _____ percent of U.S. households
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According to the study cited by the U.S. Census Bureau, children who live with married parents grow up with more advantages than children who live with:
A single parent
Video lesson, according to the study cited by the U.S. Cersus Bureau children who live with married parents grow up with more advantages than children who live with?
A single parent
The 1972 case Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia set a precedent for __________.
Access to Education
Research suggests that people generally feel that their current family is _______ than the family they grew up with.
At least as close
Which factor most increases the risk of an elderly person suffering mistreatment?
Being frail to the point of dependency on care
What do Christianity and Islam have in common?
Both believe in a single supreme god, Both share many of the same stories in their central religious text, Both believe in an afterlife.
If elderly people suffer abuse, it is most often perpetrated by ______.
Caregivers
In what part of the world have Confucianism and Taoism been primarily practiced?
China
Which theory of education focuses on the ways in which education maintains the status quo?
Conflict Theory
Which socialist perspective most emphasizes the ways in which religion helps to maintain social inequalities within a society?
Conflict theory
Which of the following is not a manifest function of education?
Courtship
Learning from classmates that most students buy lunch on Fridays is an example of ________.
Cultural Transmission
Thanatology is the study of _____.
Dealth and Dying
Who wrote the book On Death and Dying, outlining the five stages of grief?
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Functionalist theory sees education as serving the needs of _________.
Families, Society, the Individual
Which perspective most emphasizes the ways in which religion helps keep the social system running smoothly?
Functional perspective
Video lesson, a parent-teacher association is an example of a ________ found within the social institution of education.
Group
Video lesson, The information, subtle social norms that we learn from education are sometimes referred to as the ___________________.
Hidden curriculum
In general, children in ______ households benefit from divorce.
High-conflict
Today in the United States the poverty rate of the elderly is ______
Increasing
Which of the following is a criticism of the family life cycle model?
It is too narrowly focused on a sequence of stages.
In most countries, elderly women ______ than elderly men.
Live a few years longer
America's baby boomer generation has contributed to all of the following except:
Medicaid being in danger of going bankrupt
What are some denominations of the Christian Protestant church?
Methodist and Seventh-day Adventist
Children of divorced parents are _______ to divorce in their own marriage than children of parents who stayed married.
More likely
Which of the following is true of intimate partner violence (IPV)?
Nearly half of instances of IPV involve drugs or alcohol.
Which type of child abuse is most prevalent in the United States?
Neglect
video lesson, what is not an explanation for the interesting numbers of single-parent families?
No longer a stigma attached
In Erik Erikson's developmental stages of life, with which challenge must older people struggle?
Overcoming despair to achieve integrity
Which of the following do the functionalist and conflict perspectives share?
Position that religion relates to social control, enforcing social norms
In what ways does religion serve the role of a social institution?
Religions have a complex and integrated set of norms, Religious practices and beliefs are related to societal values, Religions often meet several basic needs.
What are the major factors that affect education systems throughout the world?
Resources and money
Video lesson, worshippers, perform specific _________ within the social institution of religion
Roles
Some controversial groups that may be mislabeled as cults include:
Scientology and the Hare Krishna
Because she plans on achieving success in marketing, Tammie is taking courses on managing social media. This is an example of ________.
Social Placement
Allowing a student to move to the next grade regardless of whether or not they have met the requirements for that grade is called ____________.
Social Promotion
Key predictors for student success include ____________.
Socioeconomic status and family background
What term describes the separation of students based on merit?
Sorting
Which action reflects ageism?
Speaking slowly and loudly when talking to someone over age sixty-five years old
Current divorce rates are:
Steadily declining
Which theory of education focuses on the labels acquired through the educational process?
Symbolic Interactionism
Which of the main theoretical perspectives would approach religion from the micro-level, studying how religion impacts an individual's sense of support and well-being?
Symbolic interactionism
What do nations that are top-ranked in science and math have in common?
They recruit top teachers.
Conflict theorists see IQ tests as being biased. Why?
They reward affluent students with questions that assume knowledge associated with upper-class culture.
What term describes the assignment of students to specific education programs and classes on the basis of test scores, previous grades, or perceived ability?
Tracking
Rewarding students for meeting deadlines and respecting authority figures is an example of ________.
Transmission of moral education
The Protestant work ethic was viewed in terms of its relationship to:
capitalism
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
The main difference between an ecclesia and a denomination is:
ecclesia are state-sponsored and considered an official religion
Sociologists tend to define family in terms of
how a given society sanctions the relationships of people who are connected through blood, marriage, or adoption
The median age of first marriage has ______ in the last fifty years.
increased for both men and women
A cultural universal is something that:is found in all cultures
is found in all cultures
Megachurches tend to have:
large arenas where services are held
Social scientists refer to the use of a church to combat social injustice in the political realm as:
liberation theology
Video lesson, _________, learning is more important in todays society because of pace of change is so rapid
lifelong
A sect:
often believes it must split from the larger group to return to important fundamentals
A child who associates his line of descent with his father's side only is part of a _____ society.
patrilineal
Public schools must guarantee that ___________
per-student spending is equitable
Conflict theorists see sorting as a way to ________
perpetuate divisions of socioeconomic status
A woman being married to two men would be an example of:
polyandry
Plessy v. Ferguson set the precedent that _____________
racial segregation in schools was allowed
Informal education _________________.
refers to the learning of cultural norms c.only takes place at home d.relies on a planned instructional process B
The measure that compares the number of men to women in a population is ______.
sex ratio
Many stories in the sacred text of Judaism are:
shared by Christianity and Islam
Couples who cohabitate before marriage are ______ couples who did not cohabitate before marriage to be married at least ten years.
slightly less likely than
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
The majority of U.S. children live in
two-parent households