Sociology Exam 4

Which theory of education focuses on the ways in which education maintains the status quo?

Conflict theory

Which of the following is not a manifest function of education?

Courtship

Which of the following organizations is not an example of a social movement?

National Football League

The United States has the highest rate of obesity and research shows that high-income countries tend to have high obesity rates. What is one reason a social epidemiologist would give for this?

People in high-income countries tend to live a sedentary lifestyle which leads to obesity.

According to the World Health Organization, what was the most frequent cause of death for children under five in low-income countries?

Pneumonia and diarrheal diseases

What does the individual mandate provision of the 2010 U.S. healthcare reform do?

Requires everyone to have insurance or pay a penalty

Which program is an example of socialized medicine?

The United States' Veterans Health Administration

What group created the Millennium Development Goals?

The World Health Organization

Which of the following would be the best example of a social movement at the national level?

The rights of LBGT citizens to get married in any area of the United States.

Which of the following is not part of the rights and responsibilities of a sick person under the functionalist perspective?

The sick person can take as long as she wants to get better.

The 1972 case Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia set a precedent for __________.

access to education

Sidewalk ramps and Braille signs are examples of _______________.

accommodations required by the Americans with Disabilities Act forms of accessibility for people with disabilities

When sociologists think about technology as an agent of social change, which of the following is not an example?

population

A boy throwing rocks during a demonstration might be an example of ___________.

precipitating factors

If a movement claims that the best way to reverse climate change is to reduce carbon emissions by outlawing privately owned cars, "outlawing cars" is the ________.

prognostic framing

Plessy v. Ferguson set the precedent that _____________.

racial segregation in schools was allowed

What are the major factors that affect education systems throughout the world?

resources and money

While PETA is a social movement organization, taken together, the animal rights social movement organizations PETA, ALF, and Greenpeace are a __________.

social movement industry

Great Britain's healthcare system is an example of ______________.

socialized medicine

Who determines which illnesses are stigmatized?

society

What term describes the separation of students based on merit?

sorting

In addition to social movements, social change is also caused by technology, social institutions, population and ______.

the environment

What is social epidemiology?

the study of the causes and distribution of diseases

When the League of Women Voters successfully achieved its goal of women being allowed to vote, they had to undergo frame __________, a means of completely changing their goals to ensure continuing relevance.

transformation

Which of the following is an example of collective behavior?

A group of people interested in hearing an author speak

Which of the following statements is not true?

Blacks have lower cancer rates than whites.

Which public healthcare system offers insurance primarily to people over sixty-five years old?

Medicare

Which theory of education focuses on the labels acquired through the educational process?

Symbolic interactionism

How would the medicalization of society influence the way someone who feels sad after the loss of a loved one is treated?

The individual would be treated as having a medical disease and would be treated with anti-depressants rather than counseling.

What would social epidemiology tell a sociologist about healthcare needs that must be addressed in the United States?

There is a disparity in minority and lower income child health.

How would a researcher study medical sociology based on the conflict theory?

They might look at the lack of quality health care access for lower paid workers.

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.

Sociologists using conflict perspective might study what?

What motivates inequitably treated people to join a movement

Chronic fatigue syndrome is an example of _______________.

a contested illness

According to emergent-norm theory, crowds are:

able to develop their own definition of the situation

The protesters at the Egypt uprising rally were:

an acting crowd

A person reports constant and excessive worry about household messes, and experiences strong urges to clean the house on a daily basis. Which category of mental disorders would this person fall under?

anxiety

The class, race, and gender inequalities in our healthcare system support the _____________ perspective.

conflict

Learning from classmates that most students buy lunch on Fridays is an example of ________.

cultural transmission

The removal of homosexuality from the DSM is an example of ____________.

demedicalization

Functionalist theory sees education as serving the needs of _________.

families society the individual

Core nations are also known as __________________

high-income nations

The process by which aspects of life that were considered bad or deviant are redefined as sickness and needing medical attention to remedy is called:

medicalization

China is undergoing a shift in industry, increasing labor specialization and the amount of differentiation present in the social structure. This exemplifies:

modernization

Many deaths in high-income nations are linked to __________________

obesity

Public schools must guarantee that ___________.

per-student spending is equitable

Conflict theorists see sorting as a way to ________.

perpetuate divisions of socioeconomic status

Core nations that work to propel peripheral nations toward modernization need to be aware of:

preserving peripheral nation cultural identity preparing for pitfalls that come with modernization avoiding hegemonistic assumptions about modernization

Informal education _________________.

refers to the learning of cultural norms

If we divide social movements according to their positions among all social movements in a society, we are using the __________ theory to understand social movements.

resource mobilization

What kind of study helps to determine of which health concerns tend to be most prevalent in different countries?

social epidemiology

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

The high unemployment rate among the disabled may be a result of ____________.

stigmatization

Social movements are:

the collective action of individuals working together in an attempt to establish new norms beliefs, or values

Children in peripheral nations have little to no daily access to computers and the Internet, while children in core nations are constantly exposed to this technology. This is an example of:

the digital divide

The Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) is an example of ________________

the social construction of health

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