SOC 101 Final MindTap

Which statement is true regarding domestic violence?

Which statement is true regarding domestic violence?

What family unit often includes grandparents, uncles, aunts, or other relatives who live close to the parents and children, making it possible for family members to share resources?

an extended family

The term __________ refers to a network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.

kinship

Today, about ____________ of U.S. undergraduates are educated in community colleges.

50 percent

What is NOT a primary microlevel reason for high rates of teenage pregnancy?

Some teenage females believe that males should be responsible for contraception.

Which of the following is NOT a major issue facing contemporary K-12 education?

class segregation

Which is the term for part-time or temporary work that offers advantages to employers but that can be detrimental to the welfare of workers?

contingent work

Which is the term for an organization that has legal powers separate from its individual owners?

corporation

According to French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, ____________ refers to a person's social assets, including knowledge of how to dress, language competency, and knowledge of art and music.

cultural capital

Which is the term for a household arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a committed, sexually intimate relationship and is granted the same rights and benefits as those accorded to married couples?

domestic partnership

A religious organization that is well-integrated in society and claims membership by all members of a society is known as a(n)

ecclesia

According to functionalists, religion has three important functions in society. What is NOT one of those functions?

established individual independence

Which religious faith includes people who are most fearful about secularization and who believe that sacred traditions must be revitalized in the face of modernity?

fundamentalists

According to the functionalist perspective, what is NOT one of the key functions families serve in advanced industrial societies?

guaranteed reproduction

Although there is a 40-50 percent chance that a first marriage will end in either divorce or separation before one partner dies, there is a decrease in risk of divorce for people who

have an intact family of origin

Which of the following is NOT one of the five major characteristics of professions?

informal knowledge

According to the functionalist perspective, all social institutions, including education, have functions that are the hidden, unstated, and sometimes unintended consequences of their activities. What are these functions called?

latent functions

Which of the following is NOT one of the four main functions of government according to contemporary functionalists?

managing political action committees

Few societies have residential patterns known as __________ residence, which refers to the custom of a married couple living in the same household (or community) as the wife's parents?

matrilocal

In the political system of _______, power resides in one person or family and is passed from generation to generation through lines of inheritance.

monarchy

In preindustrial societies, kinship is usually traced through one parent (unilineally). The most common pattern of unilineal descent is __________, which is a system of tracing descent through the father's side of the family.

patrilineal descent

Which term defines an organization whose purpose is to gain and hold legitimate control of government?

political party

What is the social institution through which power is acquired and exercised by some people and groups?

politics

Which is the term for the concurrent marriage of one man with two or more women?

polygyny

Most workers in preindustrial economies (such as hunting and gathering, horticultural and pastoral, and agrarian societies) engage in __________, which is the extraction of raw materials and natural resources from the environment.

primary sector production

Which theorist focuses on classroom communication patterns and educational practices that affect students' self-concepts and aspirations?

symbolic interactionists

Which statement is NOT true regarding both education and religion?

they are relatively new social institutions

Which political system widely uses mass propaganda and electronic surveillance to influence people's thinking and control their actions?

totalitarianism

According to Weber, __________ authority is power that is legitimized on the basis of long-standing custom.

traditional

A religious belief in sacred principles of thought and conduct rather than in a god or gods is known as

transcendent idealism