SOC225

Hanson, Kivisto, and Hartung assert that in 2003 the top 1/5 of all households in the US earned about __________ of all the income earned.

50%

QUIZ1

CH 1-4

Acker argues in her article that __________ is gendered and racialized.

Capitalism

QUIZ 8

Ch 36-41

QUIZ 9

Ch 42-47

QUIZ 10

Ch 48-49, 52

QUIZ 3

Ch 9-14

QUIZ 2

Ch5-8

Bertrand and Mullainathan found that persons with names such as _________ and __________ were considered more hirable than persons with names such as __________ and ___________.

Emily, Greg; Lakisha, Jamal

What is the codename, according to the article by Buck, for the policy of forced, and probably military, deportation of 12 million unauthorized immigrants first initiated by the Bush administration?

Endgame

___________, according to Desmond and Emirbayer, refers to a shared lifestyle informed by cultural, historical, religious, and/or national affiliations.

Ethnicity

____________ is defined by Lynn Weber as a power relationship resulting from and reinforcing the unequal distribution of productive assets in society.

Exploitation

Wright's article bases his analysis of class on the work of what theorist?

Marx

What theory does Glenn suggest best explains the intersection of gender and race?

Social Constructionism

In Massey's article, within any social setting, the definition of boundaries and the content of social categories are disproportionately influenced by people:

at the top of the socioeconomic hierarchy

Massey states that the definition of categorical boundaries and the content of conceptual categories are NOT:

automatic

Crawley, Foley, and Shehan assert the notion that women and men have been bred to be different animals, adapting to evolutionary functional necessities, is known as:

biological determinism

According to Wendell, which of the following can prevent disability?

built environment

Wright defines ________ as a social category sharing a common set of subjectively salient attributes within a system of stratification.

class

Cose argues that raced individuals face a dozen ______ that remind them that they are not quite good enough

demons

.Hess argues that certain populations do not have equal access and opportunity to online resources which is also known as:

digital inequality

According to Dill and Zambrana, the ___________ domain consists of the ideas and practices that characterize and sustain bureaucratic hierarchies.

disciplinary

According to Acker, theory and research on inequality, dominance, and oppression must pay attention to which of the following aspects, EXCEPT

education

The term used by Crawley, Foley, and Shehan, to refer to knowledge of self and others via experiences of one's body, is:

embodied knowledge

In Bertrand and Mullainathan's article, they were interested in how race-ethnicity and racism affected which of the following?

employment hiring decisions

In regard to gender, Crawley, Foley, and Shehan state that the notion that there is an enduring truth to be found if only we look hard enough, is known as:

essentialism

Crawley, Foley, and Shehan argue that our gender roles are mainly determined by our genetic selves as male or female.

fale

According to Alexander, the US legal system is not a system of racialized social control.

false

According to Hess, perpetrators of the Internet harassment are routinely dismissed as sensitive pranksters

false

As stated by Desmond and Emirbayer, you are born with your race the same as you are born with fingers, eyes and hair.

false

Diana Kendall, professor of sociology at Baylor University, examines how the media frames stories about race.

false

Dill and Zambrana suggest that race, ethnicity, physical ability, age, sexuality, and gender need to be studied as separate, independent constructs to be fully explained by theorists.

false

Grochowski illustrates four cases of how social determinants, such as race-ethnicity, gender, income, occupation, etc. can affect social class.

false

Katz posits that heterosexuality is as old as human beings.

false

Lachmann argues that the source of American decline is the less control by elites over fiscal and civilian policies.

false

Lerner asserts that many other theorists have been misguided by focusing too much on social class when writing about inequality relating to gender.

false

Nacos and Torres-Reyna describe the changes in the news reporting of Muslim and Arab Americans, and not-surprisingly, all of their findings are negative.

false

Polgar argues that Jewish people inherit culture through communities and membership in a tribe through patrilineal decent

false

Weber claims that power resides in the hands of the average citizen in society.

false

Wendell argues that disability, unlike many other social constructs, has the advantage of being quantifiable and can be defined in biomedical terms.

false

Wright defines a capitalist as anyone who owns the machines used in the production function of capital creation.

false

Zuberi posits that early European scientists resisted viewing race as a scientific concept, but were eventually influenced by racist hate groups.

false

According to Massey, whenever a person works to convince others in society to accept a particular categorization of social reality, the process is called __________.

framing

Lerner defines __________ as the different roles and behavior deemed appropriate to each of the sexes.

gender

Hondagneu-Sotelo examines the ___________ nature of Mexican immigrant work.

gendered

According to Polgar, Jewish people affirm culture through many ways EXCEPT

hard work

Blitstein looks specifically at how Geronimus' research challenged the 1970s' assumption that teen pregnancy only had negative _________ outcomes, while in fact, teen pregnancy had different outcomes for girls based on their race and socioeconomic status.

health

Grochowski's article found how social determinants, such as race-ethnicity, gender, income, occupation, etc. can affect:

health

Wailoo's article focuses on how __________________ are affected by a wide array of issues in public health, innovation in medical care, and the role of identity, especially gender, race, and ethnicity.

health and disease

According to Hondagneu-Sotelo, thousands of Central American and Mexican immigrant women have replaced many Latino men in the US workforce, due to the need for cheap labor in which of the following areas?

home care/child care

____________, according to Lerner, is the practice of restricting marriages to people within the same propertied group.

homogamy

Hanson, Kivisto, and Hartung studies, in their article, the effects of power and inequality _____________________.

in the United States

According to Acker, _________________________ are defined as the "interrelated practices, processes, actions, and meanings that result in and maintain social class, gender, and racial inequalities".

inequality regimes

Dill and Zambrana propose a(n) _______________ approach to think about inequality.

intersectional

According to Massey, stratification:

is produced by specific arrangements in human societies that allow exploitation and opportunity hoarding to occur along categorical lines

According to Hess, the female percentage of fledging internet company founders in 2010 was:

less than 10 percent

Rubin indicates the connection between social class and ____________ health.

mental

Katz argues that heterosexuality is a ___________ concept.

modern

Nacos and Torres-Reyna's article found what about news stories about Muslim and Arab Americans after 9/11?

not all findings were negative

"Coming out," according to Samuels, is a(n) ___________ event.

on-going

According to Lynn Weber, _____________ exists when one group has historically gained power and control over valued assets of a society by exploiting the labor and lives of other groups and then by using those assets to secure its position of power into the future.

oppression

Polgar classifies four Jewish movements or streams including reform, conservative, _______ and reconstructionist Judaism

orthodox

A person's _________, as defined by Desmond and Emirbayer, is her or his physical appearance and constitution, including skeletal structure, height, hair texture, eye color, and skin tone.

phenotype

Wailoo argues that the health crisis that occurred in dialysis patients after Hurricane Katrina can be traced to:

poverty and race

A symbolic category, based on phenotype or ancestry and constructed according to specific social and historical contexts, that is misrecognized as a natural category, according to Desmond and Emirbayer, is the definition for the term:

race

Buck asserts that in order to move toward equality, which of the following concepts needs to be eliminated?

race

Blitstein's article investigates how ___________________ may affect the understanding and incidence of illness.

race and racism

In the Glenn article, which of the following way do women of color prefer to think of the intersection of race and gender, rather than "double jeopardy?"

racialized gender

Samuels analyzes the similarities between disability and:

sexual orientation

Grochowski argues that the connection between wealth and health has been recognized widely as a cause of health disparities in the U.S., but the interactive nature of the __________ is still less understood.

social determinants

According to Zuberi, the combination of African slaves and European capital became a model of success in the following European country:

spain

According to Zuberi, which nation started the European slave trade of Africans to the Americas in 1502?

spain

Kendall examines how _______________ construct a reality of social class that is not an accurate reflection of American society.

television shows

According to Massey, an effective system of social stratification requires the following basics elements, EXCEPT:

the interactions between businesses and community leaders

Wendell argues that _________ as a factor in the social construction of disability that is actually taken for granted by non-disabled people, but marginalizes or threatens to marginalize disable people:

the pace of life

A person's phenotype is her or his physical appearance and constitution, including skeletal structure, height, hair texture, eye color, and skin tone, according to Desmond and Emirbayer

true

According to Crawley, Foley, and Shehan, social constructionism suggests that the differences between women and men that we identify as significant (i.e., femininity and masculinity) are products of the social world, not nature.

true

According to Glenn, race and gender cannot be viewed as separate ideas from a historical context, but rather, need to be viewed as linked.

true

According to Lachmann, corporate, inheritance, and gift taxes have declined as a share of revenue from 25% in 1967 to 13% in 2008.

true

According to Rubin, the large structural forces that have changed the face of homelessness are no mystery: an increasingly stratified society with little opportunity for the unschooled and unskilled, a minimum wage that doesn't approach a living wage, unemployment and underemployment, cuts in public assistance, and urban rents that continue to rise well beyond what an unskilled worker can afford.

true

According to Samuels, the analogy of being homosexual as being like having a disability is limiting and suggests new theories need to be developed.

true

According to Weber, Oppression exists when one group has historically gained power and control over valued assets of a society (e.g., wealth, information, and political power) by exploiting the labor and lives of other groups and then by using those assets to secure its position of power into the future.

true

According to Zuberi, most of the people enslaved throughout the Mediterranean before the seizure of Constantinople in 1453 were of European origin.

true

Acker posits that capitalism, by its nature, is gendered and racialized.

true

Acker provides an examination of how social organizations create and maintain hierarchies of power.

true

Alexander argues that mass incarceration is a type of a racial caste system.

true

Bertrand and Mullainathan conduct an experiment to test whether or not potential employers discriminate based on the perceived ethnicity of names on fictitious job applications.

true

Blitstein looks specifically at how Geronimus' research challenged the 1970s' assumption that teen pregnancy only had negative health outcomes, while in fact, teen pregnancy had different outcomes for girls based on their race and socioeconomic status.

true

Buck posits that in order to eliminate racism, race and whiteness must first be eliminated.

true

Hess argues that we should recognize the negative impacts of cyberstalking and sexual harassment to women on the Internet..

true

Lerner argues that classes were formed and maintained by gendered marriage arrangements and inheritance practices.

true

Rubin argues that our government has failed to create effective social policies to help disadvantaged populations, such as the mentally ill and the homeless.

true

The availability and distribution of basic resources such as water, food, clothing, and shelter have major effects on disability, since much disabling physical damage results directly from malnutrition and indirectly from diseases that attack and do more lasting harm to the malnourished and those weakened by exposure, according to Wendell.

true

Wailoo argues pervasively that the health crisis after Hurricane Katrina did not begin with the hurricane, but has deeper social roots in the high rates of kidney failure and other health problems among New Orleans poor and minority populations.

true

_____ According to Polgar, Jewish public health in the United States is also a recent concern.

true

According to Kendall, watching how other individuals live rather than experiencing life for ourselves is called:

vicarious living

Polgar describes the Holocaust of 1933-45 as a culmination of anti-Judaism for modern societies that witnessed the following human wrongs EXCEPT:

war

The term used by Hanson, Kivisto, and Hartung, to refer to a household's assets minus debts, is:

wealth

According to Acker, who benefits the most from industrial capitalism?

white males

According to Katz, our modern concepts of heterosexuality and homosexuality first began to develop when?

~1860