SOC 100 Final

Why aren't antibiotics as successful in treating illnesses as they were several years ago?

Bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics.

After mental illness became "medicalized," what was one major change that occurred?

Medication replaced counseling.

Which nation has one of the highest poverty rates in the advanced world?

United States

What is one reason men have higher mortality rates than women?

Women are more likely to seek medical care.

A family that cannot afford the basic necessities of life, or purchase enough to physically sustain its members, lives in:

absolute poverty.

Gautreaux v. Chicago Housing Authority was a class action suit that alleged public housing was:

de facto government segregation.

When a society has rules that limit marital choices to people within their own social group, such as within their social class or religion, this is known as:

endogamy.

Grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins who live together in a multigenerational household are considered a(n) ____________ family.

extended

What term refers to the invisible barriers women face when they enter more prestigious corporate worlds?

glass ceiling

The concept of race:

has changed over time.

Although race has no deterministic, biological basis, it still:

has important social influence.

The main problem of fee-for-service is that doctors have an incentive to:

have patients return for unnecessary visits.

Bob and Sue paint their baby's room pink as soon as they find out they are having a girl. They are beginning to provide the baby with what?

her gendered identity

When the official poverty line was first set, food made up the largest percentage of household budgets. In today's society, what now makes up the largest percentage?

housing

Morbidity means ____________; mortality means ____________.

illness; death

Alfred Kinsey's 1948 study, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, is important because:

it viewed sexuality as falling on a continuum, thus challenging the psychiatric claim of homosexuality as abnormal.

A family consisting of a mother, a father, and their biological children is known as a(n) ____________ family.

nuclear

Some societies allow a person to have several spouses at the same time in an arrangement known as:

polygamy.

In 1942, 120,000 Japanese Americans were sent by federal order to internment camps. Afterward, all Asian Americans (regardless of their country of origin and/or U.S. citizenship status) went from being a relatively unnoticed group to being singled out for discrimination. This is known as:

racialization.

The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson upheld:

segregation.

The Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education struck down what doctrine?

separate but equal

What term best describes a behavior or attitude where a person's sex is the basis for prejudicial discrimination and where sex may matter more than a person's performance or merit?

sexism

While the notion of sex refers to biological characteristics, the concept of gender refers to ____________ characteristics.

social

Mollie Orshansky used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recommendations for the minimum amount of healthy food, estimated the cost for a variety of family types, and multiplied this figure by a factor of three to measure:

the official poverty line.

The Ozzie and Harriet Nelson type of family was in its prime during which time period?

the post-World War II economic boom