SOC EXAM 4
If an urban neighborhood were to suddenly develop an assortment of upscale restaurants, coffee shops, hip boutiques, and art galleries, then the neighborhood is:
becoming gentrified
In the United States today, very few people marry outside of their own socioeconomic class, suggesting that there is a high degree of:
endogamy
Organizations designed to raise money to support the interests of a particular group are called:
political action committees
How does the U.S. Census Bureau define "family"?
two or more individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption who share a household
What group was most likely to move away from the urban core to the suburbs?
whites
Who is more likely to return home after a full day of paid labor and then have to put in a "second shift" at home taking care of domestic work?
women
Candidates from both major political parties in the United States spend a lot of money (millions) to try to win an election.
True
What did C. Wright Mills mean by the term "power elite"?
a small group of people who occupy key positions in political, economic, and military institutions
The study of the size, composition, distribution and change in a human population is called:
demography
What is it called when a government bars an individual, either temporarily or permanently, from voting?
disenfranchisement
Given that fertility rates in the United States have dropped below the level needed to maintain the population level, why is the population here growing?
immigration
The shift of large segments of the population away from the urban core and toward the edges of cities is called:
suburbanization
According to C. Wright Mills, who rules America?
the power elite
Arlie Hochschild's study of two-income families found that women were much more likely to do the majority of the unpaid labor inside the home even after a full day's work outside the home. What term is used to describe this extra labor?
the second shift
According to conflict theory, how does the nuclear family facilitate exploitation?
through a sexual division of labor within the home