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