Sociology Exam 3: 10, 11, 12, 14

symbolic interactionism on family

"personal family", how relations are created and maintained not structured

how much do women earn on the dollar

.77

domestic abuse for women

1/4 suffer from physical violence

What percentage of American workers telecommute at least part-time?

10%

what percentage of board seats are women?

12%

number of American workers who belonged to a union in 2014.

14.6 million

Type the year in which the Industrial Revolution began in England with the invention of the steam engine

1769

Type the year in which the first state legally required all children age sixteen and younger to attend school.

1852

Nation at Risk

1983 the American educational system was in a crisis, decreasing test scores, and an achievement gap

What percentage of all students enrolled in college in the United States are enrolled in two-year community colleges?

27%

What percentage of all college students took at least one class online in 2012?

32

What percentage of American workers belonged to a union in 1955?

35

As recently as 2001, the Department of Labor estimates that there were roughly how many sweatshops in major U.S. cities?

7,000

Georgia and graduation rates

79% of students in GA are graduating high school

race and high school graduation

88% of white kids are graduating high school and 75% of black kids are graduating high school

Iowa and graduation rates

91% of students in Iowa are graduating high school

Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities

Conflict Theory

What does "CSR" stand for?

Corporate social responsibility

Justin signs up online to take a course from a third party that allows him to log in and watch a lecture free of charge whenever he wants. His university will allow him to earn credit for the course if he pays the third party a fee.

MOOCs

During the past few years, which brands and companies have been associated with foreign sweatshop labor?

Nike Forever 21 H&M the Gap Kohl's Walmart J. C. Penney Urban Outfitters

conflict theory on work

Outsourcing exploits poor and developing nations and laid-off local workers, all while enriching corporations.

structural functionalism

Outsourcing is necessary to keep both national and global economies stable in the current market.

Mary commutes to college in Atlanta from a nearby neighborhood. She ends up marrying Joe, who lives two doors down from her and attends the same school. What is this an example of?

Propinquity

Which of the following statements about modern service work are true?

Service workers face potential clashes with both clients and supervisors. Service work is the dominant form of employment in the postindustrial economy. In service work, situations arise when the worker's concerns, standards, and expectations conflict with those of clients.

work: symbolic interactionism

Workers whose jobs are outsourced may come to see themselves as worthless and expendable because it seems that others see them that way, too.

TANF

a cash benefit program that is often referred to as welfare

union

a collective resistance, an association of workers who bargain for better wages and better working conditions

food desert

a community in which the residents have little access to fresh food

polygny

a man has multiple wives

Which of the following are two of the most in-demand programs of study in community colleges?

administration of justice and health sciences (many community colleges teach people to give back)

examples of knowledge work

advertising, engineering, web design

preventative medicine

aims to avoid the disease, lifestyle choices

According to Karl Marx, what is the condition in which people are dominated by forces of their own creation?

alienation

school vouchers

allow parents to send their kids to private school of their choice if their public school is inadequate, little evidence that this helps education they pressure public schools to get better or they'll keep losing money, threaten separation of church and state if parents send kids to religious schools,

Donald Roy studied a factory where workers called a short break in the day ___________ time.

banana time

rescission

canceling coverage after a person gets sick

pandemic

cases of the disease also cover a large geographical region

A group of teachers and parents petition the state government to give them the autonomy to open a new elementary school that focuses on bilingual education and the arts. The new school will be this type of school.

charter schools

exogamy

choosing mates from outside the group

endogamy

choosing mates from within the group

"race to the bottom"

companies competing and they make the conditions of the workers horrible, sweatshop labor

CAM

complementary and alternative medicine

Some for-profit higher education institutions receive a large proportion of tuition payments via government grants and loans. These institutions may often attempt to enroll as many students as possible, regardless of their actual preparation for college. Thus, many suggest that for-profit higher education institutions are benefiting from a version of what?

corporate welfare

Place the following in order from highest to lowest higher education costs.

debt from for-profit schools, 1 year tuition at a private nonprofit, 1 year of tuition at a for-profit, 1 year tuition at a 4 year public nonprofit, 1 year tuition at a 2 year public nonprofit

structural functionalism on family

decreased suicide, family reproduces and socializes future workers, "pattern maintenance",

chronic diseases

develop over a longer time, progress and become fatal

service work

done by anyone who provides a service to businesses

knowledge work

done by anyone who works primarily with information or who develops and uses knowledge in the workforce

examples of service work

education, banking, entertainment

expressive tasks

emotional or relational goals, playing a board game with the kids

The rate of divorce in the United States began rising in the 1960s and is still climbing today. true or false

false

true or false: The majority of K-12 students in the United States attend private school.

false. 9% attend private school

conflict theory on family

family socializes children to function in a capitalist economy, nuclear family is oppressive and gender based, family is competitive

agribusiness

farmers using technology to farm and they are stratified now

Education websites like Khan Academy and schools like Clintondale High School are examples of what recent education phenomenon?

flipped classroom

palliative care

focuses on symptom and pain relief

SNAP

formerly known as the Food Stamp Program

the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

funded private companies to keep them away from socialism

early college high school

get high school diploma and college credit, funded by bill gates and other rich people

children of divorced parents are not as likely to get divorced anymore because

growing acceptance of divorce, age of marriage has changed, they're more likely to cohabitate

home schooling

has really high academic achievement, but no socialization

Which of the following is an example of the "sandwich generation" effect?

having to take care of elderly parents and children at the same time

An elementary school student notices that exhibiting good behavior and following the instructions of the teacher can go a long way to earning him decent grades in school. This example highlights what sociological term about the education system?

hidden curriculum

a structural functionalist study

inequality in schools prepares for the inequality in the workforce, class background has a higher influence and better schools won't be able to fix this

relation between time and interracial couples

it is decreasing to about 9.5% in 2010

anti-miscegenation

laws in several states that prohibited mixing of racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, or sexual interaction

what court case outlawed anti-miscegenation?

loving v, virginia

The Hmong people are an ethnic group native to the mountainous regions of mainland Southeast Asia. What is the traditional Hmong understanding of epileptic seizures?

malevolent attempts by evil spirits

remarriage in relation to gender

men remarry more than women

climate change impacts

more people in cities, affects animal populations, more vector organisms

Under modern capitalism, a firm experiencing a strike can keep labor costs low by doing which of the following?

move workers to a country where they cannot strike

polyamory

multiple person relationship

Beyond the five forms of domestic abuse, _________ can be another form of elder abuse.

neglect

NCLB

no child left behind, 2002, helped high income students more than low income students,

epidemic

occurs when a high number of a particular disease occur during a time period

MOOCS

online courses, cheap and readily available

relation between income and bachelors degrees

only 10% of low income families have bachelors degrees while half of high income families have bachelors degrees

deprivation amplification

our hereditary disease risks are amplified by social factors

The family is responsible for the reproduction of society as it produces and socializes children who will in turn become future workers and produce and socialize more new members of society. What did Talcott Parsons refer to this as?

pattern maintenance

Place the following in order from highest to lowest college graduation rates

private non profit, public non profit, for profit schools

Jamal's parents obtain a school voucher from the government because his neighborhood school has been consistently labeled "failing" by the state government. Jamal will now be able to attend this type of school.

private school

charter schools

privately led public schools, make changes faster than public schools, variation in their success and students performance (RAND), 40 states and capital have charter schools

Laura Scott describes U.S. society as ________, suggesting that U.S. cultural values support childbearing and child rearing as the normative and preferred practice.

pronatalist

Which of the following statements about modern agricultural work are true?

pushed small farms away, dependent on technology, interdependent system

a symbolic interactionist study

pygmalion in the classroom, researches falsely told the teachers what students got higher IQs and that affected how they taught and treated the kids

feminist and queer theory on family

question male dominance, resist heterosexuality, masculinity and heterosexuality should not be the requirement for power

What did Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments, do that presents an example of "corporate conscience"?

raised employees salary

propinquity

refers to geographical distance, the internet weakens propinquity but strengthens homogamy

shallow integration

refers to the flow of goods and services a national company arranges with a foreign company to trade exclusively

deep integration

refers to the global flow of goods since theres branches all over the world

a conflict study

savage inequalities, poor areas had poor schools had significantly less personnel which creates inequality

Randall Collins's The Credential Society

structural functionalist

unschooling

student centered learning

acute diseases

sudden onset, curable usually

examples of resistance strategies

surfing the web, sabotaging the assembly line, personalizing the workplace

France Winddance Twine's 2011 book focused on outsourcing what task to women in India?

surrogacy

"Gold farming" shows

sweatshop

Robert Rosenthal and Leonore Jacobson's Pygmalion in the Classroom

symbolic interactionism

instrumental task

tangible goal, washing the dishes

the early education system

the church was the main educator, began in Greece, prominent during enlightenment

hidden curriculum

the indirect lessons students learn that are important to their socialization. they teach them routine, regulations, and rules.

professional socialization

the process by which new members learn and internalize the norms of their group

medicalization

the process by which some behaviors that were once seen as personal problems are redefined as medical issues

tracking

the process of placing students on a gifted track or remedial track, and it cuts students out of certain colleges, majors, and careers

epidemiology

the study of disease patterns

why are people marrying less

they are cohabiting, marriage is no longer a prerequisite for childbearing, growing economic independence

Which of the following examples highlights the autonomy experienced by knowledge workers such as those who work at Google?

they take breaks when they choose

Barbara Ehrenreich explored some of the issues of power and service work in her book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001). As research for the book, Ehrenreich took minimum-wage service jobs as a waitress, a hotel maid, and a Walmart employee. What was her main finding?

they're exploited

contingent workforce

those who work in temporary positions or independent contractors

transnational corporations

transcend borders to manufacture all over the world, Coca Cola

outsourcing

transferring labor to other countries

curative or crisis medicine

treats the disease once it become apparent

domestic abuse for LGBTQ

twice as much relationship abuse

Which of the following is the U.S. Census Bureau's definition of family?

two or more individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption living in the same household

students in this type of school choose what they want to learn and often have minimal direction.

unschooling

Common core

used to help the stagnant education in the united states, critics said it assumed one size fit all

the Affordable Care Act of 2010

ushered in more federally mandated health care coverage for millions of Americans

resistance strategies

ways workers express discontent with their job and rebel

homogamy

we tend to choose mates who are similar to us in class, race, ethnicity, etc.

the modern switch for labor unions

went from fighting for better wages to now keeping their jobs in the country

Which of the following statements about educational inequality in the United States are true?

women are more likely than men to have a bachelor's degree or higher, high-income families are 5 times as likely to get a bachelor's degree as low-income families, Lifetime earnings for someone with an advanced degree are almost 50 percent higher than for someone with only a high school diploma, high school degree have an unemployment rate about 70 percent higher than the unemployment rate for individuals with a bachelor's degree

relation between gender and bachelor degrees or higher

women are more likely to have a bachelors degree or higher, yet still they make considerably less money than men

gender and Fortune 500 CEO's

women are only 4% of CEOs

death of distance

work on a computer can be done anywhere

problems of industrial work

workers are alienated from what they produce and their creativity, they are forced to be rivals

telecommuting

working from home while staying connected to the office through communication technologies

Which of the following is an example of fictive kin?

your dad friend who you consider an uncle