Soc Exam 2
In 2010,( ) of graduating high school students met ACT's benchmarks in math, reading,science, and English
24%
What is a bureaucracy?
A formal organization that efficiently coordinates people towards tasks
What do income, education, and occupation measure?
A person's socioeconomic status
Individuals who who the means of production in a capitalist society are called?
Capitalists
What is a system stratification in which class is ascribed at birth and cannot be changed called?
Caste System
Which of the following is defined as the process by which an innovation is spread throughout a social system?
Diffusion
What is hiring and promotion usually based on in bureaucracies?
Formal Qualifications
What do we call the process by which procedures become established in a formal organization?
Formalization
Which of the following occurs in formal organizations?
Goals are Cleary stated
According to structural functional theory, which of the following is NOT a latent function of education?
Learning to be a good worker
Which of the follow characteristics LEAST applies to a bureaucracy?
Personal Attention
Which of the following is NOT correct about open systems?
Statuses are determined at birth
What does the hidden curriculum in schools do?
Teach the values and norms that are needed to maintain the status quo.
According to conflict theorists, who uses the educational system to maintain their position?
The elite
What does credentialism mean?
The practice of requiring degrees for jobs regardless of skills
According to Weber, what is the basis of social life?
Wealth and life chances that allow the possibility to acquire wealth.
What is a split labor market
When the market provides upward mobility for some jobs but not for others.
Which of the following theories argues that core nations dominate the economies of peripheral nations?
World-systems theory
When first studying the factory worker, scientific management theorists assumed which of the following?
a "stupid" worker is most efficient
Regarding change, what do structural functionalists argue?
change disrupts systemic equilibrium
Why do conflict theorists suggest that social stratification occurs?
elites monopolize scare resources
In a ( ) system, all people are theoretically free to buy, sell, and make a profit.
free-market
( ), a way to increase profits, is when corporations take over similar businesses to reduce competition
horizontal expansion
( ) is the process by which industrial countries emerge as urban societies with lower birth rates and better healthcare
modernization
Regarding change, cyclical change theorists argue which of the following?
the decay of society is inevitable
According to structural functionalists, why do capitalist economies succeed?
they meet the basic needs of members of society
What do conflict theorists believe will happen to corporations without regulation?
they will ruthlessly exploit workers
