Sociology 101 Quiz 10, 11 and 12

How has the age of the average first-time bride and groom in the United States changed since 1890?

Bothe the bride and groom are older than at any other time

Cohabitation trends include all of the following EXCEPT

Couple who cohabit before marriage are less likely to get divorced than those who don't

According to the functionalist perspective, profit is immoral because it represents excess value extracted from workers. T/F

False

Adult children are now leaving home at an earlier age and are less likely to return home after they leave. T/F

False

An example of C. Wright Mills' power elite is when politicians design policies to please many groups so that no one group rules. T/F

False

Because they lack both power and permanence, charismatic leaders are seldom a threat to rational-legal or traditional authority. T/F

False

Being transgender is another name for being intersex T/F

False

Sociologically, "gender" and "sex" are interchangeable terms that have virtually the same meaning. T/F

False

The "global village" Daniel Bell refers to is a world where separate countries cease to exist. T/F

False

The United Kingdom (Great Britain) is currently an example of an absolute monarchy. T/F

False

The chances of divorce increase as the level of one's education and income increases. T/F

False

The ideal communist economic system will occur when capitalist and socialist economic systems adopt features of one another to create a hybrid economic system in all societies. T/F

False

The rate of divorce among remarried couples is much lower than the rate of divorce among first time marriages. T/F

False

Which of the following statements best describes how most sociologists believe behavioral gender differences develop between men and women?

Gender differences are based on social factors

Of the following countries, in which one do the citizens have the longest life expectancy?

Japan

Which of the following is true about terrorism?

The French Resistance during WWII was not seen as a terrorist group by the German occupation.

How do theorists view the relationship between industrialization and the elderly in the United States?

The social value of the elderly decreased with industrialization.

For a government to be stable, what quality must exist?

The source of the power must be perceived as legitimate.

What did Joan of Arc, Adolph Hitler, and Jesus Christ all have in common?

They were all charismatic leaders.

A political gender gap is developing in presidential polls with women being likely to support the Democratic candidate and men supporting the Republican candidate. T/F

True

Changing trends in the world's largest corporations indicate that the U.S. is losing economic power while China is gaining dominance. T/F

True

Children from single-parent families are more likely to participate in deviant behaviors. T/F

True

Feminism is a) the belief in the social, political, and economic equality of women, and b) the movement organized around this belief. T/F

True

No matter what social class people belong to, they are still stratified by gender. T/F

True

Online dating has become so popular that one fifth of heterosexual couples and three-fifths of homosexual couples now meet online. T/F

True

Researchers have found that the main struggles of same-sex couples are the same problems that heterosexual couples face. T/F

True

The glass ceiling prevents women from advancing to top executive positions, while it lets men pass through. T/F

True

The more a country industrializes, the more likely its people will reach older ages. T/F

True

The sandwich generation refers to parents who find themselves sandwiched between caring for two groups, their own dependent children and their aging parents. T/F

True

The tendency of people with similar characteristics to marry one another is called homogamy. T/F

True

People who were born at roughly the same time and who pass through the life course together are referred to as a/an

age cohort

Prejudice, discrimination, and hostility directed against people because of their age is called ________.

ageism

What is a system of government in which decision-making is vested in a small group of people?

an oligarchy

In Elman Service's categories of types of government, the simplest form is a

band

Jankowiak and Fisher found that romantic love

exists in almost every culture they studied.

The correct term for the practice of marrying outside one's group is:

exogamy.

The majority of students graduating with a degree in library science are women. Research has shown that this sex typing of majors is primarily due to ________.

gender socialization

Husbands remain primarily responsible for earning the income and wives are primarily responsible for the house and children. This is an arrangement sociologists call ________.

he gendered division of labor

Honor killings, selective abortion by gender, infanticide and rape have resulted in

millions of girls and women missing worldwide. ongoing control and subjugation of women a U.N. estimate that 1 in 3 women worldwide are victims of violence

According to the sociologist Daniel Bell, all of the following are characteristics of postindustrial economies, EXCEPT:

only wealthy people can afford the wide variety of goods available.

The plow was a key development for the beginning of the agricultural revolution, just as the ________ was a key development for the beginning of the industrial revolution.

steam engine

What is the key to determining if someone will vote?

the degree to which they believe they have a stake in the political system

For which wave of the women's movement was one focus on the problems of women in the Least Industrialized Nations?

the third and fourth waves of the 1990s to present

The idea of everyone having the same basic rights by virtue of being born in a country or becoming a naturalized citizen is referred to as:

universal citizenship

Women in the U.S. are underrepresented in political office because:

women are still underrepresented in law and business, careers from which most politicians come. most women find the irregular hours required for running for election incompatible with their role as a mother. males have been reluctant to incorporate women into centers of decision making.