sociology 3

When, during World War II, Japanese American families were given notice of their mandatory relocation to internment camps, how much time were they given to dispose of their lands and other property?

1 week

As of 2018, health care makes up ________ percent of the U.S. economy.

18

Roughly what percentage of Americans get married at least once in their lifetime?

90

Which of the following aligns with the arguments of black feminism?

Black women face unique oppressions that white women, and even black men, do not.

In the United States, how did the rise of employer-provided health insurance come about?

During a time when raises were limited by law, it was an alternate way to compensate employees.

In the modern United States, people see physical markers such as hair type or skin color and think of race. In ancient Egypt, physical markers were seen as linked to

Geography

How does the "one-sex" model of the ancient Greeks differ from the two-sex model of modern Western societies?

In the one-sex model, the female body was regarded as an "inversion" of the male body.

What is the origin of the word "homeopathic"?

It comes from Greek words meaning "same" and "poison."

Which of the following was the result of medical licensing that began in the mid-1800s?

It gave physicians more economic clout.

In much of the Western world, choice of a marriage partner is influenced by age, education, class, race, and religion. Which of the following explains this tendency?

Marrying someone significantly different in age, race, social class, and religion is often met with disapproval from others.

What has research found regarding the typical distribution of work hours before and after a heterosexual couple has children?

Men do fewer hours of work in the household after having children than they did before, and their total work hours are lower than those of women.

Physician prestige has been on the decline since the 1980s. Which of the following might be a reason?

More people in the medical community are being allowed to prescribe.

Which of the following is one of the reasons why sociologists view gender as a social construction rather than a biological given?

Our understandings of, categorizations of, and behaviors toward what it means to be a man or woman have changed throughout history.

Which term refers to the belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits?

Racism

According to intersex activists, why do parents and surgeons push to assign a sex to a genitally ambiguous child?

Social discomfort and fear of difference.

What does it mean to say that illness is socially constructed?

The identification of a condition or activity as symptomatic of an illness varies by culture.

What does Patricia Hill Collins mean by a "matrix of domination"?

The nature and extent of a person's oppression is a function of multiple factors, not just one.

Which of the following is true about individuals who divorce their first spouse?

They are likely to remarry, but the second marriage has about the same or an even higher rate of failure.

What do we know about couples who live together before marriage?

They are more likely to divorce because couples who cohabit before marriage are typically more accepting of divorce.

Tamara is a medical doctor who is driving to the park. On her way, she passes the scene of an accident. In U.S. society, the expectation is that Tamara has

a moral obligation to stop and try to help.

Dr. Raman is a family practice physician with a degree from Sunshine University. He makes potions of sunshine and water in his kitchen and sells them as "Health, Guaranteed!" All the other medical doctors in town say Dr. Raman is no good, but he doesn't care. All he cares about is the happiness of his patients (and his sales). Because he serves clients at the expense of the esteem of his professional peers, Dr. Raman is known to sociologists as

a quack

According to surveys, which quality in doctors do patients rate as MOST important?

bedside manner

James is 6 feet tall. Leroy is 5 feet 2 inches tall. There are surely many individual differences between James and Leroy, but sociological research predicts that based on height alone, James is likely to have

better health.

The one-drop rule asserts that just "one drop" of black blood makes a person

black

During the mid-twentieth century in the United States, many blacks moved north to escape Jim Crow laws in the rural South. This resulted in

competition for housing and employment in the North, resulting in violent clashes between whites and blacks.

Aisha has fallen in love with Richard, a man who is outside her ethnic group. Her family shames her and convinces her to marry Adam, a man from their background. When doing so, Aisha is following her ethnic group's rule of

endogamy

Which of the following terms hinges on the belief that social and psychological traits can be traced through bloodlines and selectively bred out of (or into) populations?

eugenics

As immigrants to the United States from India, Riya's family insists that she marries someone of a similar ethnic background and social class. Although her family disapproves, Riya marries a Hawaiian man whom she has fallen in love with. Her choice to marry this man reflects her preference forexogamy.

exogamy.

Although marriages that are interracial and interethnic have become more common in the United States, most U.S. marriages are still racially and ethnically endogamous. Which of the following is a potential factor that discourages exogamy?

facing ostracism from within one's community

"Gender structures social relationships between people unequally." This is a statement that exemplifies the ________ perspective on gender.

feminist

America's first naturalization law, passed in 1790, granted citizenship to

free white people

The concept of race

has changed over time

Morbidity means ________; mortality means ________.

illness; death

Even though social institutions often treat social identities such as gender, race, and class as separate categories, these social identities are experienced simultaneously. This idea is called

intersectionality

Although sexual harassment in the workplace can vary from jokes to sexual barter to sexual assault, a key reason sexual harassment contributes to gender inequality is tha

it is intended to make people feel uncomfortable and unwelcome.

Although women now outnumber men in terms of college enrollment, men still dominate which fields?

math and physics

By looking at anthropological findings in tribal societies, sociologists can see fluidity in gender, which helps us see that the boundaries within our own system of gender

may not be stable.

Baby names connect to gender, and names flow from male to androgynous to female but never in reverse. The reason for this is that

men have more power, so masculinity is more likely to be emulated than femininity.

Daniel has had three wives, but this is legal in the United States since he was married to only one woman at a time. This legality reflects our marital norm known as

monogamy.

The Johnson family consists of a mother, a father, and their biological children. Sociologists classify this as a(n) ________ family.

nuclear

Men and women tend to work in different types of jobs, such that occupational fields tend to be either male-dominated or female-dominated. This pattern is called

occupational segregation.

DNA testing is generally seen as a benefit to justice, because it allows for more precise identification of criminals. Sociologists see that forensic genetics also has a tendency to reproduce existing inequalities, because

people who have committed prior crimes, and those with relatives who have committed crimes, are more likely to be caught.

In some areas of Tibet, Nepal, and India, women can have multiple husbands at once. This practice is known as

polyandry.

In 1942, 120,000 Japanese Americans were sent by federal order to internment camps. Afterward, all Asian Americans (regardless of their country of origin and/or U.S. citizenship status) went from being a relatively unnoticed group to being singled out for discrimination. This is known as

racialization.

While the notion of sex has typically referred to biological characteristics, the concept of gender refers to ________ characteristics.

social

Identify which of the following is a belief that characterizes racism.

that humans are divided into distinct bloodlines and/or physical types

In families where both spouses work for wages, the second shift can best be described as

the domestic tasks that fall disproportionately on women in addition to their paid work.

It is typically harder to denaturalize the dominant category because

the dominant category is seen as the norm and is often invisible.

If a young adult in the United States is told that race is a social construct, she may struggle with this concept because of the organization of social life that makes the ideas of distinct racial groups seem natural or obvious. This means that social practices make race socially real and may even create the idea that race is biologically or objectively real. Of the possibilities below, which one best demonstrates a social practice that makes race socially real?

the large separation of marriage and reproductive communities by race

Women's labor force participation has increased over time and

the majority of women are now in the labor force.

The German Nazis identified Jews as a "race," and race was believed to be biological. Nonetheless, the Jews were forced to wear a yellow Star of David because:

there was no reliable physical indicator of this supposed "race."

During European colonialism, ethnocentrism classified whites as normal, and nonwhites as abnormal and inferior, to help justify

unequal treatment

If we consider the relative income levels of men and women on average, we can see that

women make about 80 percent of what men make