Soc

What are some denominations of the Christian Protestant church?

Methodist and Seventh-day Adventist

Which of the following is true of intimate partner violence (IPV)?

Nearly half of instances of IPV involve drugs or alcohol.

According to the World Health Organization, what was the most frequent cause of death for children under five in low- income countries?

Pneumonia and diarrheal diseases

Which of the following do the functionalist and conflict perspectives share?

Position that religion relates to social control, enforcing social norms

Who determines which illnesses are stigmatized?

Society

What term describes the separation of students based on merit?

Sorting

Which program is an example of socialized medicine?

The United States' Veterans Health Administration

What group created the Millennium Development Goals?

The World Health Organization

Chronic fatigue syndrome is an example of _______________.

a contested illness

According to the study cited by the U.S. Census Bureau, children who live with married parents grow up with more advantages than children who live with:

a single parent

Maya is a twelve-year-old girl living in Thailand. She is homeless, and often does not know where she will sleep or when she will eat. We might say that Maya lives in _________ poverty.

absolute

The 1972 case Mills v. Board of Education of the District of Columbia set a precedent for _________

access to education

Research suggests that people generally feel that their current family is _______ than the family they grew up with.

at least as close

What are the most commonly diagnosed mental disorders in the United States?

Anxiety disorders

Which of the following statements is not true?

Blacks have lower cancer rates than whites.

What do Christianity and Islam have in common?

Both believe in a single supreme god. Both share many of the same stories in their central religious texts. Both believe in an afterlife. * All of the above

Which socialist perspective most emphasizes the ways in which religion helps to maintain social inequalities within a society?

Conflict theory

Which theory of education focuses on the ways in which education maintains the status quo?

Conflict theory

France might be classified as which kind of nation?

Core

Which perspective most emphasizes the ways in which religion helps keep the social system running smoothly?

Functional perspective

In the past, the United States manufactured clothes. Many clothing corporations have shut down their U.S. factories and relocated to China. This is an example of:

capital flight

Learning from classmates that most students buy lunch on Fridays is an example of ________.

cultural transmission

Core nations are also known as __________________

high-income nations

Sociologists tend to define family in terms of

how a given society sanctions the relationships of people who are connected through blood, marriage, or adoption

Megachurches tend to have:

large arenas where services are held

The process by which aspects of life that were considered bad or deviant are redefined as sickness and needing medical attention to remedy is called:

medicalization

Children of divorced parents are _______ to divorce in their own marriage than children of parents who stayed married.

more likely

Mike, a college student, rents a studio apartment. He cannot afford a television and lives on cheap groceries like dried beans and ramen noodles. Since he does not have a regular job, he does not own a car. Mike is living in:

relative poverty

Rewarding students for meeting deadlines and respecting authority figures is an example of ________.

transmission of moral education

High Income Countries

1. first to develop during industrial revolution 2. enjoy 80% of world's income 3. more income means more control of world's financial markets

In what part of the world have Confucianism and Taoism been primarily practiced?

China

Which of the following is not a manifest function of education?

Courtship

Which of the following is a criticism of the family life cycle model?

It is too narrowly focused on a sequence of stages.

Which public healthcare system offers insurance primarily to people over sixty-five years old?

Medicare

Which type of child abuse is most prevalent in the United States?

Neglect

In what ways does religion serve the role of a social institution?

Religions have a complex and integrated set of norms. Religious practices and beliefs are related to societal values. Religions often meet several basic needs. * All of the above

What does the individual mandate provision of the 2010 U.S. healthcare reform do?

Requires everyone to have insurance or pay a penalty

What are the major factors that affect education systems throughout the world?

Resources and money

Some controversial groups that may be mislabeled as cults include:

Scientology and the Hare Krishna

Which of the main theoretical perspectives would approach religion from the micro-level, studying how religion impacts an individual's sense of support and well-being?

Symbolic interactionism

Which theory of education focuses on the labels acquired through the educational process?

Symbolic interactionism

Which of the following is not part of the rights and responsibilities of a sick person under the functionalist perspective?

The sick person can take as long as she wants to get better.

What is social epidemiology?

The study of the causes and distribution of diseases

What do nations that are top-ranked in science and math have in common?

They recruit top teachers.

Conflict theorists see IQ tests as being biased. Why?

They reward affluent students with questions that assume knowledge associated with upper-class culture.

What term describes the assignment of students to specific education programs and classes on the basis of test scores, previous grades, or perceived ability?

Tracking

Sidewalk ramps and Braille signs are examples of _______________.

accommodations required by the Americans with Disabilities Act forms of accessibility for people with disabilities *both

The Protestant work ethic was viewed in terms of its relationship to:

capitalism

Slavery in the pre-Civil War U.S. South most closely resembled

chattel slavery

The class, race, and gender inequalities in our healthcare system support the _____________ perspective.

conflict

A sociologist who focuses on the way that multinational corporations headquartered in core nations exploit the local workers in their peripheral nation factories is using a _________ perspective to understand the global economy.

conflict theory

Dependency theorists explain global inequality and global stratification by focusing on the way that:

core nations exploit peripheral nations

In general, children in ______ households benefit from divorce.

high-conflict

The median age of first marriage has ______ in the last fifty years.

increased for both men and women

A cultural universal is something that:

is found in all cultures

One flaw in modernization theory is the unwillingness to recognize _________.

its inherent ethnocentric bias

Social scientists refer to the use of a church to combat social injustice in the political realm as:

liberation theology

If a sociologist says that nations evolve toward more advanced technology and more complex industry as their citizens learn cultural values that celebrate hard work and success, she is using _______ theory to study the global economy.

modernization theory

Many deaths in high-income nations are linked to __________________

obesity

A sect:

often believes it must split from the larger group to return to important fundamentals

A child who associates his line of descent with his father's side only is part of a _____ society.

patrilineal

Public schools must guarantee that ___________.

per-student spending is equitable

Conflict theorists see sorting as a way to ________.

perpetuate divisions of socioeconomic status

A woman being married to two men would be an example of:

polyandry

Plessy v. Ferguson set the precedent that _____________.

racial segregation in schools was allowed

Informal education _________________.

refers to the learning of cultural norms

Many stories in the sacred text of Judaism are:

shared by Christianity and Islam

Couples who cohabitate before marriage are ______ couples who did not cohabitate before marriage to be married at least ten years.

slightly less likely than

Because she plans on achieving success in marketing, Tammie is taking courses on managing social media. This is an example of ________.

social placement

Allowing a student to move to the next grade regardless of whether or not they have met the requirements for that grade is called ____________.

social promotion

Great Britain's healthcare system is an example of ______________

socialized medicine

Key predictors for student success include ____________.

socioeconomic status and family background

Current divorce rates are:

steadily declining

The high unemployment rate among the disabled may be a result of ____________.

stigmatization

Faith has a full-time job and two children. She has enough money for the basics and can pay her rent each month, but she feels that, with her education and experience, her income should be enough for her family to live much better than they do. Faith is experiencing:

subjective poverty

One flaw in dependency theory is the unwillingness to recognize _______.

that previously low-income nations such as China have successfully developed their economies and can no longer be classified as dependent on core nations

The Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) is an example of ________________

the social construction of health

The majority of U.S. children live in:

two-parent households

A sociologist working from a symbolic interaction perspective would:

want to interview women working in factories to understand how they manage the expectations of their supervisors, make ends meet, and support their households on a day-to-day basis

Same-sex couple households account for _____ percent of U.S. households.

1

The removal of homosexuality from the DSM is an example of ____________.

demedicalization

In a U.S. town, a mining company owns all the stores and most of the houses. It sells goods to the workers at inflated prices, offers house rentals for twice what a mortgage would be, and makes sure to always pay the workers less than needed to cover food and rent. Once the workers are in debt, they have no choice but to continue working for the company, since their skills will not transfer to a new position. This situation most closely resembles:

debt slavery

If a sociologist points out that core nations dominate the global economy, in part by creating global interest rates and international tariffs that will inevitably favor high-income nations over low-income nations, he is a:

dependency theorist

The main difference between an ecclesia and a denomination is:

ecclesia are state-sponsored and considered an official religion

Functionalist theory sees education as serving the needs of _________.

families society the individual *all of the above

A ____________ perspective theorist might find it particularly noteworthy that wealthy corporations improve the quality of life in peripheral nations by providing workers with jobs, pumping money into the local economy, and improving transportation infrastructure.

functional