Sociology Exam 3

What group was most likely to move away from the urban core to the suburbs?

Whites

If an urban neighborhood were to suddenly develop an assortment of upscale restaurants, coffee shops, hip boutiques, and art galleries, then the neighborhood is:

becoming gentrified

A belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes is called:

feminism

If you hear someone say that "real men don't wear masks" what are they talking about?

gender

When parents use a sonogram to find out the sex of their baby and only start decorating the nursery after learning the sex, it is an example of:

gender socialization

Most poor people in the United States are unemployed.

False

How is prejudice different from discrimination?

Prejudice is an attitude, discrimination is an action.

How do sociologists differentiate between sex and gender?

Sex is biological; gender is social.

What do most Americans claim about their class status?

They are middle class.

How did the G.I. Bill of Rights, which provided funds for home loans, affect African Americans?

Though it was written to help all veterans regardless of race, African Americans were typically excluded from home ownership.

Belonging to a particular social class has a profound effect on almost every aspect of a person's life.

True

Even though a person's sex and gender usually match, this is not always the case.

True

Some sociologists suggest that extreme wealth should be thought of as a social problem, just like extreme poverty.

True

The tastes, habits, and expectations that children "inherit" (or learn) from their parents that help to achieve material success in life are called:

cultural capital

The study of the size, composition, distribution and change in a human population is called:

demography

Given that fertility rates in the United States have dropped below the level needed to maintain the population level, why is the population here growing?

immigration

The "Jim Crow" laws in the American South, which mandated separate facilities for whites and blacks, were an example of:

institutional discrimination

The shift of large segments of the population away from the urban core and toward the edges of cities is called:

suburbanization

Arlie Hochschild's study of two-income families found that women were much more likely to do the majority of the unpaid labor inside the home even after a full day's work outside the home. What term is used to describe this extra labor?

the second shift

According to conflict theory, how does the nuclear family facilitate exploitation?

through a sexual division of labor within the home

What has modern science determined about racial categories?

Biologically there is no such thing as a pure race.

Which of the following is an example of a prejudice?

believing that Asians are better at math

In the United States today, very few people marry outside of their own socioeconomic class, suggesting that there is a high degree of:

endogamy

How does the U.S. Census Bureau define "family"?

two or more individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption who share a household

Who is more likely to return home after a full day of paid labor and then have to put in a "second shift" at home taking care of domestic work?

women