TEST 3 REVIEW

What is the approximate median age of the United States?

40

According to the textbook, on average, female workers in the U.S. earned about ______ cents on the dollars as compared with male workers in 2015

77 cents

No Child Left Behind, is a federal policy related to school funding passed by the ______ Administration

Bush 2

According to lecture and the textbook, the world's three largest religions are:

Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam

Only women are affected by gender stratification.

False

Which theoretical perspective stresses the importance of regulating sexual behavior to ensure marital cohesion and family stability?

Functionalism

In what part of the world is Hindusim primarily practiced?

India

______ claimed that religion was an opiate of the people, one which capitalist societies utilized to perpetuate inequality and preouccpy people with outer-worldly concerns and thus ignore the real problems of the world

Marx

What are some denominations of the Protestant church?

Methodist and Lutherans

Although some still may consider them as such, which of the following religious groups are not cults?

Quakers and Amish

Which action reflects ageism?

Speaking slowly and loudly when talking to someone over age 65

conflict theorists see IQ tests as being biased. Why?

They favor affluent students with upper-class cultural capital.

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

They recruit teachers from Master's degree programs who are specialists in their field.

This scholar claimed that the ethos of Calvinism had helped promote capitalism in Protestant majority nations. His theory was explained in his work the 'Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.'

Weber

Which of the following is the best example of a gender stereotype?

Women tend to be overly emotional, while men tend to be levelheaded

Age stratification theory details discrimination against the elderly purely based on how old they are, or what is called:

ageism

According to the symbolic interactionist perspective, we "do gender":

all of the time, in everything we do

If elderly people suffer abuse, it is most often perpetrated by ______.

caregivers

Compared to most Western societies, U.S. sexual attitudes are considered _______.

conservative

An older woman retires and completely changes her life. She is no longer raising children or working. However, she joins the YWCA to swim every day. She serves on the Friends of the Library board. She is part of a neighborhood group that plays Bingo on Saturday nights. Her situation most closely illustrates the ______ theory.

continuity

An older man retires from his job, stops golfing, and cancels his newspaper subscription. After his wife dies, he lives alone, loses touch with his children, and stops seeing old friends. His situation most closely illustrates the _______ theory.

disengagement

True or False. Similar to Christianity, Buddhism is a monotheistic religion which emphasizes the role of a godhead, with Buddha serving the role of Christ, a god-like figure that must be worshipped

false

[True or False] No Child Left Behind is a federal program that provides academically focused preschool to students of low socioeconomic status

false

Deference and respect to one's parents and ancestors in all things is known as:

filial piety

The terms "masculine" and "feminine" refer to a person's _________

gender

The term _______ refers to society's concept of how men and women are expected to act and how they should behave.

gender role

According to Sociologists, the main reason women constitute the overwhelming majority of students graduating with degrees in library science, elementary education, and nursing is __________

gender socialization

Due to ____________, employers have more and more noticed that A-level students don't have the competency evident in the past. More and more, they find themselves in the position of educating new hires in abilities that, in the past, had been mastered during their education.

grade inflation at American colleges and high schools

A cultural universal is something that:

is found in all cultures

Today in the United States the poverty rate of the elderly is ______.

lower than at any point in history

Conflict theorists see sorting as a way to ________.

perpetuate divisions of socioeconomic status

Informal education _________________.

refers to the learning of cultural norms through participating in society

_________ refers to aging that occurs due to controllable factors like exercise and diet

secondary aging

A person's physical, mental, emotional, and sexual attraction to a particular sex, male or female is known as:

sexual orientation

Many stories in the sacred text of Judaism are:

shared by Christianity and Islam

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

The unwritten rules of how to behave in society that we are taught in American schools is known as:

the hidden curriculum

The "graying of the United States" refers to ________.

the increasing percentage of the population over sixty-five years old

True or False. Most conservative Christian denominations believe that homosexuality is incompatible with their religion.

true

[True or False] Sociologists and teachers alike have contended that No Child Left Behind has had a negative effect on American schools, and has encouraged 'teach to the test' to insure students pass standardized tests.

true