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Which of the following is an example of collective behavior

A group of people interested in hearing an author speak

Which of the following organizations is not an example of social movement

National Football League

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

Pneumonia and diarrheal diseases

which program is an example of socialized medicine?

The US Veterans Health Administration

What group created the Millennium Development Goals?

The World Health Organization

What is social epidemiology?

The study of the causes and distributions of diseases

conflict theorists see IQ tests as being biased. Why?

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

chronic fatigue syndrome is an example of _________

a contested illness

According to emergent-norm theory, crowds are

able to develop their own definition of the situation

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

access to education

Sidewalk ramps and Braille signs are example of _________.

accomodations required by the Americans and Disabilities Act and forms of accessibility for people with disabilities

Core nations that work to propel peripheral nations toward modernization need to be aware of:

all of the above

The protestors a the Egypt uprising rally were

and acting crowd

What are the most commonly diagnosed mental disorders in the US

anxiety disorders

Which of the following statements is not true?

blacks have lower cancer rates than whites

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

conflict

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

conflict theory

Which of the following is not a manifest function of eduaction

courtship

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

cultural transmission

The removal of homosexuality from the DSM is an example of _________

demedicalization

functionalist theory sees education as serving the needs of _______.

families, society, the individual

Core nations are also known as ______

high-income nations

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

Which public healthcare system offer insurance primarily to people over 65 years old?

medicare

China is undergoing a shift in industry, increasing labor specialization and the amount of differentiation present in the social structure. This exemplifies:

modernization

Mandy deaths in high-income nations are linked ti ________.

obesity

Public schools must guarantee that __________

per-student spending is equitable

conflict theorists see sorting as a way to _______

perpetuate divisions of socioeconomic status

When sociologists think about technology as an agent of social change, which of the following is not an example

population growth

A boy throwing rocks during a demonstration might be an example of __________

precipitating factors

If a movement claims that the best way to reverse climate change is to reduce carbon emissions by outlawing privately owned cars "outlawing cars" is the ______________

prognostic framing

Plessy v. Ferguson set the precedent that __________.

racial segregation in schools was allowed

Informal education ________

refers to the learning of cultural norms

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

requires everyone to have insurance or pay a penalty

if we divide social movements according to their positions among all social movements in a society, we are using the __________ theory to understand social movements

resource mobilization

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

resources and money

While PETA is a social movement organization, taken together, the animal rights social movement organizations PETA, ALF, and Greenpeace are a _________

social movement theory

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

social placement

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

social promotion

Great Britain's health care system is an example of _______.

socialized medicine

Who determines which illnesses are stigmatized

society

Key predictors for student success include _______.

socioeconomic status and family background

what term describes the separation of students based on merit?

sorting

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

stigmatization

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

symbolic interactionism

Social movements are

the collective action of individuals working together in an attempt to establish new norms beliefs, or values

Children in peripheral nations have little to no daily access to computers and the Internet, while children in core nations are constantly exposed to this technology. This is an example of:

the digital divide

In addition to social movements, social change is also cause by technology, social institutions, population and ____________.

the environment

Which of the following is not a 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

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

the social construction of health

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

they recruit top teachers

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

When the League of Women Voters successfully acheived its goal of women being allowed to vote, they had to undergo frame ________, a means of completely changing their goals to ensure continuing relevence

transformation

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

transmission of moral education

Sociologists using conflict perspective might study what?

what motivates inequitably treated people to join a movement


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