Final

Supercentenarians are people who are?

110 years old

How many pillars are essential to the Islamic faith?

5 pillars of the Islamic faith

In 2013, the number of refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide exceeded how many people?

50 Million

Polygyny is?

A man who is married to more than one women at the same time.

The concept of hidden curriculum can be defined as

A type of nonacademic knowledge that one learns through informal learning and cultural transmission

What is secondary aging?

Aging and that occurs due to controllable factors like exercise and diet.

What is the basic idea behind disengagement theory?

As people age, they generally withdraw from all forms of society.

The term sorting can be defined as

Classifying students based on academic merit or potential

What is the relationship between people who cohabitate and then get married from those people who wait to live together after they're married?

Cohabitation are unmarried partners and have a slightly higher divorce rate after they get married than those who don't cohabitate until after marriage.

Which of the following sociological perspectives argues that the educational system reinforces and perpetuates social inequalities arising from differences in class, gender, race and ethnicity?

Conflict theory

Why has e-waste become an issue, especially in the 21st century?

E-waste not only contains harmful chemicals, but electronics become obsolete every six months or so. Which means every six months, people are throwing away perfectly good electronics in order to get the newest one. This has led to an enormous increase in the amount of trash people produce.

When elderly people are considered elders and leaders of a group of people, they are functioning under a

Gerontocracy

"Climate change" is a less politicized phrase that has replaced:

Global Warming

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, three fourths of children of divorced parents live with their mother. What impact might this have on the U.S. male populations over time?

Men may be more aggressive which may lead to an increase in crime, domestic violence, etc.

Why do we have two words for a big city?

Metropolis is just one city. Megalopolis includes many different cities.

Which court case set the precedent for access to education within the United States for students with disabilities?

Mill's v Board of Education of the District of Columbia

Some conflict theorist ascribe to the idea that as time and technology move forward, eldery peoole are left behind and they lose social standing and power. Which specific theory does this describe?

Modernization theory

What are the factors of the sociological perspective on religion?

Religion is a cultural universal; Religion is a social institution; religion is a system of beliefs

Megachurches have become popular in certain parts of the United States. Where else in the world are they widely popular?

South Korea

Corporal Punishment is another way of saying:

Spanking

A symbolic interactionist may choose to study senior centers and other groups of elderly people. Which theory might they find useful for their study?

Subculture of aging theory

Which text is considered sacred to Christian's of all sects?

The Bible

What is a dependent ratio?

The comparison of working people to non-working people.

The terms formal education is defined by the text as:

The learning of academic facts and concepts

If we consider the concentric zone model, which is a conflict theorist's critique?

The model fails to show the gentrification of nieghbors as certain classes start to take over cities

Which factors do sociologist suspect were the cause for such a high divorce rate during the 1960s?

There was an increase in women working outside of the home, and also, greater social acceptance of divorce

What religion did the Yin-Yang symbol come from

Toaism

Which three states allow some form of physician-assisted suicide?

Washington, Oregon, and Montana

To a conflict theorist marriage and families are fascinating because

Within the family there are social standing and power struggles

Understand what symbolic interactionism is.

You are interested in how ordinary objects become sacred.

What is environmental racism?

the burdening of economically and socially disadvantaged communities with a disproportionate share of environmental hazards. Ex: Josh sits in his kitchen in the city projects trying to sip his coffee while inhaling nauseating fumes wafting from the town down that was relocated to within a mile from his home. He desperately wishes he can move but he works two jobs just to make ends meet.

Understand what a sect within the church system is

When someone realizes how similar their practices and beliefs are to their denomination of choice

DWE (driving while elderly), is consisdered to be a type of:

ageism

What is patrilocal residence?

A system in which it is customary for the wife to live with or near the husbands family

Match the following court cases

Plessy v Ferguson - allowed racial segregation in schools and private businesses Brown v board of education- declared that state laws that had established separate schools for black and white students were unequal and unconstitutional Mills v board of education of the District of Columbia- set precedent for universal access to education in the United States

What is involved in the latent function of education?

Political and social intergration, courtship, working in groups

Which position describes Karl Marx's view of religion and society?

Religion simply kept the Proletariat in their low social class

Which two words did Emile Durkheim use to distinguish between religious objects and non-religious objects?

Sacred; profane

What is involved in the manifest function of education?

Socialization, social control and social placement

Family is a term that is difficult to define. When studying sociology it is important to remember that:

Sociologist try to keep the definition open to encompass all types of people who are emotionally close to each other

Paris has been studying the demography of the United Kingdom. The U.K. is very similar to the United States or Sweden in that it is industralized, has relatively long life expectancy, and infant mortality is low. Which stage in the Demographic Transition Theory would the U.K. fall into?

Stage 4

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's book, On Death and Dying, added much content knowledge to which field?

Thanatology

What was the name of the agreement that several countries signed as a way to pledge the lessoning of carbon emissions?

The Kyoto Protocol

In which part of the family life cycle, do sociologist point to as the most stressful time for a marriage?

The birth of the first child

Watching television shows can be a good way to understand and study families because:

They teach us how a family on screen can represent the values of the era in which they aired.

What is Liberation Theology?

When you realize that the poor were being neglected in their city, they mobilized the memebers of their synagogue to send letters to the government asking them to fix the growing rate of poverty, or at least, fund the citizens so they might help their neighbors

What is cornucopia theory?

You are working to develop drought-resistance seeds that require little water to grow and which produce grain. She wants to send these to arid parts of the world where conventional grain is not easy to grow, to improve nutrition for the people in those countries

What is zero population growth theory?

You noticed that infertility has been affecting many of his integrenrationl friend and family. Based on this observation, Anil is writing his senior thesis on the effects that certain cities, water quality and hormones might have on his friends