SOC EVERYTHING
Who studied emotional labor?
Arlie Hochschild
Frida's parents immigrated to the United States from Germany and have learned English and US norms. What is this called?
Assimilation
Rosa's parents immigrated to the United States from Mexico and have learned English and US norms. What is this called?
Assimilation
Which type of leadership style is the best in a time-sensitive crisis?
Authoritarian
In Afghanistan, when families have many girl children and no boys, families sometimes raise one of the girls as a boy. What is this idea called in Afghanistan?
Bacha Posh
Erica works in the kitchen of a restaurant. What dramatically analysis term would apply to the kitchen?
Back-stage
Olympic hockey players and their coaches are getting ready for game in the locker room. They will go onto the ice to play soon. What dramaturgical analysis term best represents this case?
Back-stage
This technique pulls from Zen Buddhism and suggest that experts get blocked by what they already know and tells people to try to unlearn what they already know. What is this called?
Beginner's Mind
Beth feels no sexual attraction. What category does she belong to?
Beth is an asexual person
Carrie feels sexual attraction for both men and women. What term reflects this idea?
Bisexuality
When exposed to a new culture in her travels, Dara finds that people greet one another by hugging, even strangers. She is disgusted and thinks that their culture is wrong to allow this behavior. What is this an example of?
Ethnocentrism
What is the fact that sports help people in society stay physically fit and help promote social connections an example of?
Eufunction
Who coined and developed the term intersectionality in the 1980s?
Kimberle Crenshaw
Who was the pioneering sex researcher in the 1940s that suggested that human sexuality was more diverse than previously assumed?
Kinsey
What are the disadvantages of ethnography?
Lack of replicability
What does early research suggest is happening for life expectancy for LGBTQ individuals?
Life expectancy for LGBTQ individuals is is twelve years lower in areas with high levels of anti-gay prejudice.
Which of the following is true of gender roles?
Masculinity and feminity are different from culture to culture around the world.
What is a notebook an example of?
Material culture
Where was slavery abolished in the 1980s?
Mauritania
In the structural-functionalist view from the 1950s, what role were men expected to have?
Men were expected to take on an instrumental role.
In country X, rewards are distributed based on merit. What is this concept known as?
Meritocracy
Nation A has an average standard of living when compared with the world as a whole. How would sociologists classify Nation A?
Middle-income country
Mildred and Richard Loving married in 1958 in Virginia. They were not of the same race. What is the romantic, sexual, or marital relationship between people of different races called according to the text?
Miscegenation
Luciana's teacher recommends that her students be open and receptive to experience. The teacher believes that students learn best if they unlearn what they already know. What is this case an example of?
The beginner's mind
My hypothesis is that as marriage age increases, then people are more likely to divorce. What is the dependent variable in this example?
divorce rates
If you teacher asks you to think creatively and critically about your place in your nation, the teacher is asking you to:
use your sociological imagination
What is an example of ideal culture in the U.S. according to the book?
"All men are created equal"
What is an example of material culture?
A soccer ball
What would a sociologist be more likely to study?
A sociologist would be more likely to study nurture.
What is shoe size an example of?
A variable
A factory worker only makes a dollar a day and cannot support the basic needs of her family. What is this case an example of?
Absolute poverty
Hana's family does not have adequate food and are homeless. What category does her family belong to?
Absolute poverty
Chicago's Community Organizing and Family Issues Group sent community members trained in sociological research to ask other parents about barriers to preschool enrollment. Based on their findings, they developed an outreach and public awareness campain. What type of research is this an example of?
Action research
Which of the following is a major element of social class as noted by Weber? All of the above Answers: a. Prestige b. Wealth c. Power
All of the above
Which of the following is a major element of social class as noted by Weber? d. All of the above Answers: a. Prestige b. Wealth c. Power
All of the above
Who is considered to be a "founding father" of sociology?
All of the above
What is a criticism of Kohlberg's study on moral development?
All of the above.
Which of the following is an example of social control? All of the above. Answers:a. The children on the playground shun a child that stole a toy. b. A murderer is sentenced to life in prison without parole. c. A teacher gives her well-behaved students fake money to buy candy and toys
All of the above.
Which of the following was true for W.E.B Dubois?
All of the above.
What is a latent function of universities and colleges?
Allowing people to begin lifelong friendships or marriages
Who are the Nacirema?
Americans
Robin Williams discusses American values that are central to our way of life. Which of the following is true based on his ideas?
Americans value material comfort.
How many slaves are there world-wide according to Bales?
27,000,000
What percentage of community college students were food insecure in the 30 days prior to Goldrick-Rab's survey in 2017?
42 percent
What percentage of households in the U.S. today are married couples?
48%
How many relationships are there in a group of four people? (Hint: See Figure 5.1 on p.126)
6
What is the current world population?
7 Billion
Roughly, how many people are living in the world today?
7 billion
At roughly what age can children successfully start playing team sports, according to Mead?
7 years
What percentage of the global income does the wealthiest 20 percent of the global population receive?
80%
What is the female-to-male earnings ration for 2017? (Hint: See Figure 9.2)
80.5%
In the United States, on average, how many cents do women earn to a man's dollar?
81 cents
Erica believes that abortion is wrong although people's opinions in her society vary quite a bit. What is course term is this an example of?
A belief
What is the act of murder considered?
A deviance
What is walking on the right side of the side walk in the United States an example of?
A folkway
When in the United States, what is a student raising their hand in the classroom to speak an example of?
A folkway
What is a hypothesis?
A hypothesis is a theorectical statement about explaining the relationship between two or more variables.
What court case ended segregation?
Brown versus Board of Education
In Case 1, a teacher discriminates against her racial minority students. In Case 2, banks across the U.S. are less likely to give minorities loan when compared with Whites, despite everything else (like their incomes) being equal. Which of the following is true?
Case 1 is an example of individual discrimination; Case 2 is an example of institutional discrimination
In Case A, banks across the U.S. are less likely to give minorities loan when compared with Whites, despite everything else (like their incomes) being equal. In Case B, a teacher discriminates against her racial minority students. Which of the following is true?
Case A is an example of institutional discrimination; Case B is an example of individual discrimination
According to Emile Durkheim, what impacts lower suicide rates among certain categories of people?
Certain categories of people have higher social integration.
What is a factor that is held constant to test the relative impact of the independent variable called?
Control variable
The managers at a company knew that they were dumping toxins into the water supply of the local community and making people sick. They did not make the appropriate changes to stop the dumping because they wanted to save their company money. What type of crime is this an example of?
Corporate crime
According to Figure 6.2, what has generally been happening to crime in the US from 1992-2017?
Crime levels have generally decreased during this period.
What is the spread of McDonald's and its fast-food culture worldwide an example of?
Cultural diffusion
What is the entire way of life that is passed down from one generation to the next?
Culture
Your book discusses the political tensions over the ""bathroon bills"" including in North Carolina. What is this conflict an example of according to the book?
Culture war
Which type of leadership style is the best for a team to feel valued and able to make a contribution?
Democratic
Demetrius was not hired at a particular company because the employer believed that African Americans do not work hard. How would you describe what happened to Demetrius?
Discrimination
Yuko's teacher spent less time with her than other students because the teacher assumed that Asian students always perform well, and therefore, do not need help studying. Yuko earned a "C" on her test. How would you describe what happened to Yuko?
Discrimination
Goffman created the idea of dramaturgy. What is true of dramaturgy?
Dramaturgy is a theatrical metaphor that looks at how we strategically present ourselves to others
Anna wants to know if more children bully others when authority figures like parents and teachers aren't around. She designs a research study where one group of children have authority figures present and another group does not have any authority figures present. She's going to use a hidden camera to record how the children act in the setting and count the number of times that children are bullied in each environment. What type of research method is this?
Experiment
Dr. Brown wants to know if the presence of a parent in the room with a group of children will change how children talk about the topic of bullying. He divides the students. His first group has a parent in the room. The second group does not have a parent in the room. What type of research method is Dr. Brown completing?
Experiment
What is the very best method to test a hypothesis?
Experiment
People who enjoy only high culture are known as omnivores.
False
What agent of socialization is thought to be the most important?
Family
Kara calls her mom's best friend, Aunt Leslie, although they are not biological or legally related. Which of the following terms is this an example of?
Fictive kin
Which wave of feminism focused on gaining the right to vote for women, known as the suffrage movement?
First Wave
According to the slide notes, who did Hochschild study in the workplace that had to keep a smile on their faces and act happy no matter how they were being treated?
Flight attendants
Who is known for taking scientific management a step further?
Ford
The North Carolina Courage are playing a soccer match. What would the field where they are playing be considered by Goffman?
Front-stage
Beyoncé understands what the beauty standard is in the United States and knows, generally, how other people would view her in terms of beauty. Which of Mead's stages is she in?
Generalized Other
What is an example of factors that promote sex trafficking?
Globalization of capital
Which of the following is a characteristic of new slavery?
Glut of potential slaves
Who translated Comte into English and wrote their own book, "Society in America?"
Harriet Martineau
At a community college, professors have supervisors called department heads, while department heads have supervisors called deans. What is this the best example of?
Hierarchy of offices
How would sociologists categorize the US?
High-income country
After the category of "white, non-Hispanic", which racial/ethnic category is the next greatest in terms of percentage of population?
Hispanic or Latino
In your textbook, which non-Western thinker's work predates Durkheim's ideas by more than 500 years? (Hint: its in one of the sections of the chapter called "Global Perspective.)
Ibn Khaldun
Which of the following is a hypothesis?
If the hours that students study increases, then it will cause their test scores to increase.
What are powerful groups that are often the majority, such as heterosexuals in the United States, known as?
In-groups
Which of the following is an eufunction of sports?
Increased physical fitness in the society
What country was traditionally an example of the caste system?
India
Both disability status and social class together play a role in people's lives. For example, if two people both use wheel chairs, but one can pay for a special van and driver to carry his wheel chair any time he wants, while the other is in poverty and must take the bus. What is this concept considering two variables at the same time known as?
Intersectionality
At birth, doctors notice that a baby's sex characteristics are neither exclusively male or exclusively female. What category does this baby belong to?
Intersexed
Sarah feels trapped by her society's rational, industrious, and controlling way of life. What is this concept by Weber known as?
Iron Cage
What is the idea that we are caught in buraeucratic structures that control our lives through rigid rules and rationalization? (Hint: it relates to Weber)
Iron cage
What is true of Otaku culture according to the book?
It's post-national
Who was the first athlete to break the color barrier in 1947? (See p.234 in textbook.)
Jackie Robinson
Who is thought to be the father of the social conflict approach?
Karl Marx
Who wrote the book "Disposable People?"
Kevin Bales
Nathan is a man who is supportive of feminism because he thinks women should be treated fairly and can see how men's lives are also constrained by sexism, while Luke is a man who thinks that feminism has created privilege for women, generally harming men. Which categories do these men belong to according to the textbook?
Nathan is a part of the pro-feminist men's movement while Luke is a part of the men's rights movement.
According to the textbook, what country uses education, job training, and therapy to rehabilitate inmates and has a "reintegration gurantee"?
Norway
People in the U.S. tend to agree that some work is more important to society than other work. What is this ranking known as?
Occupational prestige
In the slide notes, a new occurrence was discussed in which elites (based on occupation) now enjoy both popular and high culture. What are these elites called?
Omnivores
C. Wright Mills is a sociologist who wrote a book (and created a concept) called the sociological imagination. Which of the following is true of the sociological imagination?
Organizations shape our lives.
In the short clip by Dove, which of the following is the main message?
Our perceptions of beauty are distorted by the media.
Which structural-functional theorist thought that men and women should have complementary roles to help society?
Parsons
What is the term for the social organization where males dominate females?
Patriarchy
Which of the following are an example of counterculture? (Select the best two answer choices.)
People involved in the Civil Rights movement
Tara assumes the role of her mother, father, and doctor, but she cannot take on more than one role at a time yet. Which of Mead's stages is she in?
Play
What court case began segregation in 1896?
Plessy versus Ferguson
What is the name of the system of marriage that allows women to have multiple husbands?
Polyandry
Which of the following categories do hip hop, rock, and jazz belong?
Popular culture
A statistical analysis is performed, and there is a mathematical relationship between two variables, hours spent studying and grades. As hours studied increases, grades increase. What is this idea called?
Positive correlation
Dr. Brown is studying how students make sense of their lives during the pandemic. Her framework includes using mini-narratives rather than one large unifying narrative. She expects that social reality is constantly in flux. What theory is she using?
Postmodern theory
At daycare, David sees a toy that he wants to play with, but it belongs to Carlos. David thinks it is right to steal it because he wants to play with the toy. Which stage of Kohlbergs is David at?
Preconventional
Rob wants to eat a cookie, but it doesn't belong to him He thinks that it is right for him to steal it because he wants it. Which stage of Kohlbergs is Rob at?
Preconventional
"Wheeling and Dealing" is a book that included interviews with drug smugglers and observation of their lives. The authors wanted to better understand drug smugglers' point of view. What type of method are they using?
Qualitative
If a researcher wants to understand the point of view of interviewees and is not using the scientific method, what kind of research are they conducting?
Qualitative
John thinks that the man sitting beside him on a bus is African American due to his skin tone. Which of the following course concepts best reflects this thought by John?
Race
Two students are sitting at bench in front of the library at college. Julia thinks that the other person sitting beside her is African American due to his skin tone. Which of the following course concepts best reflects this thought by Julia?
Race
Larry disagrees with both the goals of the U.S. and the means of achieving those goals. He decides to protest society and try to get social change. What category does Larry fit in?
Rebellion
Researchers have developed a new intelligence (IQ) test. The participants taking the IQ test get very different scores each time they take it. What is there a problem with based on the information in this case?
Reliability
Bubba has created a survey to measure alienation. He is in the process of testing the survey, and he has discovered that it has both bad reliability and bad validity. What does this mean?
Respondents taking the survey get different results when repeated, and it does not measure alienation well.
What is it called when a researcher wants to know what percentage of Wake Tech students smoke cigarettes but surveys a smaller, representative group of Wake Tech students?
Sample
According to the notes, what would be the best example of a society?
The United States
Which of the following would make the problem of groupthink worse?
Selecting similar members for a team
The textbook discusses Genie. What caused her to have many challenges?
She was socially isolated.
Which of the following is one of the basic principles of stratification?
Social stratification carries over from generation to generation.
Which of the theoretical approaches best fits Zeynep Tufekci's view of algorithms?
Social-conflict approach
For a community college to function, there are many different occupations working together like professors, advisors, accountants, and librarians. What is this known as?
Specialization
What step of the scientific method is collecting data?
Step Five
You have been asked to respond to a series of statements mailed by a researcher. What type of method is this researcher using?
Survey
Which country has a high taxation rate of the wealthy at 60% while also providing many governmental services? The country also has a high life expectancy
Sweden
Which country has a high taxation rate of the wealthy at 60% while also providing many governmental services? The country also has a high life expectancy.
Sweden
Which of the following approaches is a micro-level approach?
Symbolic Interaction
Which of the following is an example of the term gender?
Talking to baby boys and girls differently
Martina is watching a news story about a soccer player in the United States who grew up in intense poverty. Now, the soccer player is in the upper class based on his job. What is this an example of?
The American Dream
What is/was the Nuremberg Code?
The Nuremberg Code is a set of moral and ethical guidelines for performing research on human beings.
After horrifying experiments were conducted in Germany during World War II, what guidelines are established for performing research that will protect human subjects from injury?
The Nuremburg Code
In the US, prisons have been moving towards for-profit, which critics argue exploits the prisoners. There's also been an explosion in the numbers of people in the prison system since the move towards for-profit prisons. What is this concept known as?
The Prison-Industrial Complex
The Smith family has two biological children, the father works outside of the home, and the mother works inside the home. Which of the following is the best answer?
The Smith family is an example both a traditional family and a nuclear family
Anna is learning to categorize the system of stratification in different countries in school. In the country she learning about, the country is stratified based only on birth. Which of the following is true?
The country is an example of the caste system and an closed system.
Dr. Smith thinks that increasing educational level causes income level to increase. What is income level in this example?
The dependent variable
What is true of the one-drop rule?
The one-drop rule defined who is Black or African American.
Generally speaking, what has happened to social distance between most races in the U.S. over time?
The social distance has decreased.
Renee is studying sports using a sociological theoretical approach, and her hypothesis is that racial minority players are disadvantaged and placed into less important positions with fewer rewards. Which approach would this hypothesis make the most sense for?
The social-conflict approach
Erica earns less than $25,000 a year, and she does seasonal work. She has some high school education. What social class does she likely belong to?
The working poor
Which of the following statements on inequality is true?
There is greater inequality between nations rather than within them.
Millie roots for and loves the NC Courage soccer team, and she dislikes the Portland Thorns, their rivals. What best describes the way she views the NC Courage?
They are her in-group.
What did the researchers find in the Minnesota Twin Family Study?
They found support for nature and nurture.
Who is least likely to have to have a health care crisis?
Those at the top of the social class ladder
Gramsci wrote while in prison.
True
Who is notable because his research impacted all following research on race and racial inequality in America, as well as being the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard University?
W.E.B. DuBois
Which of the following is a norm in the United States?
Waiting in a line to pay for your groceries
Which of the following is a norm in the U.S.?
Walking on the right side of the sidewalk
Which of the following is true of getting a job according to Granovetter?
Weak ties provide the most opportunities for finding a job when you are searching.
An accountant who managed a company's finances stole money from the company to benefit herself. What type of crime is this an example of?
White-collar crime
Who is more likely to be responsible for the second shift?
Women
