SOC FINAL
Which of the following sociological perspectives is concerned with the ways the educational practice known as "tracking" leads to inequality and different outcomes for different categories of students?
conflict
What does Jean Baudrillard call an image in the media that people can no longer distinguish from the reality that it is supposed to represent?
simulacrum
In Schooling in Capitalist America, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis argued that schools train a labor force in the skills and attitudes necessary for the health of a modern economy. What are these skills and attitudes?
taking orders and performing repetitive tasks
A pattern of relations between ethnic or racial groups in which the minority group is absorbed into the mainstream or dominant group, making society more homogenous
Assimilation
The term that refers to the legitimate use of power is called
Authority
In the opening pages of The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan wrote about a problem that "lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women." What was this problem?
Women experienced dissatisfaction with traditional gender roles.
How are the terms "gender" and "sex" different?
The term "sex" refers to the biological differences between males and females, whereas the term "gender" refers to the socially constructed behavior of men and women.
Manny believes that religion gives meaning to his life. He believes that religion helps him understand the most fundamental questions about life and existence. Manny understands religion through which sociological lens?
structural functionalism
"Gender is socially constructed and maintained in our everyday lives. Gender is something we 'do' on a daily basis." This statement most likely comes from which perspective
symbolic interactionism
a socially defined category based on real or perceived biological differences between groups of people
race
Systems and structures that persist over time and help organize group life are called:
social institutions
Short sentences or phrases on a political subject, designed to be catchy and memorable but not necessarily to convey much information, are called
sound bites
Lamar believes that there are certain social roles better suited for men and others better suited for women. For instance, he is a firm believer that his wife should be the person who sends birthday cards to family members. Lamar's perspective aligns with
structural functionalism
How many babies out of every thousand are born intersex?
17
the upper class makes up just 1% of the total US population, but their net worth is greater than that of ___ of the rest of the population
90%
Why do politics, education, and religion all appear in the same chapter of your text
Political, religious, and educational concerns often overlap in everyday life.
C. Wright Mills identifies the small and unified group of people who occupy the highest positions of the major economic, political, and military institutions and exercise tremendous influence in American social life as
Power Elite
A socially defined category based on real or perceived biological differences between groups of people
Race
Scientists who are searching for a "gay gene" have been criticized by sociologists for their narrow understanding of sexual orientation, which does not take into account the way biology and the social environment interact to produce sexual behaviors. Which of the following theorists makes this point?
Social historian Jeffrey Weeks, who points out that even though homosexual acts have been documented throughout history, homosexual identity as we know it today didn't exist before the twentieth century
What do functionalists generally believe to be true about gender?
Some social roles are better suited to one gender than the other.
In her introduction to a paper about gender, the sociologist Rae Blumberg said that the central principle behind gender in our society is "remember the golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules." What kind of theorist is Blumberg?
a conflict theorist
Most sociologists argue that gender is a social construction, and they acknowledge the possibility that binary male-female categories are not the only way of classifying individuals. This perspective is called
a constructionist perspective
Patriarchy can be defined as
a society in which women are dominated by men
According to your textbook, what do all religions have in common
a system of beliefs and rituals that establish a relationship between the sacred and the profane
How has the Kinsey Scale of Sexuality helped us to better understand sexual orientation?
c. It supports the idea that human sexuality exists as a highly diverse continuum over the lifetime of any individual.
Monique believes that religious practices such as prohibiting women from becoming priests promote inequality. Monique understands religion through which sociological lens?
conflict theory
The tastes, habits, expectations, skills, knowledge, and other cultural dispositions that help us gain advantages in society
cultural capital
What is the central means by which modern society transmits knowledge, values, and expectations to its members
education
a socially defined category based on common language, religion, nationality, history, or another cultural factor
ethnicity
