SOC215 final

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What did the case Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decide?

"separate but equal" was unconstitutional

What year did citizen women of all races get the right to vote in the United States?

1920

When were Native Americans granted citizenship

1924

What year was the National Origin's Formula replaced with the Nationality Act?

1965

Prior to World War II, how many black physicians graduated annually in the United States?

20

The Great Compromise of 1787 determined that slaves counted as _____ of a person toward political representation.

3/5

How many Native American tribes are currently recognized by the U.S. government and are entitled to health care?

560

The first public schools in the United States were established after the ______.

American Revolution

Who gave the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition speech in 1895?

Booker T. Washington

This is the U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Virginia's law requiring the sterilization of those deemed "socially inadequate" and living on government support in 1927

Buck v. Bell

Which US state was mentioned in class for having conducted forced sterilization procedures on incarcerated women as recently as 2014?

California

______ is viewed as the father of modern criminology.

Cesare Lombroso

What was the first group that was targeted by anti-immigration sentiments in theUnited States?

Chinese

______ refers to political practices and processes that although not enshrined into laws, were carried out in practice by various entities.

De facto

______ refers to political practices and processes that were enacted as formal laws.

De jure

Who was the first sociologist to recognize the impact of stress on health?

Emile Durkheim

As individual wealth increases, health decreases.

False

Which president tried to reform education with the program No Child Left Behind?

George W. Bush

Which of the following is not true of gender differences in the U.S. education system?

Girls do better on standardized tests than boys

Which U.S. historical event attracted more than 25,000 Chinese immigrants to theUnited States?

Gold Rush

What was the first university built and chartered in the United States?

Harvard University

Which leader was strongly influenced by the eugenics movement?

Hitler

This critical race theorist coined the term "intersectionality."

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

Which group was the focus of the Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District ofOrange County case in 1946?

Mexican Americans

Which of the following is true of the Immigration Law of 1891?

Pregnancy was considered a reason for deportation. Poverty was considered a reason for deportation. IQ tests were used. All of the above

Which of the following is true regarding Native American citizenship?

Prior to 1924 Native Americans were considered sovereign nationals

The most significant increase in the adverse treatment of men of color occurred after the election of this U.S. president, after which voters and politicians decided to get"tough on crime."

Ronald Regan

Which of the following is true about home health care workers?

Some lack the protection of a guaranteed minimum wage

Who was the first African American to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court?

Thurgood Marshall

______ consists of indigenous knowledge, skills, and practices that have been passed down over generations.

Traditional medicine

People categorized as belonging to the same race have very little in common genetically or biologically.

True

Reproductive justice addresses the social reality of inequality, specifically, the inequality of opportunities that we have to control our reproductive destiny

True

This is the best known medical experiment of a minority group in the United States and led to a legacy of mistrust ?

Tuskegee Experiment

Which group experiences fewer preterm births compared to blacks?

Whites Asians Pacific Islanders All of these

Which sociologist would argue that education functions to maintain the social hierarchy by creating workers, who then sustain the wealth of the elite?

Wright Mills

The re-socialization of Native American children in boarding schools has been described as ______.

a soul wound

To garner greater support for access to contraception, Margaret Sanger ______.

advanced eugenics ideologies to argue that birth control would benefit white society

What is one of the impacts of childhood lead poisoning?

all of these organ damage permanent behavioral changes decreased IQ

This theory of deviance argued that a significant way of decreasing serious crime was to halt vandalism.

broken windows

This reflects the legal process countries use to regulate national identity, membership, and rights.

citizenship

This approach to power assumes that the type of economic system a society has determines the kind of political processes.

class approach to power

Stories that include data and voices that stock stories ignore and often convey a very different understanding of identity and inequity are referred to as _________________.

concealed stories

This refers to the meanings, codes, understandings, and practices that people accumulate and use to exchange for other goods in societal or economic markets.

cultural capital

When the education system is dominated by white middle-class ideology it disenfranchises minority students from exercising their ______.

cultural capital

This approach to deviance views poverty as a set of choice made by unwed mothers that perpetuate crime, deviance, and other pathologies across generations.

culture of poverty

Jim Crow laws in the south represent ______.

de jure laws

This refers to all actions or behaviors that defy social norms

deviance

Wearing a white dress as a guest to a wedding is an example of ______.

deviance

This theory of deviance proposes that differences in criminal involvement among groups results from their differential definitions of criminality.

differential association

This type of law revokes a person's right to vote.

disenfranchisement

This was a mental illness invented to explain why slaves tried to escape slavery.

drapetomania

What type of study would be concerned with the correlation of race and class with different types of infectious illnesses?

epidemiology

What was the focus of the Niagara Movement?

free education for all

This theory of crime proposes that racism produces stressful events and environments that lead to negative emotional experiences that can lead to crime

general strain theory

Which of the following theories focuses on skill development?

human capital

What is the occupational function of teaching a student to "sit in your assigned seat"?

importance of maintaining order

What is the occupational function of teaching a student to "eat when it is time for lunch"?

importance of schedules

Which of the following is more likely to be located in poor and minority neighborhoods?

landfills incinerators waste sites all of these

This de jure law, following the Civil War, required a person seeking to vote to read and interpret a section of the state constitution to the county court.

literacy test

These are brief, verbal, nonverbal, and behavioral insults to a person or group, whether intentional or unintentional

microaggressions

This posits that power within society is decentralized, widely shared, diffuse, and fragmented.

pluralism

The term "political identities" refers to ______.

political identities based on social positions and associations

This is defined as the ability to acquire scarce resources.

power

This model of power suggests that power is concentrated among a discrete group of elites who control the resources of significant social institutions.

power elite model

This refers to the policies that target and greatly expand the U.S. inmate population

prison-industrial complex

This refers to the awareness of race shared by members of both a group and the wider society.

race consciousness

The YouTube video "Driving While Black" depicts the frequency with which Black men are targeted for investigation by law enforcement. Which practice does this highlight?

racial profiling

This includes the use of law enforcement and private security to target people of color for ridicule, extensive policing, detentions, interrogations, searches and seizures often with no evidence of criminal activity

racial profiling

The practice of teaching only English norms in boarding schools is an example of______.

re-socialization

This is a term used to describe the practice of sorting and ranking geographic areasfor the purpose of determining mortgage lending for minority members.

redlining

These were organized groups of white men with police powers used to systematically regulate a specific population by enforcing the Slaves Codes.

slave patrols

This theory of deviance links crime to neighborhood ecological patterns.

social disorganization

This is the process by which members of society are taught society's dominant roles, norms, and values.

socialization

The fact that people of color are more likely to be victims of police abuse, racial profiling, and differential criminal sanctioning illustrates this concept.

systemic racism

This occurs when a system of inequality based on race, often within institutional settings such as police, prisons, or court systems, are often associated with differential outcomes in crime and deviance

systemic racism

This includes norms and institutions that obscure the racial intent of laws.

white normative structures

The idea that parents of white children do not have to worry as much that their children will be the target of police brutality compared to parents of minority children illustrates ______.

white privilege

This refers to laws, practices, and behaviors that preserve and (re)create societal benefits that benefit people identified as white.

white privilege

Which of the following is not an example of cultural capital?

your eye color

Which sociologist explained that education instilled a sense of morality and social cohesion in individuals?

Émile Durkheim


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