Sociology 100
In which one of the following Chinese proverbs is this chapter rooted, according to Gladwell?
"No one who can rise before dawn 365 days a year, fails to make his family rich."
Which of the following is NOT an element of the "reactivist" definition of deviance, as presented in this screencast? (In other words, the list below contains elements of the reactive definition, but one of them is not an element of it).
"outside the norms"
According to Gladwell, in Chapter 4 of Outliers, the difference in the backgrounds of Chris Langan and Robert Oppenheimer led to differences in their ________________________ that contributed directly to their divergent paths.
"social savvy"
In general terms, who commits most of the violence against women?
In general terms, who commits most of the violence against women? their male partners (spouses, boyfriends, etc.)
Among the social theorists and sociologists discussed in this chapter, which was the one who felt that religions made people accept injustice in this world because they were hoping for justice in an afterlife, and that therefore the rich and powerful people of every society were the main beneficiaries of religiousness among the masses?
Karl Marx
________ argued that class struggles were what led to historical progress and development.
Karl Marx
The name of the graph illustrating broad changes in levels of economic inequality over time and over different types of societies is the ____________________ .
Kuznets curve
Of all white households in the U.S., 21% are "female-headed (single parent)" households. Of all black households in the U.S., ____% are the "female-headed (single-parent)."
54%
Section 4
Cards Start HERE!!
From this sample of five people who identify as "Latino" one would deduce that the two most common roots among Latinos would be:
Native American Indian and European
End of Exam one stuff
On to exam two!!
Whose family is at the center of the Epilogue in Outliers?
Malcolm Gladwell's
According to the screencast, based on the limited information presented, which of the following marriages would be considered most likely to end in divorce?
marriage between a 19 year old white girl and an 18 year old white boy
In Norway it is 45 weeks long, and in India it is 12 weeks long. According to the graphic in your textbook, only two countries in the world do not require some paid form of it: Papua New Guinea and United States of America. What is it?
maternity leave
According to the chapter, the qualities of successful rice farming -- hard work, persistence, and precision -- are similar to the qualities that make for successful ____________________.
mathematicians
According to this screencast, the increase in FLFP over the course of the 20th century has likely played a part in the increasing divorce rates we see over roughly the same period because of all of the following except ______________________________.
men are so uncomfortable with bosses who are women
The main advantage of field research techniques is the _________________________________.
depth of the evidence gathered
Florence is interested in researching how men's lives have changed as women have increasingly entered the workforce. What kind of research question will she be formulating?
developmental question
________________ refers to the dispersal of an ethnic population from an original homeland into foreign areas, often in a forced manner or under traumatic circumstances. Common examples are Jews and Africans.
diaspora
Almost all the successful hockey players were born in January - March. According to Gladwell this comes down to _________________________.
opportunities given the better hockey players
According to your textbook, groups toward which one feels antagonism or contempt are called ________ groups.
out-
In Chapter 3 of Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell tells us about the research, a long time ago, of Stanford psychologist Lewis Terman's research examining the relationship between genius (as measured by IQ test scores in about the top 0.01% when people are adolescents) and achievements later on in life. Terman's subjects were nicknamed _______________________.
Terman's termites
This "first" demographer lived in Britain at the beginning of the population explosion and he was very concerned that the rapidly increasing population in Britain at that time would ultimately mean that they would be unable to feed everyone -- that the agriculture and food production of the time would not be able to keep up with the demand. Who was he?
Thomas Malthus
According to the Screencast, which of the following would be an effective way to reduce the divorce rate?
eliminate womens' abilities to earn a living wage
According to this Screencast, which of the following is FALSE about Karl Marx?
he thought capitalism was the worst system for creating wealth
It has been calculated that the amount of money involved in white-collar crime in the United States is forty times greater than the amount involved in crimes against property, such as robberies, burglaries, larceny, forgeries, and car thefts
True
Match the society type on the left to the appropriate items on the right, using the dropdown box.
hunting and gathering => Least technologically advanced pastoral => livestock production agrarian => crop production industrial => mechanical production
"It is possessed of a government apparatus that is recognized to have sovereign rights within the borders of a territorial area, it is able to back its claims to sovereignty by the control of military power, and many of its citizens have positive feelings of commitment to its national identity." What is it?
a nation-state
The "Matthew Effect" refers to ___________________________.
a parable in the Gospel of Matthew
In the screencast, "twin studies" refers to:
identical twins separated at or near birth
According of Marx there is _____________________________ between the _________________________ of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, which explains why Nike might seek cheaper and cheaper labor pools.
an inherent conflict , interests
__________________ is a fixed pattern of behavior that appear in all normal animals of a given species.
an instinct
What did Hamburg represent for the career of the Beatles, according to Gladwell?
an unusual opportunity to accumulate performance hours
It is the geological epoch when human activities have become the main agent of change in our planetary ecosystem.
anthropocene
In the screencast, the professor adapted Horace Miner's "Nacirema" exercise to which of the following American pastimes?
football
According to the screencast, one reason that scholars think the divorce rates increased in industrialized societies like the United States as we moved from the 19th to the 20th century was because in the 20th century people were more likely to marry ______________________________.
for love and happiness
___________________________ theories of families have come under heavy criticism for justifying the domestic division of labor between men and women as something natural and unproblematic.
functionalist
One of the few differences that researchers have found between the children of two heterosexual parents vs. two homosexual parents has been in terms of
gender socialization
In this TED Talk, Ms. Russell tells us that "the real way that I became a model is that I won a _________________ and I am the recipient of a(n) _______________."
genetic lottery, legacy
MORE THAN ONE MAY BE CORRECT. According to Charles Mills, the racial system varies. Therefore,
if your family's economic situation changes, your race may change, if you move to a different country, your race may change, if you go back or forth in time (assuming that were possible), your race may change
What happens to birth and death rates during the period known as the demographic transition?
both decrease, but at first the death rate decreases far faster than the birth rate
When women leave the work force to raise children, their earnings potential decreases relative to men for each year they remain out of the work force. This helps explain how the gender wage gap is due, in part, to ________________________________.
institutionalized discrimination
In order to test the "culture of honor" thesis, University of Michigan social psychologists Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett created an experiment in which they would gather a sample of young males and:
insult them
Ethnomethodologists have identified and studied "_____________________________," a form of interaction that happens when a subordinate person breaks the tacit rules of everyday interaction that are of value to the more powerful.
interactional vandalism
Sarah has been collecting intensive interviews with women who organize in grassroots movements for wages for housework. Now she is looking over the interviews and trying to find common themes within them. What part of the research process is she in?
interpreting the results
According to the data presented in the screencast, of all the Western (European and North American) nation-states, the one with the highest levels of religiosity ___________________________________.
is also the one with the highest divorce rates
In this TED Talk, Ms. Russell points out that a study by an NYU Ph.D. student found that of 677 models who made to the "catwalk" (runway) only 27 (or less than 4%) were:
non-white
According to Gladwell in Chapter 4 of Outliers, one crucial difference in the outcome of "geniuses" Chris Langan and Robert Oppenheimer was their ___________________________.
class background
Select ALL correct answers. There are between 1 and 5 correct answers. According to your textbook, which of the following is true about the meaning of the term "class" in sociology?
class can be understood on the individual level in terms of "life chances", class is economically based, class positions are in some part achieved
According to the screencast, scientists are expected to
collect and use real-world evidence to assess their theories
According to the screencast, the scientifically inaccurate claim of biologically distinct human "races" (as opposed to one continuous and diverse species) was originally developed primarily as part of an effort to help explain. and perhaps justify, ___________________________.
colonizing and subjugating people.
According to Watts, _________________________ is the kind of intelligence that we rely on to navigate concrete everyday situations.
common sense
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER: Which of the following life course stages has gone from the most highly respected, in traditional society, to a somewhat lower social status in modern societies?
later life / old age
According to your textbook, the English word for school derives from the Greek word for ____________________________.
leisure
Countries in which voters can choose between two or more political parties and in which the majority of the adult population has the right to vote are usually called ____________________________.
liberal democracies
Based on the screencast, it appears that the shape of population pyramids becomes less like a pyramid with a point on top, and more "top heavy" and flatter on top as the average ___________________ of a population increases.
life expectancy
Folkways and mores are different kinds of
norms
According to the text, "in virtually all societies, sociologists and anthropologists have documented the presence of the __________ family, two adults living together in a household with biological or adopted children."
nuclear
David Neumark's audit study on restaurant hiring found that women were less likely to get an interview or get hired as waitresses at higher end restaurants, and this was most likely because ______________________________.
of discrimination.
The German sociologist Max Weber was highly influential in sociology for his studies of:
bureaucracy.
Classic sociologist Max Weber held that despite many drawbacks, this is the only way of coping with the administrative requirements of large-scale social systems.
bureaucratization
Which theoretical approach to understanding social movements focuses on "the how" - that is, on the different things people need to do if they want to even hope to have a collective impact against forces (e.g. governments) that are materially more powerful than they are.
resource mobilization
According to Anderson, what is at the heart of the code of the streets?
respect
In social science, a "survey" is a:
series of questions
In the video, Dr. Crawford showed images that came up as a result of a google search for "executive women." One of these women was wearing __________________________.
short and tight shorts
Check all correct answers. There are between 1 and 5 correct responses to this question. Which of the following do sociologists consider to be contributors to the social reproduction of the class structure (that is, of inequality)?
social background, cultural background
Civil inattention is a form of _____________________________.
social interaction social interaction
______________________ are collective attempts to further a common interest or secure a common goal (such as forging social change) through action outside the sphere of established institutions.
social movements
According to the screencast, the idea that there are multiple genetically distinct races of humans in the world is _______________________________________________________.
socially constructed and socially real.
According to your textbook, the development of towns surrounding a city is the process of _________________________________.
suburbanization
"Literally and figuratively, she is moving ahead. Her hair, if long, tosses behind her; if it is short, it sweeps back at the sides, suggesting mobility and progress. There is nothing shy or passive about her. She is confident, active, liberated." ... To what cultural phenomenon, that began around the 1970's, is this passage referring?
supermom
According to the screencast, the theoretical and empirical are interdependent because theories without ______________________ are ultimately useless, and empirical observations without ______________________ are not very helpful either.
supporting evidence, plausible explanations
According to this screencast, as you move along the anthropological stage of societal development from Hunting and Gathering societies on toward Post-Industrial societies, there is more and more _____________________.
surplus
According to Chambliss as reported in the screencast, we mystify it, "subsuming a complex set of discrete actions behind a single undifferentiated concept." The mystified concept is:
talent
Do you remember when Duncan Watts told you (quoting Paul Lazarsfeld) that "everything is obvious once you know what happened" and went on to explain that we can explain all sorts of things using our "common sense?" Well, that is very similar to what you learn in the screencast about what Daniel Chambliss has to say about athletic talent. He pointed out that we do not usually call someone "talented" until after we know they are talented -- because we already know what happened: they won the race, scored the points, etc. In Chambliss's formulation we would say that
talent is indistinguishable from its effects
According to the screencast, in which region of the United States will you tend to find the highest rates of divorce?
the South (the Bible Belt)
One of the reasons for the persistence of the gender wage gap is: ______________________.
the different types of jobs men and women do
According to Gladwell's account of the successful Jewish law firms, what was "the importance of being Jewish" in the early 20th century in New York?
the elite law firms wouldn't hire them, so they learned a different type of law which was eventually in high demand
That part of what is learned through our schooling system that is NOT part of the official curriculum is referred to by sociologists as _____________________________.
the hidden curriculum
Which one of the following facts would be consistent with a genetically determined argument about marital infidelity? (Looked at it from the other angle, three of the answers do NOT lend support to the argument that "infidelity is in our genes." Choose the other one!)
the higher rate of marital infidelity among men compared to women in a given year
"Bumfights" were introduced in the screencast to illustrate:
the impact of mass media on dehumanizing violence
Here in the U.S., since about 1970, we have moved from a mature industrial society into a post-industrial era. The most striking thing about the income quintiles over this period of time is:
the increasing inequality between the top quintile and all of the others
In this screencast, it is explain how the doctrine of separate spheres -- that is, the idea that a woman's place is in the home, and a man's place is at work / outside the home -- came about as a result of __________________________________.
the industrial revolution
"Your child's babysitter might be paid in cash 'off the books,' or without any receipt being given or details of the job recorded; the same may be true of the person who cleans your house or does your gardening, if you use such services." In this passage the textbook authors are referring to:
the informal economy
In sociology, the term "operationalization" refers to:
the process of defining variables so that they can be measured
According to the screencast, if you do not know what is deviant in a given social situation, subculture, or culture, where would you look to find out?
the social reaction
For Marx, the "proletariat" referred to
the subordinate class in industrial capitalism
Social scientists often take a cultural-relativist perspective because ____________________________________________.
their goal is to understand what is going on
A study of the long term outcome of University of Michigan Law School graduates found when you looked at success in their legal careers, that the academically most prepared and most successful students did not fare any better than students with lower grades or standardized test scores who were admitted under the school's affirmative action initiative. What does this have to do with the fact that whether you have a 120 IQ or a 180 IQ has no impact on a scientist's likelihood of winning a Nobel Prize?
they both demonstrate the threshold effect
In "Suspended Identity," the neophyte prisoners failed in their initial impression management. Ironically, they stuck out because ___________________.
they were trying so hard not to stick out
In a pie chart representing all family incomes in a country, one "quintile" covers 3% of the pie. This means that _________________________________.
those 20% of the people received 3% of all the family income
According to data shown in the screencast, if you take all the people who got married during the 50 year period between 1945 and 1994; and then looked only at those marriages that ended in divorce; and then you took "marriages that lasted more than 15 years before ending in divorce" as a measure of "commitment to their marriages" -- then which of the following groups would you consider to be LEAST "committed to their marriages?"
those who got married between 1945 and 1949
The Thomas Theorem is simply that "if people believe things are true, they are ________________________."
true in their consequences
The exercise you view in this screencast shows how, if you walk across planet earth, you will notice that the facial features of the indigenous (local, native) people change ___________________.
very gradually
When sociologists point out that "reality is socially constructed" they mean that _______________________________________.
we experience and interpret reality through our interactions with other humans and the cultures in which we find ourselves
For Professor Mills in the video, when you ask someone "what is your race?" what you are really asking is:
where are you located in the system?
In the classic experimental study by Jacobsen and Rosenthal, the researchers found that a very young student's IQ may be dependent in part on ____________________________________.
whether the teacher thinks she is smart or not
According to this screencast (and the prior one), it is unlikely that American's religiousness contributed significantly to increases or decreases in the divorce rate in the United States between 1890 and 2010 because:
while the divorce rate was increasing, our religiousness was fairly stable, and while the divorce rate decreased, we have become perhaps a bit of a less religious nation, overall.
Which of the following is the most accurate description of the topic of this video?
who does the housework?
SELECT ALL THAT ARE TRUE: Which of the following can be an agent of socialization?
work, family, peers, church, school
According to Christakis, if you have friends who have friends (who you do not know) and these people (who you do not know) are mostly obese, then _________________________________ than if these friend's friends were normal weight.
you have a higher risk of obesity
A group is one whose members share a distinct awareness of a common cultural identity that distinguishes them from other groups is called ______________________________.
an ethnic group
Which of the following is the scientific term for "a thing that impacts the other thing."
an independent variable
According to your textbook, the idea that they are the "model minority" has been applied to ______________________ in recent years.
Asian Americans
According to the Screencast, what is one of the main reasons that the rich get richer?
Because they can invest disposal income
ANSWER ALL THAT ARE TRUE: In an experiment described in your text book, some mothers were asked to assess the personality of a baby named Beth while others were asked to assess the personality of baby Adam. In this experiment ___________________________.
Beth and Adam were the same person
Which of the following is an example of an International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO)?
Doctors without Borders
Many diseases like smallpox and typhoid that have ravaged native populations spread in the context of ____________________________________.
European colonization
How do sociologists know that the causes of eating disorders (such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia) and obesity reflect social factors more than physical or biological factors?
Max Weber clearly showed that their origins lie in the cult of beauty present in the Roman republic.
Which of the following is false?
Wealth is what you earn minus what you spend
Answer: They are what sociologists call those places where people go, or are sent, to be resocialized.
What are total institutions?
A person named Alex tells you a correct answer to this question: It is an approach to the study of global inequality that understands the world as divided into three economic zones: core, periphery, and semiperiphery. What's the question?
What is World Systems Theory, Alex?
According to the screencast, while there are many different ways of defining these terms, in the U.S. the convention is generally that Latino includes people from COUNTRY X and excludes people from COUNTRY Y whereas Hispanic includes people from COUNTRY Y but generally excludes those from COUNTRY X. What are countries X and Y?
X is Brazil and Y is Spain.
When Juan drinks his morning coffee, he thinks about its production in Colombia, its transportation through many countries, the taxes and tariffs applied for international commerce, and the diverse array of social relations behind his drink. According to the textbook, one might say that Juan is using:
a global perspective.
Kevin is a ten-year-old American boy who lives in a poor neighborhood and suffers from childhood obesity. Which of the following factors is most likely to be a component causing his condition?
a lack of healthful food choices at school and home
Between one and five of the items listed below were discussed in this article. Choose all that were discussed, and do not choose any that were not discussed.
a ritual of inserting a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth (kinda like toothbrushes in the 1940's), holy mouth men (kinda like dentists), ritual fasts to make fat people thin, and ceremonial feasts to make thin people fat (kinda like diets and Sunday dinner), a cultural hero, Notgnihsaw, who chopped down a cherry tree (kinda like Washington), a latipso temple, where you go to die (kinda like a hospital)
In Outliers Chapter 9, "Marita's Bargain," who is Marita?
a student from a less than privileged background
Mercedes and Ty have been married for eight years and have a seven year old child. Ty is a plumber with American Eagle Plumbing of Athabaska. Mercedes is tired of staying at home and wants to return to work in her field, as a Human Resources specialist in the hotel industry, where she had worked prior to their marriage. Ty says he is fine with that -- in fact he is excited about the extra income it would bring in -- "so long as she doesn't expect me to clean the house now." Mercedes is fine with that too. She is only planning on working 25-30 hours a week anyhow. Based on this limited information, Arlie Hochschild would describe this as a marriage as _____________________________.
a transitional man to a transitional woman
Population pyramids are designed to graphically render the _____________________ of a population.
age structure
On average, a person's position in our U.S. stratification system is a product of some combination of that which happened to them (e.g. born in a certain family, place, century, race, gender, religion) vs. that which they accomplished as a result of their own efforts or actions. Thus if someone becomes a successful engineer, it is always the result of a combination of these, and the difficult question is the proportional contribution of each. This pair of intertwined social processes is known in sociology as __________________________________.
ascription and achievement
The acceptance of a minority group by a majority population, in which the new group takes on the values and norms of the dominant culture.
assimilation
On her Facebook account, Jennipher tries to make sure that her parents and family are kept separate from her college chums, and that her co-workers at Target are in a different group from the others as well. Based on the description in your textbook, Jennipher is engaging in _________________________________.
audience segragation
In Chapter 7, Gladwell describes the Power-Distance Scale as a measure used by researchers that helped them understand cross-cultural differences in the rates of plane crashes. It measures how individuals or a group such as a cultural community, deals with issues of _______________________________.
authority and hierarchy
According to demographic transition theory, what is the main cause of the population explosion?
decreasing death rates
One is a completely (or mostly) closed stratification system, and the other is the system more common around the world these days, something in between a completely closed and a completely open stratification. These are called _______________________ systems of stratification.
caste and class
Among the !Kung people of the Kalahari desert:
children are taught that aggressiveness will not be tolerated by boys or girls, men or women
In the "Moving to Opportunity Experiment," Raj Chetty found that moving to opportunity was particularly helpful for _______________________________________________.
children below age 8
Answer ALL that are correct. There may be between 0 and 5 correct answers. Which of the following are forms of religious organizations, according to sociologists?
church, sect, cult, denomination
There is more than one correct answer -- please check all correct responses for full credit. In the Screencast, I discussed some stuff that is internal to people, and some stuff that is external to people and hence potentially a part of the sociological enterprise. Identify and select only the EXTERNAL stuff from the list presented.
cultural, structural
What is the first step of the sociological research process?
defining the research problem
The two types of families described in this article are _____________ and ______________.
decent, street
The phenomenon of emerging and high income countries in ______________ is explained in your text as resulting from factors such as a strong work ethic, low labor costs, free public education, and Western support for what was seen as a firm boundary against the spread of Communism.
east Asia
In "Making it By Faking it," William Granfield studied law students who felt there was a potential stigma to their __________________ _____________in both the elite law school and perhaps at _________________________________.
economic-class backgrounds, elite law firms
According to the screencast, another one of the reasons that power is relevant to the social construction of reality is because people in positions of power are more likely than others in society to
effect consequences of their reality on the less powerful
Jennifer wants to collect rich and varied data about the lives of Native Americans who live on reservations. She wants to be able to not only document their lived reality but also to describe it as closely as possible. The best method of research for this kind of study would be:
ethnography.
"Why do people get so upset when apparently minor conventions of talk are not followed? The answer is that the stability and meaningfulness of our daily social lives depend on the sharing of unstated cultural assumptions about what is said and why." The branch of sociology concerned with uncovering the minute rules of conversation that give structure and stability to our mundane lives is called _________________________.
ethnomethodology
According to the screencast, one of the reasons that power is relevant to "the social construction of reality" is because people in positions of power are more likely than others in society to
have control of the flow of information and knowledge
If the average per capita (that is, per person) income is $40,000 (US dollars) then you are in a ________________________ income country.
high
What are the two main factors contributing to population growth in the major urban areas of the Global South?
high fertility rates and internal migration
In Chapter 6, Gladwell endeavors to explain to you how a "cultural of honor" explains generations of violence in Harlan, KY and in many parts of the U.S. South. He traces this "culture of honor" to:
highlands in Europe
In her book The Second Shift, all of the subjects of Dr. Hochschild's research were all of the following things EXCEPT ____________________.
highly educated
The "Moving to Opportunity" (Or "Dallas") Experiment, involved providing poor and disproportionately black families with:
housing vouchers
Which of the following most accurately describes the topic of this talk?
how you look has a huge impact on your life
Which of the following is NOT described in your text as among the most common categories of problems of aging in modern societies?
latent responsibilities
Which of the following are the four things the instructor is trying to do with this final series of screencasts?
illustrate once again how big social things (like long term trends) usually cannot be explained by just one or two independent variables, remind you that sociology is as much about asking the right questions as getting the right answers, show you once more how common sense is often a poor substitute for actual research, think again about what it means to use a sociological imagination
During the latter decades of the 20th century, almost all major footwear (shoe) manufacturers in the United States moved their production out of the country, most frequently to factories in southeast Asia. Every time this happened, it meant a loss of jobs somewhere in the U.S. This was illustrated in the screencast using the example of Nike. According to the screencast, why did Nike do that?
in order to stay competitive with Reebok, Adidas, and the rest of their competitors
The divorce rate in the United States:
increased for most of the period from 1890 to 1980, but has basically decreased since then
Based on the screencast, which of the following has NOT accounted for overall increases in the United States population over the course of the past two centuries?
increasing birth rates
Which of the following demographic trends is likely to yield a higher divorce rate?
increasing life expectancy
In Chapter 3 of Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell tells us about the research, a long time ago, of Stanford psychologist Lewis Terman's research examining the relationship between genius (as measured by IQ test scores in about the top 0.01% when people are adolescents) and achievements later on in life. According to the chapter, Terman's findings ultimately indicated that "genius" (as he measured it) __________________________.
is not as strongly predictive of achievement as he expected
Choose ALL correct responses. There are between 0 and 5 correct responses. Which of the following is true about the "developing world," according to your textbook.
it includes "emerging economies"
Select ALL correct answers. There are between 1 and 5 correct answers. According to your textbook, which of the following is true about the "working class" in the U.S.?
it includes pink-collar workers, it includes blue-collar workers
According to the screencast, what seems to be the main problem with the "kids these days explanation" of increasing divorce rates during the 20th century?
it is not usually supported by evidence
Why did Jane Jacobs think that a "diversity of uses" was important for neighborhoods to be safer and more habitable?
more eyes and ears
Before he became a sociologist, Christakis was a ____________________________.
physician
___________________ is the model of ethnic integration in which members of ethnic groups maintain their unique cultures and communities, yet also participate in the larger society's economic and political life.
pluralism
Much of this screencast is driven by questions about the _____________________________.
population explosion
The most common term used to note the information, service, and knowledge society, in which we (those in the "Western world") are now living, is:
postindustrial society
For this question, answer ALL correct choices. There are between 1 and 5 correct choices. According to your textbook, for which of the following attitudes has opinion become more sexually permissive (more people think it "it's acceptable" or "it's ok") over the past few decades?
premarital sex, sexual pleasure as a feature of marriage, homosexual behavior
If X is said to represent independent variables and Y is said to represent dependent variables, then it would be most accurate to say that sociological explanations are usually ______________________ because there are almost always a great many ________ for every _______, and we cannot know or measure them all.
probabilistic, X's, Y
Mead claimed to have shown that because it emerges from social interaction, requires symbolic communication, and develops by imagining or learning others' views, the ____________ is inseparable from ____________.
self, society
Technically, there are no ____________________________, rather all scientific theories (or hypotheses) are considered either ____________________ or not.
proven facts, supported
Laud Humphrey's 1960's era study of homosexual behavior is perhaps best known these days for its __________________________________.
questionable methodological ethics
Along with an emphasis on patriarchy, the argument that men are responsible for and benefit from the continued exploitation of women is most closely associated with which branch of feminism?
radical
Note: More than one of the following answers may be correct. Check all that are correct: According to the screencast, the problem with our mass media has not been that they have been teaching us "bad values" so much as they have been inundating us with "bad narratives" by which your instructor means narratives where everything is too-simplistically reduced to ________________.
right and wrong, good and evil, right and left, us and them
A(n) ______________________ is any reaction from others to the behavior of an individual or group that is meant to ensure that the person or group complies with a given norm.
sanction
According to Gladwell, the reason for the problems with Korean Air Lines flights a couple of decades ago had to do with deep-seated cultural influences that seemingly prevented crew members from:
saying what needed to be said
Sociologists call the housework, meal preparation, and childcare that gets done outside of paid work hours the _____________________________________.
second shift
In Chapter 9, "Marita's Bargain," what is the general point about stratification that Gladwell makes?
that hard work and long hours are important, and that the opportunity to work hard and long is stratified
The point of this exercise is to show how easy it is to see ___________________________________________.
that there is no such thing as distinct races among humans.
There is more than one correct answer -- please check all correct responses for full credit. In the screencast, I presented several definitions of culture as the term is used and understood in social science, and discussed some things that are not culture in the social scientific meaning of the term. From the list below, identify and select those items that fit squarely within the social scientific approach to culture.
that which binds people together in groups, total way of life, social legacy, storehouse of pooled learning
The main advantage of experiments is _______________________________________.
that you can control and manipulate the independent variables
According to George Herbert Mead, all human social experience involves a continuous internal conversation between the active initiator of action and the passive recipient or perceiver. He called this a conversation between the _____________________.
the I and the me
According to Watts, the telescope was to physics as __________________ may be for social science.
the Internet
Which of the following is identified in this screencast as one of the main forces for all sorts of social change in the past century -- and perhaps more so than any other single statistic?
the changing rate of female labor force participation
It is a trend we are in the middle of now -- the replacement of full-time workers by part-time workers and/or workers who are hired on a contract or "freelance" basis, often for a short-term task."
the contingent workforce
Which of the following best describes the topic of this talk?
unconscious gender biases
Acccording to the screencast, in the context of family socialization much of what children are socialized into, such as coping skills, gets transmitted _______________________.
unintentionally
According to ________, sociology must study social facts—aspects of social life that shape our actions as individuals—in order to become a science.
Émile Durkheim
