sociology quiz #2
What is a difference between a more and a folkway?
Mores may carry serious consequences if violated; folkways do not.
The poverty line for a family of four in the U.S. is...
$24,000
The term meritocracy is defined by the lecture as:
A bureaucracy where membership and advancement is based on proven and documented skills.
Which of the following is an example of an informal sanction?
The football team throwing a slushy in Finn's face because he tried to join the Glee club.
What does it mean to say that sex and gender are socially constructed?
They include categories that are created by humans and recreated through institutions and interaction and vary across different societies.
Most people are poor only briefly in the U.S.
True
How did Max Weber define social class?
according to a person's power, prestige, wealth
Ivanka Trump is the daughter of business mogul Donald Trump. Her role as heiress to the Trump fortune is an example of ______.
ascribed status
Hope is desperate for the new designer purse that she saw while window shopping at her local mall. She knew every girl in school would covet her bag and wish to be like her. When she walked in, she whipped out her credit card, and purchased the $5,000 bag. This kind of purchasing is called:
conspicuous consumption
_________________ is the disoriented feeling which occurs in the context of being in a new culture.
culture shock
what is NOT cultural capital?
having alot of money
What is an example of a counterculture?
hippie movement of the 60's
Income inequality has _______ in every US state since the 1970s.
increased
Which of the following is an example of Weber's concept of "life chances"?
life expectancy, access to opportunities and resources, quality of life
which theory focuses on the way we use popular culture to make sense of ourselves but also emphasize how others shape our tastes, values, and identity?
symbolic interactionism
how did Bourdieu define social reproduction?
the tendency for social class status to be passed down from one generation to the next
What is the difference between a primary group and a secondary group?
A primary group is small, consisting of emotional face-to-face relationships; a secondary group is larger and impersonal
Who are the Narcirema?
Americans
__________ is the tendency to look for the cultural context in which differences in cultures occur and to appreciate those differences.
Cultural relativism
Who would be the most likely to say that clothing, speech, gestures, possessions, friends, and activities provide information about our socioeconomic status?
Erving Goffman
what is the belief that one's culture is the "best"?
Ethnocentrism
Most Americans believe that the government bears the main burden of taking care of the poor.
False
What is the difference between sex and gender?
Gender is the extent to which one identifies as being either masculine or feminine, sex is biological characterization of anatomy.
______________ is the socio-economic layering of society's members according to wealth, power, and prestige.
Social stratification
In the early 2000's, The L Word and Queer as Folk debuted on Showtime. Both shows depicted the lives of members of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community, thus giving viewers a glimpse into a ______.
Subculture
