Sociology Test 3
Why did most white Ethnic Americans come to the United States?
- For a better life - To escape oppression
Ethnicity describes shared
- beliefs -language -religion
The racial term "African American" can refer to...
-A black person living in the United states - People whose ancestors came to the United States through the slave trade - A white person who originated in Africa and now lives in the United States
Stereotypes can be based on
-race -ethnicity -gender
CHAPTER 11 ( RACE | ETHNICITY)
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Chapter 14 ( MARRIAGE )
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CHAPTER 13 ( AGING )
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Chapter 12 ( SEX | GENDER )
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Same-sex couple households account for _____ percent of U.S households.
1%
What is the approximate median age of the United States?
37
Sociologists associate sexuality w/ ?
A person's capacity for sexual feelings.
According to the study cited by the U.S Census Bureau, children who live w/ married parents grow up with more advantages than children who live with
A single parent
According to national surveys, most U.S parents support which type of sex education program in school?
Abstinence PLUS sexual safety.
An older woman retires and completely changes her life. She's no longer raising children or working. However, she joins the YWCA to swim every day. She serves on the Friends of the Library board. She is part of a neighborhood group that plays Bunco on Saturday nights. Her situation most closely illustrates the _____ theory.
Activity
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act counteracts which theory?
Age Stratification
Which subordinate group is often referred to as the "MODEL MINORITY" ?
Asian Americans
Which factor most increases the risk of an elderly person suffering mistreatment?
Being frail to the point of dependency on care
What is discrimination
Biased ACTIONS against an individual or group
Which of the following is an example of a numerical majority being treated as a subordinate group?
Blacks under apartheid in South Africa
Compared to most Western societies, U. S. sexual attitudes are considered _______.
Conservative
Which of the following is correct regarding the explanation for transgenderism?
Currently, there is NO definitive explanation for transgenderism.
America's baby boomer generation has contributed to all of the following EXCEPT ...
Did NOT contribute to .... Medicaid being in danger of going bankrupt
Who wrote the book On Death and Dying outlining the five stages of grief
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
True or False: Only women are affected by gender stratification
FALSE
Which theoretical perspective stresses the importance of regulating sexual behavior to ensure marital cohesion and family STABILITY.
Functionalism
Which theoretical perspective: Women continue to assume the responsibility in the household along w/ a paid occupation b/c it keeps the household running smoothly
Functionalism
Which intergroup relation displays the LEAST TOLERANCE?
Genocide
What is the primary driver of modernization theory?
Industrialization
Many Arab Americans face ________, especially after 9/11
Islamophobia
Which of the following is the best explanation of racism as a social fact?
It does not need actions of individuals to continue.
What is the one defining feature of a minority group
Lack of Power
Amalgamation is represented by the ________ metaphor.
Melting Pot
Which assertion about aging in men would be made by a sociologist following the functionalist perspective?
Men who remain active after retirement play supportive community roles.
Which of the following is true of intimate partner violence (IPV) ?
Nearly half of instances of IPV involve drugs or alcohol
Which type of child abuse is most prevalent in the United States?
Neglect
What makes Native Americans unique as a subordinate group in the United States?
Only group that did not come her as immigrants
In Erik Erikson's developmental stages of life, with which challenge must older people struggle?
Overcoming despair to achieve integrity
Which of the following is the best example of the role peers play as an agent of socialization for school-aged children?
Peers tend to reinforce gender roles by criticizing and marginalizing those who behave outside of their assigned roles.
What intergroup relationship is represented by the "SALAD BOWL" metaphor?
Pluralism
What Western country is thought to be the most liberal in its attitudes toward sex?
SWEDEN
What doctrine justified legal segregation in the South?
Separate but equal
Which action reflects ageism?
Speaking slowly and loudly when talking to someone over age sixty-five years old
Current divorce rates are ...
Steadily declining ( I guess if fewer people are getting married, there's less divorces)
Speedy Gonzalez is an example of ...
Stereotyping
Which federal act or program was designed to ALLOW MORE Hispanic American immigration, NOT block it?
The Bracero Program
The "graying of the United States" refers to ______.
The increasing % of the population over sixty-five years old
A person who is biologically female but identifies with the male gender and has UNDERGONE SURGERY to alter her body is considered ________.
TransSEXUAL
As a Caucasian in the United States, being reasonably sure that you will be dealing with authority figures of the same race as you is a result of....
White privilege
Which of the following is the best example of a gender stereotype?
Women tend to be overly emotional, while men tend to be level headed.
According to the symbolic interactionist perspective, we "do gender"
all of the timeee, in everything we dooo
Research suggest that people generally feel that their current family is _______ than the family they grew up with
at least as close
If elderly people suffer abuse, it is most often perpetrated by ....
caregivers
Veterans are two to four times more likely to ______ as people who did not serve in the military
commit suicide
In the United States, life expectancy rates in recent decades have
continued to gradually rise
Thanatology is the study of
death and dying
An older man retires from his job, stops golfing, and cancels his newspaper subscription. After his wife dies, he lives alone, loses touch with his children, and stops seeing old friends. His situation most closely illustrates the ______ theory.
disengagement
Scapegoat theory shows that...
dominant groups blame subordinate groups for their problems
The terms "MASCULINE" and "FEMININE" refer to a person's ?
gender
The term_____ refers to society's concept of how men and women are expected to act and how they should behave.
gender role
In general, children in ______ households benefit from divorce.
high-conflict
Sociologist tend to define family in terms of
how a given society sanctions the relationships of people who are connected through blood, marriage, or adoption
Research indicates that individuals are aware of their sexual orientation ________.
in early adolescence
The median age of first marriage has _____ in the last fifty years.
increased for BOTH men and women
Today in the United States the poverty rate of the elderly is
increasing
Which of the following is a criticism of the family life cycle model?
it is too narrowly focused on a sequence of stages
In most countries, elderly women _______ than elderly men.
live a few years longer
Children of divorced parents are ______ to divorce in their own marriages than children of parents who stayed married.
more likely
A woman being married to two men would be an example of
polyANDRY
The measure that compares the number of men to women in a population is _________.
sex ratio
Couples who cohabitant before marriage are ____ couples who did not cohabitant before marriage to be married at least ten years.
slightly less likely than
For individual people of a certain culture, the life course is _______.
the typical sequence of events in their lives
The majority of U.S. children live in
two-parent households
