sociology test 4 final

High schools who ban same-sex couples from participating in prom are displaying _______________.

heteronormativity

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

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.

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 many babies out of every thousand are born intersex?

17

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

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

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:

the power elite.

A person dresses in flannel clothes, likes to hunt, and enjoys dancing. These characteristics relates to this person's ____________.

gender?

Learning how to brush your teeth and tie your shoes is an example of _________________.

informal education

If political organizations, corporations, advocacy groups, and many other groups share political power, then the United States would be characterized as having a ______________ model of power.

pluralistic

Systems and structures that persist over time and help organize group life are called:

social institutions.

The National Rife Association (NRA) seeks to preserve and expand the right to own and carry firearms in the United States. They spent over $5,000,000 in 2017 on efforts to lobby politicians. Based on this information, you would conclude that the NRA is a ____________________.

special interest group

Gender role socialization begins _________________.

before birth

How has the Kinsey Scale of Sexuality helped us to better understand sexual orientation?

It supports the idea that human sexuality exists as a highly diverse continuum over the lifetime of any individual.

In 2001, Judge Roy Moore of Alabama had a statue of the Ten Commandments installed in the Alabama Supreme Court. Given what you learned in your chapter on religion, why do you think this move created such a controversy in a state where more than 80% of the population identifies as Christian?

Law dictates there should be a separation between government and any single religion

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

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

Monique believes that religious practices such as prohibiting women from becoming priests promote inequality. Monique understands religion through which sociological lens?

conflict theory

If a person wears a cross to display their Christian faith, it is an example of ________________.

extrinsic religiosity