TEST 3 REVIEW
What is the approximate median age of the United States?
40
According to the textbook, on average, female workers in the U.S. earned about ______ cents on the dollars as compared with male workers in 2015
77 cents
No Child Left Behind, is a federal policy related to school funding passed by the ______ Administration
Bush 2
According to lecture and the textbook, the world's three largest religions are:
Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam
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
In what part of the world is Hindusim primarily practiced?
India
______ claimed that religion was an opiate of the people, one which capitalist societies utilized to perpetuate inequality and preouccpy people with outer-worldly concerns and thus ignore the real problems of the world
Marx
What are some denominations of the Protestant church?
Methodist and Lutherans
Although some still may consider them as such, which of the following religious groups are not cults?
Quakers and Amish
Which action reflects ageism?
Speaking slowly and loudly when talking to someone over age 65
conflict theorists see IQ tests as being biased. Why?
They favor affluent students with upper-class cultural capital.
What do nations that are top-ranked in science and math have in common?
They recruit teachers from Master's degree programs who are specialists in their field.
This scholar claimed that the ethos of Calvinism had helped promote capitalism in Protestant majority nations. His theory was explained in his work the 'Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.'
Weber
Which of the following is the best example of a gender stereotype?
Women tend to be overly emotional, while men tend to be levelheaded
Age stratification theory details discrimination against the elderly purely based on how old they are, or what is called:
ageism
According to the symbolic interactionist perspective, we "do gender":
all of the time, in everything we do
If elderly people suffer abuse, it is most often perpetrated by ______.
caregivers
Compared to most Western societies, U.S. sexual attitudes are considered _______.
conservative
An older woman retires and completely changes her life. She is 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 Bingo on Saturday nights. Her situation most closely illustrates the ______ theory.
continuity
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
True or False. Similar to Christianity, Buddhism is a monotheistic religion which emphasizes the role of a godhead, with Buddha serving the role of Christ, a god-like figure that must be worshipped
false
[True or False] No Child Left Behind is a federal program that provides academically focused preschool to students of low socioeconomic status
false
Deference and respect to one's parents and ancestors in all things is known as:
filial piety
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
According to Sociologists, the main reason women constitute the overwhelming majority of students graduating with degrees in library science, elementary education, and nursing is __________
gender socialization
Due to ____________, employers have more and more noticed that A-level students don't have the competency evident in the past. More and more, they find themselves in the position of educating new hires in abilities that, in the past, had been mastered during their education.
grade inflation at American colleges and high schools
A cultural universal is something that:
is found in all cultures
Today in the United States the poverty rate of the elderly is ______.
lower than at any point in history
Conflict theorists see sorting as a way to ________.
perpetuate divisions of socioeconomic status
Informal education _________________.
refers to the learning of cultural norms through participating in society
_________ refers to aging that occurs due to controllable factors like exercise and diet
secondary aging
A person's physical, mental, emotional, and sexual attraction to a particular sex, male or female is known as:
sexual orientation
Many stories in the sacred text of Judaism are:
shared by Christianity and Islam
Allowing a student to move to the next grade regardless of whether or not they have met the requirements for that grade is called ____________.
social promotion
The unwritten rules of how to behave in society that we are taught in American schools is known as:
the hidden curriculum
The "graying of the United States" refers to ________.
the increasing percentage of the population over sixty-five years old
True or False. Most conservative Christian denominations believe that homosexuality is incompatible with their religion.
true
[True or False] Sociologists and teachers alike have contended that No Child Left Behind has had a negative effect on American schools, and has encouraged 'teach to the test' to insure students pass standardized tests.
true
