Web Assignments

In 2012, the property crime rate was ____ per 1,000 households.

155.8

The household consist of Mary, aged 58, and her 14-year old granddaughter, Denise: $ ______

16,337

The household consists of you (a legal adult) and your two parents: $_____

18,540

Currently, _____ of the 100-member US Senate are women.

21%

In 2012, the violent crime rate was ____ per 1,000 persons.

26.1

The household consists of you, your spouse, and your 3 children: John, age 19; Charise, age 15; and Tina, age 9: $ ______

28,995

How many women are currently in Ohio's Congressional delegation?

3

How many women have ever served on the Supreme Court?

4

Dr Gardner says she sees about _____ textwalking injuries per year.

50

In 2012, guns were involved in ____ of all violent incidents.

6.6%

Between 1934 and 1962, the government spent $120 billion subsidizing new housing. What percent of this money was spent on subsidizing home ownership for whites?

>98%

According to the BJS report, rate(s) for which type of crime showed an increase compared to 2011?

ALL of the above

Read this piece on the Amish and cellphones. [clicking on the link will open the article in a new window] Why is cellphone use controversial among the Amish?

Because of the uncertainty of how cellphone use might disrupt traditional family relationships and the unease this creates.

A local grocery store routinely offers 10-for-$10 sales (in which products are marked down to $1 each). This is an example of which feature of McDonaldization?

Calculability

________________ would focus on the inequalities created by the exploitation of immigrant labor by the capitalists.

Conflict/power theorists

Lisa is hired to be a telemarketer by a local firm. On her first day at work, she is taken to her work station, a desk with a computer screen. Her supervisor explains that she is to click a button, and the computer will dial the next number on her list of consumers. When the phone is answered, she is instructed to merely read the words on the screen, and not to deviate or improvise from the script. In this instance, which feature of McDonaldization does this represent?

Control

Gabrielle drives 125 mph in a 25 mph zone in order to make it home in time to mow the lawn before her husband finds out the gardener didn't finish his work that day because they are having an affair. She is stopped by a police officer on the way and is charged with Reckless Operation of a Motor Vehicle and Driving without a License. What type of deviance did she engage in? (Choose 3 answers from the list below)

Dramatic, High-Consequence, Voluntary

JiffyLube promises a complete oil change for your vehicle in 10 minutes. This is an example of which feature of McDonaldization?

Efficiency

According to a study of academic research, the greater availability of texts and academic sources on the net is leading to a wider variety of sources being consulted and cited in research. True or false?

False

Based on NCVS data, in 2012 about three-quarters of all serious violent crimes involving firearms were reported to police. True or false?

False

Those with similarly high incomes tend to have similar levels of wealth. True or false?

False

While hunting & gathering, and agriculture both produced substantial amounts of food which could be stored, societies based on agriculture could produce a lot more of it than hunting-gathering societies.

False

________________ would likely focus on how immigrants help the economy to function, how they perform tasks that others are unwilling to perform and thus help to fill necessary roles in the economy.

Functionalists

Name the 2 states which have never elected a woman to serve in Congress (neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives).

Mississippi, Vermont

Jill is visiting her cousin for 2 weeks, who lives in a suburb of Chicago. While there, her asthma acts up, and she has left her inhaler back home in Columbus. Her cousin suggests she call her doctor and have him phone in a prescription to the CVS pharmacy which is 2 blocks from the cousin's home. Jill does so, and the next day goes to CVS. While she's never been in this particular CVS, she enters and walks directly to the back of the store, to the pharmacy counter. Which feature of McDonaldization does this exemplify?

Predictability

Read the 2 pieces on drunken comportment, Drunken Comportment and Alcohol and Bad Behavior. (Clicking on the links will open them in a new window) With regard to the effects of alcohol on human behavior, what conclusion can be drawn?

That the specific kinds of behavior drunks engage in depends largely on the cultural norms of the society where the drinking takes place.

n 2012, which region of the country had the highest rates of both violent and property crimes?

West

With regard to women atheletes, the media:

are more likely to show them in street clothes engaged in everyday activities.

In recent years, immigration (both legal and illegal) has been an issue of controversy in this country (and many others). Sociologists holding different theoretical perspectives would focus on or raise different kinds of questions about immigration. For instance, a ________________ would likely question how immigrants are used by those with the most power -- the capitalists -- to further their own interests.

conflict/power theorist

Performing library searches that lead us to read lots of different sources (some of which may only be tangentially related to our topic), then reflecting on what we've read, and coming up with new connections and deeper insight:

describes the process known as 'marinating'

A ________________ might question how immigration to this country might alter the traditional, more patriarchal structures and cultural attitudes immigrants bring with them.

feminist

A sociologist who holds the _____________ perspective would be interested in the problems faced in integrating immigrants into US society culturally and socially.

functionalist

Media depictions of women athletes tend to emphasize their:

heterosexuality.

According to the podcast and article, the way we think:

is learned, therefore can be changed

The internet, it is argued, is:

making it harder for us to concentrate when reading longer texts.

In 2012, which type of crime was most likely to be reported to the police?

motor vehicle theft

Hunting:

requires strength, special skills and encyclopedic knowledge of often hundreds of species.

If you're a _____________ you might be interested in understanding what moving to the US means for the immigrants, and how they see the U.S. and their place in it.

symbolic interactionist

The Car and Driver study referred to in the article found that:

the 22-year old driver traveled twice as far before hitting the breaks when reading a text while driving 70 mph than he did while driving intoxicated at that speed.

Sociologists would say that what happened in this video is an example of:

the Bystander Effect

Read the photo essay on baseball herePreview the documentView in a new window (make sure to read the photo captions too!). Which of the following would a macro-level analysis of baseball most likely focus on?

the increased commercialization of the game, such as corporate naming rights for ballparks or how media (and advertiser money) have affected the decisions made by the game's governing bodies.

When whites moved from cities to suburbs, this "white flight" was the result of:

the perceived decline of the neighborhood when black families moved in, and the fear of falling property values.

Peoples in the Middle East, China, and other places around the world were more successful with agriculture than those in Papus-New Guinea because:

there were wild grasses in the Middle East like wheat and barley which could be domesticated and grown, were storeable and provided a lot of protein, while no such grasses existed in Papua-New Guinea, wehere tarot root was the main crop.

The basic question Jared Diamond seeks to answer in this video, is:

to discover the roots of inequality: why are the people of, say, Papua-New Guinea so much poorer than people in the U.S.?

Scholars who examined the computer logs of some popular research sites found that:

users rarely spend much time on any given article, instead skimming and bouncing from one to another.

After WWII, African-Americans and Latinos:

were primarily restricted to the rental and public housing market.