_____________Functions are unfamiliar, unplanned, and widely overlooked.

Latent

It is suggested that the _________ intellectual contributions of the sociologist are found primarily in the study of unintended consequences of social practices.

Distinctive

According to the Author, the manifest purpose of buying consumption goods is the

Satisfaction of the needs for which goods are explicitly designed.

Hindus venerate cows because cows are a symbol of

Everything that is alive

According to many experts. cow worship is the

cause of India's hunger and poverty

According to the author, _________ may be the reason for India's lower agricultural efficiency.

a shortage of oxen

According to George Herbert Mead, the self

develops through the language process

For Mead, the essential psychological problem of the self-hood or of self'conscious is how the individual can

get outside himself, experimentally, in such a way as to become an object himself.

According to Mead, the individual himself as such, _______ from the particular standpoints of other individual members of the same group, or from the generalized standpoint of the social group as a whole which he belongs.

indirectly

for Mead, ______ provides a form of behavior in which the organism or the individual may become an object himself

communication

The fact that an individual knows that he/she can depend only upon the other and on nobody else, gives a special consecration to

a dyad

A married couple without children is considered

a dyad

A husband, wife, and child is

a triad

No matter how close a triad may be there is always the occasion where two of the three members regard the third as

an intruder

According to Goffman, communication in the traditional sense involves expression that the individual

gives

For Goffman, the expression that an individual _____involves a wide range of action that others can treat as symptomatic of the actor, the expectation being that the action was performed for reasons other than the information conveyed in this way.

gives off

Goffman's article is primarily concerned with communication or expressions that are

given off

According to Goffman, in everyday life, there is a clear understanding that _____ are important.

first impressions

As Goffman would see it, when an instructor "lays down the law" on the first day of class, he is proceeding on the understanding that _______is/are very important.

first impressions

For Goffman, sources of information and carriers of information that are available about individuals are referred to as

"sign-vehicles"

For Charles Horton Cooley, _____are "spheres of intimate association and cooperation."

primary groups

According to Cooley, the unity of the primary group is

differentiated and unusually competitive.

Which of the following, according to Cooley, is NOT one of the most important spheres of primary group intimate association and cooperation?

the organization

According to Cooley, the general fact is that children, especially boys after about twelfth year, live in ________ where their sympathy, ambition, and honor are engaged even more often than they are in the family.

fellowships

Which social theorist argued that there were two social classes in society characterized by their relationships to the means of production?

Karl Marx

The social class that must sell their labor for a wage in order to survive is referred to as the

proletariat

the social class the owns the means to production is referred to as the

bourgeoisie

Karl Marx argued that social classes were defined by their relationship to the

means of production

The mode of production characterized by the dominance of the owners of industry over the mass of individual workers is called ____________.

capitalism

___________is the technologically advanced, classless society of the future, in which all productive property would be help in common.

Communism

What is the concept Marx used to describe the pervasive ideas that uphold the status quo and sustain the ruling class?

ideology

it was int he work _______that Marx most completely explained his beliefs on class including the idea that "(t)he history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle."

Communist Manifesto

Marx believed that a new social class had been created by the capitalist mode of production. Which of the following is that class?

the urban working class

Which of the following is one of the three broad issues in the study of social class based on Marx's and Weber's work suggested in the textbook?

Economic basis

Gilbert defines ________as "groups of families more or less equal in rank and differentiated from other families above or below them with regard to characteristics sch as occupation, income, wealth and prestige"

social classes

In the Gilbert-Kahl model of the class structure the group located directly beneath the capitalist class is the ______________

upper-middle class

According to the Gilbert-Kahl model of the class structure, what class derives its income largely from the return on assets?

capitalist class

The Gilbert-Kahl model of the class structure is built around_______.

source of income

In the Gilbert-Kahl model of class structure, which of the social classes is most likely to be university educated?

upper-middle

When did class inequalities rise steeply in the latter half of the 20th century?

mid 1970s

the years between 1946 to approximately 1973 are referred to in the Gilbert text as the ____________________.

Age of Shared prosperity

For Cooley, the "_______________ has been broken up by the growth of an intricate mesh of wider contacts which leaves us strangers to people who live in the same house."

intimacy of the neighborhood..

Primary groups are primary in the sense that they

give individuals their earliest and completest experience of social unity.

The complex system that included a group's beliefs, values, dress, and way of life is called _____________.

culture

What is culture made up of?

all of these

Which of the following is an example of non-material culture?

table manners

Material culture consists of

objects created in a given culture.

What is the relationship between biology and culture in shaping human behavior?

human biology sets limits and provides the capacities for different types of behavior.

The discussion of birthday traditions included in the text demonstrates that

even seemingly "normal" practices have cultural roots.

Norms, values, laws, and customs are all examples of

non-material culture.

The research technique in which sociologist is the researcher, but is also involved in the activities being studied is called

participant observation

When choosing a research method, the most important thing for sociologists to consider is

what type of sociological question is being investigated.

How scientific is sociology?

Sociology aspires to be both scientific and humanistic.

The scientific method was first described by

Sir Francis Bacon

Which of the following is not a step in the scientific research process?

finding funding for the research

Studies that are based on interpretive observation are called __________.

qualitative

In what ways does sociological knowledge differ from philosophy and personal belief?

In sociological study the theory must be testable.

Sociological study that starts with a specific research question focused on some generally-held principle is called

deductive reasoning

The _______________ is the overall logic of the research project, included what observational method will be used.

research design

In order to develop a research design, a sociologist must

All of these choices are true.

To study the difference in academic achievement between male and female athletes, one might look at rates of graduation among university students involved in sports. This is an example of ____research.

qualitative

Preindustrial societies are those that

work directly with the land

Which of these types of society has the greatest amount of social differentiation?

agricultural

Which of the following is not a characteristic of foraging societies?

simple technologies for harvesting food surpluses

Pastoral societies are based on the domestication of animals. In addition, they are characterized by

being nomadic

In ___________ societies, hand tools such as hoes and digging sticks are used to cultivate crops.

horticultural

The type of research that is more open to interpretation of what people do is called _______research.

qualitative

Based on what you read you think that people whose parents are divorced are more likely to become divorced themselves. As you begin your research you state your belief that if a person's parents are divorced that person is more likely to become divorced themselves. This is an example of a ___________.

hypothesis

Most sociologists would probably agree that in the nature-nurture debate,

human development is the result of the interactions of natural and social influence.

Within sociology, the process by which groups and individuals within those groups are brought into conformity with dominant social expectations is called ______.

social control

Socialization serves as a form of social control because

All of these are true

Which of the following is false in regards to socialization and conformity?

Conformity to social expectations eliminates individuality.

Which of the following is true about peers as agents of socialization?

Peer cultures for young people often take the form of cliques or friendship circles.

Religion is a powerful socialization agent. What is the impact of religion during one's childhood?

Religious education is important to the identities to the identities children construct in childhood.

Psychoanalytic theories of socialization are based on the work of Sigmund Freud, whose theoretical contribution related to socialization is

the idea that the subconscious mind shapes human behavior.

Social learning theory views identity as

the result of shaping oneself in response to the expectations of others.

Sociologists who study the large paterns of social interactions that are vast, complex, and highly differentiated are using

macro-analysis

Which of these is an example of something a sociologist would consider from the microlevel analysis of social interaction?

day to day life in a sorority house

Which of these would interest a sociologist who prefers macro-analysis of social interaction?

how laws governing family leave have affected families in the US

Sociologists use the term ________ to describe the order established in social groups at any level.

social organization

According to Peter Berger, it can be said that the first wisdom of sociology is that

things are not what they seem.

According to C. Wright Mills, __________do not possess the quality of mind to grasp the interplay of man and society, of biography and history, of self and world.

ordinary men

According to C. Wright Mills, in this course of a single generation, one-_______ of mankind is transformed from all that is feudal and backward into all that is modern and advanced.

sixth

The sociological imagination enables its professor to

understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for inner life and the external career of a variety of individuals.

According to Berger, there is a ______ motif inherent in the sociological consciousness.

debunking

______was long identified in the history of sociology for her 1853 translation and abridgment of Comte.

Martineau

______ spearheaded national and international anti-lynching campaigns and was an active organizer for African American civil rights.

Well-Barnett

______ was a leading figure in the German feminist movement.

Weber

______self-identified as a sociologist, taught sociology, and worked as a social investigator.

Webb

Poverty is a persistent problem in the US and none of its intended solutions are more controversial than

welfare.

The UofM's "Panel Study of Income Dynamics" found that in 1978, ___% of families depended on welfare for more than half of their income

3.5

Many of the thing social scientists study generate deep emotions and firm convictions in most people. This make

effective inquiry into the facts difficult.

According to feminists, _________ is a key reason why eating problems predominate among women.

the culture of thinness

According to Thomas Silber, many well trained professionals have wither misdiagnosed or delayed their diagnoses of eating problems among African Americans and Latina women due to

stereotypical thinking that eating disorders are limited to white women.

"A thing the value or meaning of which is bestowed upon it by those who use it" to defines a/an

symbol

According to Leslie White, human beings differ from the dog and all other creature because they

play an active role in determining what value vocal stimuli will have.

According to Leslie White, human social organization would be impossible without

articulate speech.

Which of the following is a symbolic behavior?

the use of amulets

_______functions are those consequences that are familiar, planned, and generally recognized.

Manifest

"Means tested" public assistance programs are

only available to people with incomes below a specific threshold.

Which of the following would be an example of anomie?

A man loses his job, his fortune, and his family during the Great Depression of the 1930s

According to Robert Merton, an innovator is an individual who has

accepted the goals of society, but pursues them with means regards as improper.

The contact hypothesis

states that interracial contact between people of equal status will cause them to become less prejudice and to abandon previous stereotypes.

Ehreneich's first low-wage job in Key West was as a:

waitress

In Robert Merton's terms, people who overzealously and cruelly enforce bureaucratic regulations can be classified as

ritualists

When viewing the global economic system, sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein draws on the

conflict perspective

A farmer is called to help sandbag a levy that is about to flood his town. the farmer is stationed between two correctional center inmates who are required to assist in the flood-control efforts. As a result of this experience, the farmer has developed a new found respect for inmates. This example would be consistent with which perspective?

interactionist perspective

What percent of the total available wealth did the richest 20 percent of people in the US own in 2002?

84.5%

Which of the following would be the best example of absolute poverty?

A homeless man in tattered clothes begs in the streets for money and food.

Which sociological perspective's approach to deviance focuses on why rule violation continues to exist in societies despite pressures to conform and obey?

functionalist perspective

Which theory was used by Edwin Sutherland to emphasize that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions with others?

cultural transmission

Amalgamation refers to the process of

combining a majority group and a minority group through intermarriage to form a new group.

Which sociologist used the term "differential association" to describe the process by which exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts leads to violation of rules?

Edwin Sutherland

In Mexico, what percent of the population has a high school education?

21 percent

Which of the following is surprising about Mexico, according to Forbes magazine?

Mexico was home to 2010's wealthiest person in he world.

Mexican schoolchildren are taught that the election of Benito Juarez in the nineteenth century proved that all Mexicans

are equal.

Du Bois poses the question, "Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?" By this, the author alludes to

the color-conscious nature of society.

Monica, a new student at Valley High school, becomes friends with a group of teenagers who use marijuana and remain seated during the singing of the National Anthem. Although Monica had never used marijuana and used to sing the Anthem, she begins to engage in the same behavior as her new friends. This is an example of

differential association.

An important tenet of labeling theory is the recognition that some individuals or groups have the power to define labels and apply them to others. This view shares the emphasis on the social significance of power as purported by the

conflict perspective

A bank president is found guilty of tax evasion. In addition to paying the government all the money he owes with substantial interest, he is sentenced to three years' probation and a $50,000 fine. At the same time, a female teller at the same bank is found guilty of stealing $500. the teller is sentenced to a prison term of no less than four years. This differential treatment would be of particular concern to sociologists using the

conflict perspective.

The Red Scare of 1919 clearly linked the anti-immigrant to the anti-_____sentiment.

working-class

The most massive affirmative action program in the US history was/is

the GI Bill of Rights.

Crime is a violation of

criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority

According to world systems analysis, a core nation is a nation that

Along with it multinational corporations controls and exploits noncore nations.

A single women who engages in illegal acts of prostitution in order to support herself and her children is

committing a victumless crime.

A women is born into a homeless, single-parent family. She is very talented and as an adult, becomes a wealthy, world-acclaimed pianist. This scenario most clearly represents which type of stratification system?

class

Karl Marx argued that social, economic, and political inequalities are dependent on

class differentiation.

According to Portes, bilingual students:

succeed academically.

In 1998, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 227, the:

The English for the Children Initiative

Capitalism is an economic system in which

the means of production are largely in private hands, and main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profit.

Karl Marx used the term "proletariat" to refer to

the working class.

The notion that peripheral nations move from having traditional or less developed institutions to those characterized of more developed nations is known as

modernization theory.

Which of the following would be an example of segregation?

confining Japanese Americans to relocation camps during WWII.

The former policy of the South African government that was designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites was known as

apartheid.

In Karl Marx's view, social relations during any period of history depends on who controls the

primary mode of economic production.

Karl Marx used the concept of class consciousness to refer to

a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and the need for collective political action to bring about social change.

The manifest purpose of buying consumption goods is the

satisfaction of the needs for which the goods are explicitly designed.

In which of the following nations is income inequality the highest?

Namibia

Which of the following statements about multinational corporations is true?

The value of sales of the largest multinational corporations exceeds the total value of goods and services of many peripheral nations.

Which of the following terms did Karl Marx use to refer to an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect the class's objective position?

false consciousness

Which sociological perspective argues that competition for scarce resources results in significant political, economic, and social inequality?

conflict perspective

Which of the following have the women volunteers in the Philippines accomplished through the establishment of the Pan-Cordillera Women's Network for Peace and Development?

all of these

What country does the text use as a case study to illustrate colonialism, neocolonialism, and the domination and exploitation of a peripheral, developing country by a core industrialized nation?

Mexico

Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf suggests that among the most powerful groups in society are

all of these

Structural or institutional discrimination

both a and c

Interracial love if often stereotyped as

all of the above

Of the following, which Latino subpopulation is the second largest

Puerto Ricans

"Mainstream organizations" tend to be

Eurocentric

Slavery in the US was one of the first....

multinational corporations

The term "social control" refers to

techniques and strategies for preventing deviant behavior in any society.

Arnold gets an "A" on organic chemistry exam because he copies most of his answers from Stanley, the "class brain" who is sitting next to him. According to Merton's anomie theory of deviance, Arnold would be classified as a(an)

innovator

Which of the following has a role in maintaining social control?

all of these

Only ______ of Americans have an income over $250,000.

2%

In 1970 one in every 10 families was female headed. Which of the following statements about today's female-headed families is correct?

One of every 5 families is female-headed.

A tax that takes higher proportions of income at lower levels is a

regressive tax

A women who was born and raised in a poor family becomes a regional supervisor for the US Postal Service. She has experienced

upward intergenerational mobility

Author Paul Collier states those countries at the bottom of the world economy are living a reality closer to the conditions of the

14th century

How many people in the world do author Paul Collier state are falling behind, falling apart, and stuck at the bottom?

1 billion

"Sanctions" are defined as

penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.

Wealth is

all of a person's material assets, including land, stocks, and other types of property.

An ascribed status is a social position

assigned to a person without regard to the person's unique characteristics or talents.

Which sociological perspective emphasizes literally could not operate if massive numbers of people defied standards of appropriate conduct?

functionalist perspective

Which of the following terms refers to going along with one's peers, with peers defined as individuals of a person's status who have no special right to direct that person's behavior?

conformity

A minority group is a group

whose members have significantly less control over their own lives than the members of the dominant group.

Which group is at the top of the color hierarchy in Mexico?

the criollos

The impoverished majority in Mexico are referred to as the

mestizos

Which of the following is not one of the forms of capital distinguished by Pierre Bourdieu?

political capital

Kohn assigned families to classes on the basis of

father's occupation

The literature on social class and patterns of association suggest that people at higher class levels __________.

none of the above are correct.

Which of the following terms is used to refer to hereditary systems of rank that are relatively fixed, immobile, and generally religiously dictated?

castes

Which of the following statements about racial groups in the US is true?

all of these

A system of stratification under peasants were required to work land leased to them by nobles in exchange for military protection was known as a(an)

estate system

About how many people are imprisoned in non-governmental, privately run prisons in the US-a significant means of formal social control?

about 182,000

A college student is caught cheating on an exam and is brought before a college-wide disciplinary committee, which decides to expel the student from the school. The committee's action is an example of

formal social control.

Ethnocentrism refers to

the tendency to assume that one's own culture and way of life are superior to all others.

The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs, prostitution, gambling, and other illegal activities is called

organized crime

According to the text, which of the following forces is in part responsible for the domination of the world marketplace by a few nations?

all of these

Which of the following statements about crime rates is in the US is correct?

all of these

What racism prevails in a society, members of a subordinate groups generally experience

all of these

Underreporting of crime in the US

has been a problem because members of racial and ethnic minority groups have not always trusted law enforcement agencies and have often refrained from contracting the police.

Which type of crime is unlikely to be reported in victimization surveys?

Fraud

Which sociologist is responsible for creating control theory?

Travis Hirschi

An ethnic group is a group

that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.

Which of the following statements is true relative to stigma and deviance in the US?

all of these

Prejudice is to discrimination as

attitude is to behavior.

Some sociologists have suggested that in the southern US in the pre-civil rights era, an African American individual was born into a status that would always be subordinate to the status of all the White members of the community. This would be an example of a(an)

class system

Which sociological perspective would most likely be concerned with the stigmatizing nature of formal social controls that require convicted sex-offenders to register with police agencies and have their picture published in newspapers to make their identities publicly known?

interactionist perspective

Which of the following is not one of the types of marital relationships distinguished by Rainwater?

progressive relationships

The class advantages or disadvantages that a child inherits are not just economic but also _______.

a and b

The kind of research Lareau used was ______, which is rare because it is expensive and time-consuming.

naturalistic observation

At one time, amny Puerto Ricans were effectively barred from serving in the Chicago Police Department because they failed to meet the height requirement. This is an example of

institutional discrimination

Which term is used in the sociological literature to describe a loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective?

anomie

Which term is used by Karl Marx to refer to the capitalist class that owns the means of production?

bourgeoisie

In Immanuel Wallerstein's view, the global economic system is divided between nations that control wealth and nations from which resources are taken. This view is called

world systems analysis

Exploitation theory is a

Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the US as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.

Which of the following is a core nation?

Germany

According to Rosenhan, which of the following patient characteristics was NOT found to be evident in the mental hospitals under investigation?

treated with extreme human dignity

In Karl Marx's view of class conscious workers in revolt, who will guide the working class in its struggle?

revolutionary leaders

According to the author, from 60 to ___% of those in prostitution were sexually assaulted in childhood.

90

_______law specifically prohibits inducement into prostitution by sexual abuse, pornography, or by exploiting the need for food, shelter, safety, or affection.

Florida

Many psychiatrists believe that the preference for sexual partners of a particular sex is merely a secondary manifestation of something that lies much deeper in the individual. They refer to this as "the ________ personality."

homosexual

It is commonly believed that homosexual males are

rarely robust physically .

Very little is known about homosexual behavior in the rest of the world. This lack of knowledge stems from

the irrational fear anf prejudice surrounding the study of human sexual behavior.

According to Monroe et al. 1969, a number of societies have what they call

institutionalized male transvestitism

In _______, the Zpotec Indians believe that "effeminate males" are born not made.

Southern Mexico

According to the author, ________starts with assignment to a sex category on the basis of what the genitalia looks like at birth.

gender construction

In the lecture, the 'Achievement Gap' differentiate between two similar States revealed that:

Texas had better educational outcomes than California.

Linguist Marjorie Swacker recorded question-and-answer sessions at academic conferences. Women were highly visible as speakers at the conferences studied, but it came to volunteering and being called on to ask questions, women contributed

only 27.4%

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of

rapport

From childhood, men learn to use talking as a way to get and keep

attention

For males, talk

is for information

For women, talk

is for interaction.

Institutions such as prostitution and slavery, which have existed for thousands of years, are so deeply embedded in cultures that they have become

invisible.

In 1988, ______ described prostitution as "dynamic and adaptive sex work, involving a transaction between seller and buyer of a sexual service."

the World Health Organization

According to the author, there have been huge growth in ________ in the US: strip clubs, nude dancing, escort services, tanning salons, massage parlors, phone ans computer sex.

illegitimate pimping

According to researcher Debra Boyer, most prostitutes began prostituting between ages of

12 and 14

The building blocks of gender are

socially constructed statuses.

Some societies have three genders- men, women, and

berdaches

At ______, sex characteristics become evident, and most societies put children through their most important rites of passage.

puberty

Through naming, birth announcements, and dress, parents create

a gendered world for their newborn.

_____refers to a form of subtle sex discrimination where women receive mixed messages about their abilities, intelligence, and accomplishments.

Supportive discouragement

______refers to a sexually oriented behavior that, at face value, looks harmless or even playful.

Friendly harassment

Bernard points out that in the area of sexual relations, Kinsey and his associates found different responses in from one-to two-thirds of the couples they studied. Kinsey interpreted these difference in terms of

selective perception.

In a study of happily married, middle-class couples, __________ concluded that projection in terms of everyday needs was distorting even simple, everyday events, and lack of communication was permitting the distortions to continue.

Harold Feldman

In a laboratory-based study of married couples conducted by David Olson, a most interesting finding was that husbands perceived themselves as

having more power than they actually did have in the laboratory "reality."

According to Bernard, there is a/an _______ in marriage, that resides in the cultural prescriptions, proscriptions, and expectations that constitute marriage.

objective reality

The Racial-Ethnic 'Achievement Gap' in education refers to:

Difference between blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans and whites in achievement.

The ______ of Puritanism differs only in degree, not in fundamental principle, from that of monasticism; and on account of the Puritan conception of marriage, its practical influence is more far-reaching than that of the latter.

sexual asceticism

According to Weber, ________ is bad ethically only in so far as it is a temptation to idleness and sinful enjoyment of life, and its acquisition is bad only when it is with the purpose of later living merrily and without care.

wealth

Worldly Protestant, _______ acted powerfully against the spontaneous enjoyment of possessions; it restricted consumption, especially of luxuries.

asceticism

According to Steve Baker, the director of BYU's honor code office, _____% of students are ever brought to see him.

fewer than 1

At Notre Dame, _____% of the university's student body lives on campus and there is general agreement about the positive effects of single-sex dorms.

85

At Baylor, ______involves a willingness on part of the administration to adopt behavioral standards.

formation

______requires students to get their parents' permission before pursuing a romantic relationship.

Patrick Henry College

According to Smith, any attempt to talk about women in Islam involves venturing into an area characterized by

over-generalization.

According to Smith, the Holy Koran

forms the basis of prevailing family law in most areas of the Muslims world.

In her article, Smith points out that

according to the Holy Koran, a man may take up to four wives.

According to Smith's discussion of traditions int he Muslim world

in contemporary Islamic world, divorce rates vary considerably from one country to the next.

According to the Holy Koran

the wives of the Prophet Muhammad should, for the sake of property, speak to other men only from behind a partition.

According to Smith's discussion of life within the Islamic world

until fairly recently, education for women has been minimal.

Following the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, thousands of Irish workers settled in the cities and towns of the northeastern US, and _______ was seen as a means of integrating this "uncouth and dangerous" element into the social fabric of American life.

schooling

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the dual objectivies of educational reformers-_______ and ________ -have been intermingled; sometimes so completely that its impossible to distinguish between the two.

equality of opportunity/social control

According to Bowles and Gintis, early educational reformers believed that education was to help preserve and extend

the capitalist order.

Denial of "______" is perhaps the single most consistent outcome of the education offered to poor children in the schools of our large cities.

the means of competition.

The video, 'Inside the teenage Brain' made the point that:

teenagers are natural 'thrill seekers'

According to the author, Public School 261 in District 10 has the capacity for 900 students, but there were _____students enrolled.

1300

According to the principle of Public School 261, there are _____ computers for its 1300 students.

26

At Public School 24, students labeled "talented" or "gifted"

are placed in the "pull out" program.

According to the principal of Public School 24, the reason for the 130 children in "special classes" can be traced to

neurological damage

Frequently genital mutilation is performed by

an old women of the village.

_______is reported to affect nearly all the female population of Somalia.

Infibulation

During the 1980s, women in ______ were shocked by accounts of mutilations being performed in local hospitals on daughter of immigrants.

Sweden

What is the name of the Federal policy that mandates gender equity in education in federally funded schools?

title IX

what risk found by researchers among female athletes who are "highly involved" in sports?

all of these

A small body of scholarship suggests that traditional gender roles may be disadvantageous to men in that

all of these

When ted consoles his sister about a difficult romantic breakup, works a day shift as a construction worker, and sings nursery rhymes to his young daughter so that she may fall asleep, he is portraying

multiple masculinities

Which sociologist discussed the concept and coined the term "multiple masculinities?"

R.W. Connell

The belief that men play a variety of gender roles, including a nurturing-caring role and an effeminate-gay role, in addition to their traditional role of dominating women, is called

multiple masculinities

Which sociologist argued that to function most effectively, the family requires adults who specialize in particular roles?

both Robert Bales and Talcott Parsons

Which of the following studied the minangkabau society in Indonesia, learning that men and women acted not as competitors but partners for the common good?

Peggy Reeves Sanday

Which of the folloring terms is used by Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales to refer to an emphasis on tasks, a focus on more distant goals, and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions?

instrumentality

Which of the following terms by Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales to refer to concern for the maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family?

expressiveness

According to Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales, the expressive role is performed by

women

Although it does not explicitly endorse traditional gender roles, which sociological perspective implies that dividing between spouses is beneficial for the family unit?

functionalist perspective

Which perspective suggests that men may originally have become powerful in preindustrial times because their size, physical strength, and freedom from childbearing duties allowed them to dominate women physically, but in contemporary societies such considerations are not so important?

conflict perspective

Conflict theorists would view gender differences as

a religion of the subjugation of one group, such as women, by another group, such as men.

Using an analogy to Marx's analysis of class conflict, conflict theorists would argue that women are in a position comparable to that of the

proletariat

Which of the following publications was not one of the earlier important works to critique women's position in society and culture?

the Social System

Which of the following statements about feminist movement is true?

Among the most important early critiques of women's position in society and culture was John Stuart Mill's feminist theory based on the interactionist perspective

Some radical feminist theorists view the oppression of women in male-dominated societies as

inevitable

Which sociological perspective has influenced the creation of the feminist perspective the most?

conflict perspective

In 2009, what percentage of children in their twenties lived with their parents?

33% OF MEN AND 22% of women

In 2009, what percentage of all children in the US lived in a household with a grandparent?

9%

The process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights, responsibilities, and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents is referred to as

adoption

Which of the following percentages reflects the number of married women in the US who are in the labor force?

69%

Which of the following factors has contributed to the rise of dual-income families in the US?

all of these

After his divorce from Wanda, Willy has custody of his two young children. Fortunately, his job allows him to work from home on his computer, and he is able to earn a living to support his family and to spend as much time as necessary supervising and caring for his children. This is an example of a(an)

single-parent family.

which of the following statements concerning step families is correct?

Children raised by stepmothers are likely to have less health care, education, and money spent on their food than children raised by their biological mothers.

About what percentage of divorcees in the US have remarried?

63%

The increasing divorce rate in the US is attributable to

all of these

Steve and Mary are married and then get a divorce. Steve then marries Rachel, anf they get a divorce too. Steve remarries Mary and lives with her until she dies. After Mary's death, Steve marries Beth and lives with her until his death. Steve's life would be an example of

serial monogamy

what is the general term for a marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives at the same time?

polygamy

Which of the following statements about polygamy is correct?

In some forms of polygamy, men often marry women and her sisters.

Which pattern of descent is most typical in the US?

bilateral

Patrilineal descent refers to a

kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.

Males are expected to dominate family decision making in a(an)

patriarchy

A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother is based on

matrilineal descent

a matriarchy is a society in which

women hold greater authority than men.

Secularization is the

process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.

The US government maintains a policy of "separation of church and state." The relationship between the church and the government in the US illustrates

secularization

Which sociologist was perhaps the first sociologist to recognize the critical importance of religion in human societies?

Emile Durkheim

According to your text, a table, an incense stick, and candelabra can all be considered

both sacred and profane items

Which is the single largest faith in the world?

Christianity

For Muslims, which of the following do they consider to be prophets?

all of these

In which way does Hinduism differ from other religions?

all of these

Which of the following attributes is true regarding Buddhism?

it emerged in India

When did the religion known as Buddhism first develop?

6th century B.C.