Exam2

Front 1

Behavior that disqualifies members of one group from opportunities available to others is:

Back 1

new racism of
cultural racism

Front 2

Forbidding marriage or sex outside one's assigned group is used to maintain a ______system

Back 2

caste

Front 3

Max Weber used the concept of ________ to analyze the meaning of social class

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Life Changes

Front 4

How far an individual moves up and down the socioeconomic scale in her lifetime is called

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social mobility

Front 5

Studies of social mobility for Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan's in the 1960s to Pierre Bourdieu's in the 1980's have shown that

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While there was a great deal of virtical mobility, or movement along the socieconomic scale, nearly all of it was between occupational positions clost to one another. Long range mobility from working class to upper class was rear

Front 6

When one is poor compared to the standards of living of most people, she experiences:

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lacks the basic sources needed to maintain a decent standard of housing and healthier living conditions

Front 7

In Karl Marx's theory, a class is made up of people who have the same relationship to the

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means of production: the means in which they gain a livilihood

Front 8

Most famine and hunger ins the world today are the outcome of

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a Combination of national and social forces. The combination of drought and internal warfare has wrecked food production

Front 9

Rapid economic growth in East Aisa in the 1980s and 1990s was accompanied by

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helped to pave the way for economic growth
United States provided a big market for clothing. Benefited from a long period of economic growth
Some, due to their cultural traditions. Shared confucian philosophy
Many asian goverments followed strong policies that favored economic growth

Front 10

Sweatshops are:

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low wage, low factory, a small factory that has numerous violations of wage, health and safety laws

Front 11

Which theory promotes the adoption of Western capitalist economic systems and values as the road to economic development

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market-oriented theories

Front 12

The ______ are regions of the world that apply technology invented elsewhere in their own production and consumption systems.

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Technology Adopters

Front 13

In what way's could you personally help reduce the amount of exploitive and dangerous child labor in the world today?

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stop purchaching items where there are made

Front 14

Which gender is the dominate and aggressive one among !Kung of the Kalahari Desert?

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agressive behavior isn't tolerated

Front 15

______ refers to any difference in status, power, and prestige between men and women in groups, collectives, and societies

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gender inequality

Front 16

Which of the following has been offered as a sociological explanation for the gap between women's and men's work in the home?

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Household work is exchanged for economic support
women's jobs bind them to a fixed time men's household tasks are done less regularly and more discretionary
family incorporates a strong and relatively enduring association of caring activity
men are expected to be providers women expected to tend to their families

Front 17

_____is the systematic domination of females by males

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Patriarchy

Front 18

____means that women and men are concentrated in different occupations

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sex segregation

Front 19

What agency has helped develop ties among women's movements in countries around the world?

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Modern women's movement

Front 20

Overall, sociologists conclude that

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no society can truly hope to better the lives if of its citizens until it fosters gender equality

Front 21

When people adope an identify in some contexts but not in others they are practicing

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Symbolic ethnicity

Front 22

Behavior that disqualifies members of one group from opportunities availabel to others

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look up

Front 23

Racism that is not simply the opinions of a small segment of the population, but systematically pervades all of a society's structures and operations, is known as

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institutional racism

Front 24

Suspicion of outsiders and a tendency to judge other cultures in terms of one's own cultural standards is called

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look up

Front 25

In several parts of the former Yugoslavia, certain ethnic groups were subjected to harassment, threats, and campaigns of terror in order to forcibly expel them and create ethnically homogeneous regions. This practice is known as:

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ethnic cleansing

Front 26

When a group takes over the attitudes and language of the dominate community they have engaged in

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assimilation

Front 27

Global migratory paterns are a result of the combination of _______, the movement of people into a country to settle, and _____, the process by which people leave a country to settle in another

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immigration
emigration

Front 28

More than 99 percent of the people in the United states are decended from

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look up

Front 29

average life expectancy in the world today is:

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65

Front 30

Which of the following is the sociological definition of aging?

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Biological: Physical body
Phychological: mind & mental capabilities
social one: cultural normes role expection