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The _____ enables us to understand the larger and historical picture and its meaning in our own lives.
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sociological imagination
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The ability to see the impact of these forces on our private lives is what the famous sociologist ____ called the sociological imagination.
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C. Wright Mills
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when you learn how to network and form loose associations by being involved with sports, clubs, etc, this is known as _____
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social capital
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T/F Working class kids tend to hear fewer words throughout the day and less complex words.
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true
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T/F whats right for male and female does not change over time
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FALSE
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_____ and _____ are more conventional when it comes to gender roles.
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Lower working class, Old money
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____ and ____ are most egalitarian when it comes to gender roles because of education.
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lower middle, upper middle
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____ tend to be most egalitarian when it comes to fair practices bc ____ women have longer and stronger history in the participation of labor.
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Black American families, black
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____ tend to express more politically correct attitudes, but in practice tend to be more conventional.
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Whites
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_____ theorists draw attention to inequality. Have us ask questions about rules. They say not so fast. Who made rules? Who benefits from this?
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Conflict theorists
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_____ consider society as a game and every game has rules. The objective is to win by beating other people. If you make rules, you will make rules to benefit you. ____ say rules are about this, made by people of power.
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Conflict theorists
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T/F Prescription drugs are abused more regularly than street drugs.
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TRUE
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_____ is a micro level perspective. They ask how is it that definitions get transmitted and sustained over time?
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Interactionist perspectives
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T/F Just like conformity, noncomformity is something that is learned.
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TRUE
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T/F Becker explores how one comes to use marijuana for pleasure, not how someone comes to permit smoking it. He is also not exploring why an individual is smoking out of peer pressure.
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TRUE
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Step 1 in Becker's assessment of learning how to smoke for pleasure
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Learn how to get drug into system to produce real effects. By watching, social learning. We learn to identify with other pot smokers.
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Step 2 in Becker's assesment
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2. Learn to identify the effects of marijuana. Hunger, sleepiness, time slows down, lethargy, paranoia, nausea. He or she may not automaticaly associate these with the drugs, this has to be taught.
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Step 3 in Becker's assessment
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Learn to identify effects as pleasure. If you cannot, you will not smoke for pleasure.
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______ the vertical arrangement of groups within a society based on some characteristic.
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Stratification
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T/F stratification is universal.
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TRUE
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T/F Life chances are based off social class
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true
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In an ____ system of stratification, movement is possible.
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open
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_____ is a closed system of stratification. Essentially a very elaborate division of labor. Oldest and exquisitely complex way of dividing labor.
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Caste System
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____ is the oldest example of the caste system.
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India
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The Caste System is an _____ status.
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Ascribed
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Out of all the class systems in the world, _____ has the greatest opportunity for advancement.
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US
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T/F Children are the most represented group in poverty
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TRUE
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_____ occurs when you can get what you need but not necessarily what you want.
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Relative poverty
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Name 4 characteristics of Family
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1) Regulation of sexual activity
2) Reduces conflict and competition 3) Everyone knows what they are supposed to do. 4) They offer security, support, and protection |
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_____ occurs when a woman has multiple husbands.
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Polyandry
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Most likely, you will marry someone with a similar ___ ____ background as you.
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socio-economic
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what are the 3 rules for social deviance?
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Expectation, Violation, Response
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During an exam, someone didn't do their own work and cheated but no one noticed, is this social deviance?
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NO bc no one witnessed it.
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You are glancing around the room but not actually cheating. The teacher thinks you are. Is this social deviance?
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Yes. You don't actually have to violate the rule.
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____ sees society in terms of harmony. Believes social rules are in place bc most of us agree on what rules should be. They also believe that when deviance occurs it in itself helps society and serves a social function.
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Structural Functionalist
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Out of all the class systems in the world, _____ has the greatest opportunity for advancement.
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US
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T/F Children are the most represented group in poverty
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TRUE
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_____ occurs when you can get what you need but not necessarily what you want.
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Relative poverty
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Name 4 characteristics of Family
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1) Regulation of sexual activity
2) Reduces conflict and competition 3) Everyone knows what they are supposed to do. 4) They offer security, support, and protection |
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_____ occurs when a woman has multiple husbands.
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Polyandry
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Most likely, you will marry someone with a similar ___ ____ background as you.
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socio-economic
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what are the 3 rules for social deviance?
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Expectation, Violation, Response
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During an exam, someone didn't do their own work and cheated but no one noticed, is this social deviance?
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NO bc no one witnessed it.
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You are glancing around the room but not actually cheating. The teacher thinks you are. Is this social deviance?
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Yes. You don't actually have to violate the rule.
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____ sees society in terms of harmony. Believes social rules are in place bc most of us agree on what rules should be. They also believe that when deviance occurs it in itself helps society and serves a social function.
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Structural Functionalist
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_____ is movement across generations. (more common)
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Intergenerational
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_____ is movement within one generation
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Intragenerational
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Positions at top require investments of time, money, years in education therefore they should have higher rewards to encourage the best people. This functions to help society.
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Davis-Moore Thesis
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_____ desire to dissappear into the story of the movie, play or video games for hours. Keeps people pacified.
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Escapists
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_____ believed under capitalism, where people are working for someone rather than themselves and just doing what their told, they become alienated from themselves, each other, and from their labor.
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Marx
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_____ occurs when you don't have enough resources to meet basic needs. No one can deny this.
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Absolute poverty
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_____ elites have been affluent and wealthy for multiple generations. They are folks who have inherited their money from people who have inherited their money and so on.
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Old Money
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____ elites have earned it themselves. Inventors, founders, entrepreneurs.
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New Money
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____ money is usually more educated than ___ money.
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New money, old money
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What does WASP stand for?
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White anglo saxon protestants
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____ money has more political strength.
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Old
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____ money are more socially conservative. They don't want to lose what they have earned. They are also more economically conservative.
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New Money
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____ money is less economically conservative because their money has always been there and they were born into it.
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Old
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T/F New money tends to value things that are new and old money tends to have more antique items associated with fine class.
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TRUE
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_____ are most likely to buy name brand items.
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New money
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Knowing which fork to use, how to dress for opera, etc, are
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Cultural capital
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____ said mannerisms come from their distance from necessity.
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Bordieu
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____ has the highest levels of cultural capital.
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Old money
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T/F Old money is most likely to order what food they want and drive old ass cars because they JUST CAN.
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Old money
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T/F New money often sends its children to finishing schools.
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TRUE AS FUCK
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____ money has more political strength.
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Old
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____ money are more socially conservative. They don't want to lose what they have earned. They are also more economically conservative.
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New Money
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____ money is less economically conservative because their money has always been there and they were born into it.
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Old
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T/F New money tends to value things that are new and old money tends to have more antique items associated with fine class.
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TRUE
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_____ are most likely to buy name brand items.
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New money
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Knowing which fork to use, how to dress for opera, etc, are
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Cultural capital
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____ said mannerisms come from their distance from necessity.
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Bordieu
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____ has the highest levels of cultural capital.
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Old money
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T/F Old money is most likely to order what food they want and drive old ass cars because they JUST CAN.
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Old money
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T/F New money often sends its children to finishing schools.
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TRUE AS FUCK
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___ is what Bordieu referred to as habits of being. The sediment of early socialization. Formed early in life during childhood years, learned through socialization. It is in how you carry yourself, food preferences, what you find appealing, what words you use, and what you find funny.
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Habitus
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____ boils down to an interest is one's own culture and they belief that one's own culture is the right way of doing things and the best way.
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Ethnocentrism
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_____ is looking at each culture in its own purpose. Saying that each society has its own way of doing stuff and no single way is better than another.
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Cultural relativism
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____ is the most common second language in the world.
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English
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____ was the father of symbolic interaction.
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Richard Mead
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____ had the idea of the "looking glass self"
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Cooley
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____ had the dramaturgical perspective.
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Irving Goffman
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T/F In order to have a 'self' you have to be able to reflect on yourself.
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TRUE
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____ had the psycho-sexual theory.
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Freud
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___ is made up of biological drives. We are born with it. The __ only wants to feel good. It becomes less obvious as ego and superego develop.
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Id
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____ develops when a child comes to understand that he or she cannot always have what they want. We learn that there are limits.
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Ego
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____ is the moral/ethical version of yourself. Kind of like your conscious. Always wants to do whats right in the eyes of the society and culture to which you belong.
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Superego
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_____ are the positions that individuals within the society occupy.
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statuses
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_____ is a social position we acquire at birth. Such as race, sex, ethnicity.
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Ascribed status
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____ a social postion we take on voluntarily or acquire through our own efforts.
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Achieved status
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According the Mather, members of the Millennium Generation are more ethnically diverse than previous generations and ___ is not white.
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1 in 3
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More individuals from the T/F Millennium Generation have experienced the divorce of their parents than any other previous generation.
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False
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The Earth's human population is expected to exceed _____ by 2050.
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9 billion
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What are men able to influence in a patriarchy?
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politics, personal decisions of others, economics
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For every dollar a U.S man earns, a woman earns about __ cents.
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78
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Men have made significant increases in their representation in female dominated occupations. T/F
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FALSE
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Prejudice and discrimination based on skin color that occurs within a particular ethoracial group is known as _____.
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colorism
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_____ are often perceived as "model minorities."
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Asians
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T/F Discriminatory treatment and the unequal social and political status of some racial groups is more of a function of social class than race.
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True
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Which famous 19th century sociologist was vitally interested in understanding the complexities of modern society?
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Max Weber
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The official poverty line for a family of four in 2008 was ___
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about 20,000
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The _____ model can be applied to any situation in which indispensable but finite resources are available for everyone
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tragedy of the commons
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Which sociologist researched the personal lives of rising young executives trying to succeed in the corporate world over 50 years ago?
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Whyte
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The experience of each person in a group pursuing his or her self-interest to the point of ruin for everyone is knows as collective psychosis. T/F
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False
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An _____ is a system in which many people are ruled by a privileged few.
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Oligarchy
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T/F A recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center revealed that a majority of U.S. citizens favor the death penalty
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False
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T/F 15 states that have adopted "stand your ground" laws that allow victims to use deadly force in non-life threatening situations
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TRUE
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Sociologist _____'s ______ argues that the probability of committing deviant acts increases when people experience a strain or contradiction between these culturally defined success goals and access to legitimate means by which to achieve them.
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Robert Merton; strain theory
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T/F Until now, there has never been a time in US history that less than half of adult women were living with a spouse.
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TRUE
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The sociologist most responsible for the scholarly examination of impression management is ____.
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Erving Goffman
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______ defines performance team to describe those individuals who intimately cooperate in staging a performance that leads an audience to form an impression of one or all of the team members
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Erving Goffman
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Which sociologist is affiliated with the looking-glass self?
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Charles Cooley
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When two variables may not be related at all, but seem associated with one another due to the effect of a third variable this is known as a ____ relationship.
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spurious
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Research methods that require the researcher to have contact with the people being studied may influence the phenomena being studied. This is called ____.
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reactivity
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____ are the pair of sociologists related to the social construction of reality.
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Berger and Luckmann
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_____ is one of the two theorists typically associated with the structural-functionalist perspective.
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Talcott Parsons
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____ set up a shock generator experiement bc he wanted to know how far people would go in obeying the commands of an authority figure.
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Stanley Milgram
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_____ identified suicide as a manifestation of changes in society rather than of psychological shortcomings.
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Emile Durkheim
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Racism can be expressed at the ______ level in the everyday working of social institutions.
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macrostructural
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_____ racism is of ten expressed by people who consider themselves unbiased and nonprejudiced.
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Quiet
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From a _______ perspective, the ideology of racism that exists in our language and in our prevailing cultural beliefs contributes to racial and ethnic inequality.
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Conflict
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From a ______ perspective, beliefs about racial inferiority provide advantages for the dominant groups. These beliefs discourage subordinate groups from questioning their disadvantaged status.
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Conflict
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Because it is a built-in feature of social arrangements, _____ racism is often much more difficult to detect than acts of personal racism.
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institutional
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study on african americans with syphilis that was very controversial.
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Tuskegee Syphilis study
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According to the ______ perspective, stratification along sex and gender lines has long distorted our understanding of rape.
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conflict
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The specialization of roles is the most effective way to maintain societal stability, _______ believe.
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Structural-functionalists
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From a _____ perspective, one could argue that traditional gendered household responsibilities actually reflect an equitable, functional, interdependent division of labor.
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structural-functionalist
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