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50 Cards in this Set
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Q: The process through which people learn the expectations of society is called what?
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A: Socialization
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Q: Who coined the term sociology and first elaborated the positivist basis of sociology?
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A: Compte
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Q: This is the tendency for triads to segregate into a pair and an isolate.
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A: Triadic Segregation
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Q: Which state’s Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that same sex marriages are constitutional?
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A: Massachusetts
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Q: This person was a leader in the settlement house movement and a close friend and collaborator of W.E.B Dubois.
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A: Jane Adams
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Q: Through the operation of this the expectations that a teacher has for a student can actually create the behavior in question.
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A: Expectancy Effect
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Q: Racism that is subtle, covert, and non-obvious is also called what?
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A: Aversive Racism
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Q: The National Violence Against Women office has estimated that what percentage of women will be physically assaulted, raped, or stalked by a intimate partner in their lifetime?
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A: 25%
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Q: George Ritzer referred to the impact of the problems and peculiarities of bureaucracy on society as what?
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A: The McDonaldization of society
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Q: Hinduism is a contemporary example of what?
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A: Polytheism
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Q: Which theory argues that race and ethnicity are socially constructed categories?
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A: Symbolic Interaction Theory
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Q: Meaningful behavior between two or more people is referred to as what?
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A: Social Interaction
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Q: Which of the following is not a function of social institutions?
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A: Creating equal opportunity for all regardless of social class
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Q: The first step in sociological research is to do what?
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A: Develop a research question
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Q: The theory that language determines other aspects of culture since language shapes the way people perceive the world is called what?
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A: The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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Q: Christianity is an example of what type of religion?
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A: Monotheism
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Q: AIDs first appeared when?
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A: The early 1980s
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Q: Sociologists refer to the alteration of society over time as what?
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A: Social Change
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Q: The complex system that includes a group of beliefs, values, dress, and way of life is called what?
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A: Culture
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Q: The institutionalization of heterosexuality as the only socially legitimate sexual orientation is called what?
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A: Heterosexism
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Q: Consumption for the sake of displaying one’s wealth is called what?
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A: Conspicuous Consumption
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Q: A group consisting of intimate face to face interaction and relatively long lasting relationships is called what?
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A: A primary group
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Q: According to this theory multiple forms of sexual identity are possible and can be seen in how people cross the ordinarily assumed boundaries.
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A: Queer theory
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Q: A tendency for group members to reach a consensus decision even if that decision is downright stupid is called what?
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A: Groupthink
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Q: When the roles in one’s role set clash with one another, the result is called what?
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A: Role conflict
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Q: A salient characteristic that serves as a basis for stereotyping in the U.S.
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A: Skin Color
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Q: What is the theory that argues that gender differences in earnings exists because men and women tend to work in different segments of the labor market?
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A: The dual-labor market theory
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Q: While small numbers of minorities and women do get promoted in organizations, women in minorities are only promoted up to a point. This phenomenon is referred to as what?
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A: The glass ceiling effect
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Q: Studies of anorexia nervosa indicate what?
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A: This is a disorder characterized by compulsive dieting
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Q: What percentage of Americans has no health insurance at all?
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A: 14.5%
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Q: What percentage of the American public believe that gay marriage should be recognized as valid and be given the same rights as heterosexual couples?
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A: 39%
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Q: Conflict theory emphasizes what?
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A: A person or groups ability to exercise influence or control over others
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Q: What percentage of the public thinks that gays or lesbians should have equal rights in terms of job opportunities?
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A: 89%
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Q: What U.S. Supreme Court case ruled that gays and lesbians cannot be denied equal protection of the law?
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A: Romer v. Evans
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Q: Research indicates that as agents of socialization, sports do what?
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A: They are where many ideas about gender differences are formed and reinforced
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Q: This has radically altered the opportunities available to women athletes and laid the foundation for many of the coeducational programs that are now an ordinary part of college life.
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A: Title IX
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Q: With the different statuses of a person, each of them brings a significantly different amount of prestige, this causes what?
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A: Status inconsistency
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Q: Sociologists refer to an established organized system of behavior with a recognized purpose as a what?
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A: Social institution
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Q: Psychoanalytic theory argues what?
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A: Human behavior is directed and motivated as underlying forces that are largely unconscious
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Q: Taking a class in preparation for becoming a father is an example of what?
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A: Anticipatory socialization
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Q: Who was the theorist that devoted his work to explaining how capitalism shaped society?
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A: Carl Marx
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Q: Which of the following statements is false regarding abortion?
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A: public support for abortion has been steadily declining over the past 20 years
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Q: The habit of seeing things only from the point of view of one’s own group is called what?
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A: Ethnocentrism
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Q: Social control is a manifest function of education.
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A: False
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Q: Like ethnicity, race is primarily a socially constructed category.
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A: True
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Q: According to sociologists, any set of people who occupy the same space at the same time is considered a group.
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A: False
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Q: Homophobia is a learned attitude.
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A: True
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Q: The Supreme Court decision that ruled “separate but equal” unconstitutional was Brown v. BOE in 1954.
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A: True
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Q: Becoming an adult is taking longer than it did in earlier times.
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A: True
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Q: A master status is socially imposed but rather is a matter of individual choice.
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A: False
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