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50 Cards in this Set
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From a global perspective, economic productivity is lowest in precisely in what regions? |
Where technology is most advanced |
Where what is most or least advanced? |
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In the world's lowest-income nations, 2 out of 10 children die by the age of what? |
5 |
How old? |
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For the world as a whole, how many people suffer from chronic hunger that leaves them less able to work and places them at a high risk of disease? |
Close to 1 Billion |
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Absolute poverty is ________. |
Life threatening |
Life threatening or not? |
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How many people in the world die each year due to starvation? |
9 Million |
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Which race contains the largest percentage of the world's street children? |
Latin America |
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In poor countries, the disadvantages women face relative to men are what? |
Greater than in rich nations |
Greater or less than in nations that are what? |
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Of the almost 1 billion people in the world who are living at or close to absolute poverty, what percent are women? |
70% |
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According to Anti-Slavery International, How many men, women, and children live today in conditions that amount to slavery? |
20 Million |
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What refers to one person owning another? |
Chattel slavery |
_________ Slavery |
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What is a type of slavery that consists of employers holding workers by paying them too little to cover their debts? |
Debt bondage |
Debt ____________ |
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If you were to apply modernization theory to the problem of global poverty, you might point that low-income nations have what? |
Low levels of population increase |
Low or high levels of what? |
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The concept of "colonialism" refers to the process by which what? |
Some nations enrich themselves through political and economic control of others |
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The concept of "neocolonialism" refers to the process by which what? |
Countries gain new colonies to replace older ones |
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What refers to a global economy in which multinational corporations exploit people in low-income nations? |
Corporate Slavery |
Corporate ____________ |
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Sociologiests consider the "scientific" racial types of Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negroid to be misleading and even harmful for three reasons 1. 2. 3. |
1. Every society's population contains a lot of genetic mixture 2. Various racial categories are genetically very much alike 3. The skin color of Caucasian people ranges from very light to very dark. |
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What refers to a shared cultural heritage? |
Ethnicity |
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Race refers to what traits considered by a society, while ethnicity refers to what traits? |
Biological; Cultural |
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A family leaves Russia and takes up residence in the US, where they gradually lose Russian cultural traditions. Doing so, these people have modified their what? |
Ethnicity |
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What refers to a category of people, distinguished by physical or cultural traits, who are socially disadvantaged? |
Minority |
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What people are the largest minority category within the US population? |
People of Hispanic descent |
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In the US, minorities typically have what 3 things? |
Less income, occupational prestige, and schooling |
Less __________ |
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A minority is defined as a category of people who are what? |
Set apart by that society and subordinated or disadvantaged. |
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According to the most recent data, African Americans accounted for what percent of the US population? |
13.1% |
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Which 4 states have a "minority majority"? |
Texas, New Mexico, California, Hawaii |
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Prejudice is what three things? 1. 2. 3. |
1. Prejudice involves prejudgments 2. Prejudice treats everyone in some category the same way 3. Prejudice is an attitude |
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You would be expressing a "stereotype" if you what? |
Described everyone in some category in the same way |
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In what 3 states do we find the least racial and ethnic diversity? |
Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire |
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Based on research using the social distance scale, you can correctly say that US college students today are what 3 things? 1. 2. 3. |
1. Less prejudiced than students were 50 years ago 2. Seeing less difference between minority categories than students did 50 years 3. Expressing greater prejudice toward Arabs than African Americans |
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Scapegoat theory states the prejudice is what? |
Frustration among disadvantaged people. |
____________ among disadvantaged people |
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Authoritarian personality theory states that extreme prejudice is a what? |
Trait of certain individuals with particular personalities |
Trait of ___________________ |
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The chapter argues that gender is not just a matter of difference in behavior, but also of differences in what? |
Power, wealth, and privileges |
3 things |
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How do men and women differ? |
Physically in some limited ways |
Physically or mentally? |
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On average, young men show greater what than young women, while young women show greater what than man? |
Mathematical ability; Verbal ability |
Verbal, mathematical, scienticfic? |
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On average women what? |
Live 5 years longer than men |
How much longer or shorter? |
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Comparing the performances of female and male athletes over time shows what? |
Women have been closing the gap with men in most athletic performances |
Women have been______ |
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The point of describing gender in the Israeli kibbutzim is to what? |
Show that cultures define gender in different ways |
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Margaret Mead's research on gender in three societies in New Guinea illustrates that what? |
Traits that are defined as feminine in one society may be masculine in another |
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In his global study of how societies view gender, George Murdock found what? |
Many tasks that were considered masculine by some societies were viewed as feminine by others |
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What refers to social organization in which males dominate females? |
Patriarchy |
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What is the form of social organization in which females dominate males? |
Matriarchy |
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Based on the map and discussion in the text, in which continent do women have the lowest social standing? |
Africa |
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Throughout the life course, gender shapes what? |
Human feelings, thoughts, and actions |
What 3 things? |
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What refers to attitudes and activities that a society links to people of each sex? |
Gender roles |
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According to Janet Lever's observations of children at play, what do boys favor? |
Boys favor games with clear winners and losers |
Games with..... |
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Today, women represent what percent of all students on college campuses across the US? |
57% |
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The "beauty myth" refers to the idea that what? |
Women learn to measure their personal importance in terms of physical appearance |
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Approximately what percent of US women are working for income today? |
60% |
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What has helped increase the share of women in the paid labor force over the course of the last century? |
A rising divorce rate |
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A majority of US women who enter the labor force are what? |
Married, single, and divorced women with children. |
What 3 things? |
