Test 3

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deviance

Back 1

a behavior or appearance that follows and maintains the standards of a group.

Front 2

social control

Back 2

includes the methods used to teach, persuade, or force people to comply with norms and expectations.

Front 3

Sanctions

Back 3

reactions or responses of approval or disapproval to another's behvior or appearances

Front 4

Censorship

Back 4

US gov officials delayed release of congressional report on 9-11 for seven months and when the report was released some sections related to Saudi Arabia were balckened out. What mechanism of social control is this known as?

Front 5

Surveillance

Back 5

Telephone tapping, interception of letters, observations via close circuit television, and electronic monitoring.

Front 6

the US

Back 6

What country has the highest incarceration rate in the world?

Front 7

Conformists

Back 7

People who have not violated rules of a group and are treated accordingly.

Front 8

A witch hunt

Back 8

After 9-11 Muslims and Arab Americans have been caught up in a criminal investigation of historical proportions. From a sociologists point of view this criminal investigation would be considered a?

Front 9

1.2 billion

Back 9

How many people live on less than 1$ per day.

Front 10

A systematic

Back 10

Social stratification is ____________ process in wich individuals, groups, and places categorized and ranked on a scale of social worth.

Front 11

Life chances

Back 11

includes everything from the chance to stay alive during the first year of life to the chance to go to college.

Front 12

the US

Back 12

If we confine our analysis to the worlds 25 wealthiest countries, the inequality gap between the richest 10% and the poorest 10% is greatest in what country?

Front 13

Ascribed characteristics

Back 13

Attributes that people have at birth, develop over time, or possess through no effort or fault of their own.

Front 14

Acheived characteristics

Back 14

Attributes tha people acquire through some combination of choice, effort, and ability.

Front 15

Apartheid

Back 15

a caste system of stratification

Front 16

people rise and fall on the strength of their abilities

Back 16

Ideally, in a class system of stratification

Front 17

black and hispanic households are disproportionately concentrated in lower-income categories.

Back 17

Income profiles for households classified as white, black, hispanic show that

Front 18

a combination of class and caste systems

Back 18

Most systems of stratification, including the US system, are

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Neocolonialism

Back 19

the term for continuing economic dependence on former colonial powers

Front 20

Pay equity

Back 20

inolves paying men and women who work in the same firm and the same occupation equally

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4

Back 21

The UN calculates that a ___ percent levy on the richest 225 people could provide for the base needs of the world's 1.2 billion poorest people

Front 22

Hispanic

Back 22

What is not one of the six official racial categories in the US?

Front 23

understanding

DOES include:
chance
context
choice

Back 23

Race and ethnic classification are a product of three factors. Those factors include all but what?

Front 24

any race

Back 24

According to the US system of racial classification, hispanics can/should be classified as?

Front 25

lack of access to and control over valued resources

Back 25

the key characteristic determining minority status is

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segregation

Back 26

the physical and/or social separation of categories of people from one another.

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assimilation

Back 27

the process by which individuals give up parts of their own culture to adapt o and be accepted by a new dominant culture

Front 28

was coined in early colonial times when the fur traders offered bounties for the scalps of literally the red skins of slaughtered indians

Back 28

the term "redskin"

Front 29

prejudice is an attitude, discrimination a behavior

Back 29

distinguish between prejudice and discrimination

Front 30

it overshadows all other attributes that a person might possess.

Back 30

a stigma is considered discrediting because...

Front 31

government regulated economies

Back 31

what characteristic is not a characteristic of capitalism?

Front 32

public ownership

Back 32

a conerstone of a socialist economic system

Front 33

oil revenues

Back 33

iraq's economy is heavily dependent on?

Front 34

World-system theorists argue that continous economic expansion on a global scale is

Back 34

capitalist-driven

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peripheral

Back 35

The vietnamese economy is very vulnerable of price fluxuations. For example, the country managed to become the third largest producer of coffee beans when prices were around $3.00 per pound only to see the price drop to less than 50 cents. The vulnerability explains why Vietnam is classified as a ____________ economy.

Front 36

Core

Back 36

economies that include the wealthiest, most highly diversified economies with strong stable governments.

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Iraq

Back 37

The worlds most heavily indebted country

Front 38

Odious

Back 38

debts that are the "personal" debts of a particular regime contracted without the consent of the people and spent in ways that are against their interests

Front 39

socialist

Back 39

the US can not be classified as?

Front 40

that generate or extract raw materials from the natural environment

Back 40

the primary sector of the economy includes economic activities

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delivering services

Back 41

"A strong tertiary sector" of the economy means that economic activity related to _____________ is very important.

Front 42

tertiary

Back 42

Most people in the US work in the _________ sector of the economy.

Front 43

an oligopoly

Back 43

In the US, three foreign-owned corporations control 90% of technical, medical, and scientific publishing. This situation describes?

Front 44

monopoly

Back 44

when a single producer dominates a market, a ________ exists.

Front 45

Power

Back 45

________ is the probability that an individual can acheive his or her will even against another individual's opposition.

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traditional

Back 46

A "chief, king, or queen" possesses power based on which form of authority?

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charismatic authority

Back 47

which kind of authority did MLK jr hold?

Front 48

Legal-rational

Back 48

authority rests on a system of impersonal rules that formally specify the qualifications for occupying a powerful position.

Front 49

fertility rate

Back 49

the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime

Front 50

selective forgetting

Back 50

some societies trace family lineage through the maternal or the paternal side only. This practice is known as?

Front 51

endogamy

Back 51

Sara marries someone of the same religion as herself. She has followed the norm of?

Front 52

Productive work

Back 52

the "means of existence, food, clothing, and shelter and tools" relates to?

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reproductive

Back 53

A husban, his wife and their 2-year-old son are travelling by plane. The husband is holding his screaming son. A male passenger turns around and remarks "Why doesnt the mother take care of the baby?" The passenger is conveying his belief that women do the ________ work.

Front 54

White, non Hispanic

Back 54

In the US, children classified as ___________ are most likely to live in secure parental employment households.

Front 55

endogamy

Back 55

At one time, before 1967, the US had laws prohibiting mrriages between people classified as white and black. Those laws enforced