Sociology Exam 2

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Today the mass media is spearheading changes in gender relations for Iranian Women

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T

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Throughout American history all women have aspired for the right to vote and to share in the governing of this nation

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F

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The concept of aging is primarily a social construction with no firm standard of what constitutes getting old

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T

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Honor killings and suttee are just 2 examples of global violence against women

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T

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Based on disengagement theory, retirement is a matter of conflict in which the older, more powerful members of society try to retain their position of power and prestige against the efforts of the young to replace them

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F

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In the third wave of the feminist movement, women in America finally earned the right to vote

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F

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Life span refers to the number of years people can expect to live, while life expectancy is the maximum number o years possible to live

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F

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None of the functionalist theories of again enjoy unanimous support of the scientific community as an explanation of how people respond to the aging process

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T

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Traditional authority increases with the level of industrialization in society.

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F

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The Republican Party is usually associated with legislation that improves working conditions and controls competition

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F

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Because of this nation's emphasis on democracy and freedom, most Americans vote in presidential election

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F

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According to Weber, Power and authority are the same thing

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F

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The concept of conspicuous consumption was ushered in with the surplus created by the agricultural society

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F

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The U.S. serves as a perfect example of laissez faire capitalism

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F

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Since 1900, the % of white collar workers in the U.S. workforce has lost ground to the number of blue collar and farm workers

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F

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The Cold War has been replaced by an economic war that places pure capitalism, represented by the West, against pure socialism, represented by Russia and China

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T

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Multinational corporations have established a New World Order characterized by increased patriotism of citizens to their respective nations

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T

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In the traditional society, inheritance is highly individualistic and usually bi-lineal

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F

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First time brides and grooms are younger today than at any other time in U.S. history

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F

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Most people who cohabitate do so with the intention of it being a step toward marriage

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T

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among two parent families nannies are the most common care providers for preschoolers while their parents are at work

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F

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While most married women give birth, 1/5 do not. This is 2x what it was 20 years ago

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T

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The best example of exogamy is the incest taboo

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T

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Functionalists and conflict theorists view family in the same way

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F

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What is the entity that claims a monopoly on legitimate force or violence?

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The government or state

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What is another term for bureucratic authority?

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Rational-legal authority

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What type of authority is based on written rules that are reasonable and agreed to by the people?

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Rational-legal

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In what form of government would a person participate in a town hall meeting?

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Direct democracy

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What term did sociologist William Domhoff use to refer to the power elite?

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Ruling class

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In which society did power shift from the heads of families and clans to a ruling elite, leading to greater inequality?

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Agricultural society

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Although there is a market for a variety of products, including explosives, strong pesticides, and poisons, they cannot be sold to the general public. Restrictions on what can be manufactured and sold are a feature of what form of capitalism?

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State capitalism

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What are the 3 essential components of socialism?

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Central planning
Public ownership of the means of production
Distribution without profit motive

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What theory is based on the idea that the 2 economic systems, capitalism and socialism, will eventually adopt features of the other until there is a hybrid economic system in all societies?

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Convergence theory

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When Chinese leaders realized the wealth-producing capacity of capitalism, they produced ____, which is capitalism directed by communists.

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Capunism

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According to the text, what may be the most significant economic change in the past 100 years?

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Globalization of Capitalism

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The leaders of the globe's top multinational companies have overlapped to such a degree that they have formed what is known as the ____.

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Global superclass

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When Frank was only 1 he was "unofficially" adopted by another family on the block when Frank's parents were killed in a car accident. Frank lived with this family until he enlisted in the military when he was 19. How would sociologists classify the adopting family that Frank lived with for 18 years?

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Family of orientation

Front 38

Which of the following statements is least accurate regarding family and marriage?
a. characteristics of marriage are the same in industrial and traditional societies
b. the nuclear family consists of parents and children living apart from other relatives
c. the family of orientation is the family in which an individual grows up
d. marriage is a group's approved mating procedure

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A.

Front 39

In which type of society do anthropologists think exogamy was especially functional?

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Tribal

Front 40

Which of the following statements if most true of love and courtship?
a. romantic love is the concept of people being sexually attracted to one another and idealizing each other
b. the roots of romantic love originated in medieval western Europe and have changed little since then
c. romantic love begins with the formal introduction between two people
d. the role of love is a cultural universal and the basis for marriage in most societies

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A.

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Some states in the U.S. recognize ___, giving legal status to same-sex unions.

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Registered domestic partnerships

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What state in the U.S. initially legalizes same-sex marriages but then voters overturned this action with a ballot initiative called Proposition 8, which limits marraige to a man and a woman?

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California

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Discount statistics related to divorce

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Divorce has nothing to do with marriage