Why are there racial difference in life expectancies?

Disparities in access to health care.

Why do you see more girls playing sports than boys playing jump rope?

Boys who cross gender lines are more severely mocked.

Many people would classify Pres. Obama as "mixed race." If he identifies as black, what does this tell us about race?

Race is socially defined and varies.

How do sociologists define a minority group?

A group whose members are denied access to power.

How do sociologists differentiate between sex and gender?

Sex is biological; gender is social.

How do we decide when to display situational ethnicity?

We analyze the pros and cons of doing so.

Second-wave feminism was associated with the issue of:

equal access to employment and education.

Which of the following is one of the basic principles of social stratification?

It is maintained through widely shared beliefs.

Which of the following is used to disenfranchise part of the American population today?

Denying felons the right to vote.

What is the main reason men make more money than women?

Gender socialization concentrates women in low-paying jobs.

How do sociologists define ethnicity?

A group with shared history or cultural heritage.

Why are politics, education, and religion all in the same chapter of your text?

They tend to overlap in everyday life.

What do functionalists generally believe to be true about gender?

Social roles are better suited to one gender than the other.

Why are people more likely to marry individuals with social backgrounds similar to their own?

People mostly have access to people like themselves.

Why would Alfred Kinsey NOT have asked "Do you identify as gay or straight?"

He saw sexuality as a continuum.

What is the real source of racism according to conflict theory?

The struggle between groups over power and control.

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SOC101 Final Review 1

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1
Which of the following is true of the upper class in the US today?
Those in the upper class usually work in managerial roles.
It is largely self sustaining.
It makes up about 30% of the population.
It is comprised mainly of skilled workers.
2
Why are there racial difference in life expectancies?
Disparities in access to health care.
Law enforcement violence directed at certain racial groups.
Genetic differences.
Biological differences resulting in hormonal differences.
3
Why do you see more girls playing sports than boys playing jump rope?
Girls are naturally better at cooperation.
Boys develop more slowly than girls.
Boys are more naturally suited to physical competition.
Boys who cross gender lines are more severely mocked.
4
Many people would classify Pres. Obama as "mixed race." If he identifies as black, what does this tell us about race?
Race is socially defined and varies.
Race is no longer important in the US.
Race does not vary across culture or time.
Obama could take a DNA test to prove he's black.
5
How do sociologists define a minority group?
A group whose members are denied access to power.
A group that is smaller than the dominant group.
A group that makes up <20% of the population.
A group that makes up <50% of the population.
6
How do sociologists differentiate between sex and gender?
Sex is genetic; gender is primary/ secondary sex traits.
Sex is biological; gender is social.
Gender is biological; sex is social.
Hormones are more important for gender.
7
How do we decide when to display situational ethnicity?
We decide based on the holiday.
We only consider religious holidays.
We follow our families' demands.
We analyze the pros and cons of doing so.
8
A black woman is racially profiled while shopping, & her husband expects her to do all the cooking at home. This is:
intersectionality.
feminization of poverty.
second-wave feminism.
gender inequality.
9
Mother Teresa, who had a lot of power and prestige but was poor, is an example of:
status inequality.
status reversal.
status inconsistency.
status contradiction.
10
Second-wave feminism was associated with the issue of:
equal access to employment and education.
rights of women in the Third World.
marginalization of black women.
voting rights.
11
Children of working-class parents managing to get a professional job is an example of:
intragenerational mobility.
a lack of mobility.
intergenerational mobility.
horizontal mobility.
12
Which of the following is one of the basic principles of social stratification?
It is maintained through widely shared beliefs.
All societies stratify according to wealth.
All groups have access to the same rewards & privileges.
Children are unlikely to inherit parents' SES.
13
When women are more likely to live in poverty than men, it is referred to as:
the wages of sin.
the feminization of poverty.
the double standard.
third-wave feminism.
14
The many people who got rich quick during the ".com" boom of the 1990s are examples of:
savvy technological genius.
structural mobility.
wise investing.
horizontal mobility.
15
Which of the following is used to disenfranchise part of the American population today?
Requiring multiple polling locations.
Requiring a literacy test to vote.
Poll taxes.
Denying felons the right to vote.
16
"Poverty is useful because it keeps wages low" would be associated with which theory?
Radical theory
Conflict theory
Symbolic interactionism
Structural functionalism
17
In Explained: Why Women are Paid Less, which is identified as a contributor to the wage disparity between genders?
A "fatherhood bonus"
Discrimination in hiring
A "motherhood penalty"
Women's overall lower educational attainment
18
What is the main reason men make more money than women?
Men are naturally suited to high-paying jobs.
Women don't work as hard as men.
Men are bigger and stronger.
Gender socialization concentrates women in low-paying jobs.
19
How do sociologists define ethnicity?
The same way they define race.
People who share a common physical characteristic.
A group with shared history or cultural heritage.
People with the same skin color.
20
Why are politics, education, and religion all in the same chapter of your text?
All three are important to sociologists.
All three exist only at the macro level.
All three exist only at the micro level.
They tend to overlap in everyday life.
21
What do functionalists generally believe to be true about gender?
Gender is constructed through interaction.
Gender stratification is based on conflict.
Social roles are better suited to one gender than the other.
Men maintain control of valuable roles.
22
Why are people more likely to marry individuals with social backgrounds similar to their own?
People mostly have access to people like themselves.
Parents exert pressure to marry within the group.
People are isolated and antisocial.
People develop fears of outgroup members.
23
Why would Alfred Kinsey NOT have asked "Do you identify as gay or straight?"
He saw sexuality as a continuum.
He thought there were many transgender people.
He believed people would lie.
He tried to offset bias.
24
What is the real source of racism according to conflict theory?
The need for social equality for capitalism to function.
The people who try to live as if they were a different race.
The desire for assimilation.
The struggle between groups over power and control.

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