Chapter Comprehensive III Quiz SOCI 151 review

Question 1

Condition experienced by a person fleeing their home to another location within their country:

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Being internally displaced

Question 2

Social stratification based on just ascription, or birth is BEST called

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Caste

Question 3

The forced dispersal of an ethnic population from an original homeland into foreign areas ... best creates

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A disapora

Question 4

Robert Merton's Strain Theory explains the extent & type of deviance people engage in

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Depends on whether a society provides means to achieve goals

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The glass ceiling best describes a situation in a workplace or organization that

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Impedes higher advancement of women and other minorities

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Resistance remains against expanding the role of women in the U.S. military primarily because

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Many have difficulty seeing women as killers or being killed

Question 7

The working poor are BEST described as people

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Whose earnings are not enough to lift them above the poverty line

Question 8

According to the U.S. Uniform Crime Report data and other statistics

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Men commit more crime than women

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An act of moral vengeance by which society makes the offender suffer as much as the crime is

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Retribution

Question 10

The Davis-Moore thesis in sociology best states that social stratification has

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Beneficial consequences for society

Question 11

Unequal treatment of various categories of people is BEST described as

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Discrimination

Question 12

The Beauty Myth is Naomi Wolf's characterization that striving to be physically

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Attractive to men is key to women's happiness

Question 13

Social stratification based on ascription or birth AND individual achievement is BEST called

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Class

Question 14

Regarding Modernization theory, the greatest barrier to economic development of poor nations is

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Tradition

Question 15

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico is best considered be an

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Example of Corporate Crime

Question 16

Biological reproduction by partners of different racial categories is BEST called

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Miscegenation

Question 17

The U.S. abolished chattel slavery with adoption of the 13th Amendment in 1865 and stated that

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State-imposed slavery could exist for convicted criminals

Question 18

Dependency Theory is a model of economic development explaining global inequality in terms of

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Historical exploitation of poor nations by rich ones

Question 19

A scapegoat is best defined as a person or category of people that other people blame

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Unfairly for their own troubles as those blamed lack power

Question 20

Social category of people sharing biologically transmitted traits considered important is

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Race

Question 21

Neocolonialism is a new form of global power relationships best involving economic exploitation

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By multinational corporations rather than political powers

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Biologically, racial differences are literally only

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Skin deep ...

Question 23

A "eye for an eye" is a form of punishment BEST described as

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Retribution

Question 24

Considering cultural values and norms of a society, deviance best

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Affirms them by showing the difference between right & wrong

Question 25

For every dollar earned by men, women earned in the United States on average

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Seventy-eight cents

Question 26

Debt bondage is best defined as the employer providing food and housing by

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Charging workers more than then can ever pay back

Question 27

Two key foundations of deviance include which of the following

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It varies according to norms & when people are labeled so

Question 28

The physical and social segregation of categories of people by law is BEST called

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De jure segregation

Question 29

A refugee is BEST defined as someone who has fled their home

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To a whole other country due to some crisis

Question 30

Another key foundation of deviance is best defined as which of the following of how societies

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Set norms & how they define rule-breaking involves power

Question 31

Physical & social segregation of categories of people that is still widely practiced is called

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De facto segregation

Question 32

Another one of deviance's essential functions best stipulates that responding to deviance

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Brings people together and encourages social change

Question 33

The movement of people into one country for the purpose of settlement is BEST called

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Immigration

Question 34

Andre Gunder Frank argued that the colonialism that helped develop rich nations also

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Led to the underdevelopment of poor societies

Question 35

Double Consciousness is the theoretical analysis that best states than an individual's identity

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Is divided into two social realities because of racism

Question 36

Form of social organization in which females dominate males is BEST called

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Matriarchy

Question 37

The total value of money and other assets, minus outstanding debts, is BEST called

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Wealth

Question 38

A change of position within a social hierarchy is BEST called

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Social mobility

Question 39

The lack of resources that is life-threatening is BEST described as

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Absolute poverty

Question 40

Ideology is best defined as cultural beliefs that

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Justify particular social arrangements (e.g., inequality)

Question 41

Institutional racism (AKA Institutional discrimination and/or prejudice) BEST describes

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Bias built into the operation of society's institutions

Question 42

Simplified often exaggerated description applied to every person in some category is BEST called

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Stereotype

Question 43

Human trafficking is best defined as a condition in which people are moved from one place to

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Another for the purpose of forced labor

Question 44

Creation of a hostile environment in a workplace is a form of sexual harassment that results in

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Both obvious & subtle sex harassment (e.g.,teasing, jokes, comments)

Question 45

The types of social control Hirschi links to societal conformity include experiencing and/or:

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Having attachment, opportunity, involvement, and belief

Question 46

The lack of resources of some people in relation to those who have more is BEST called

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Relative poverty

Question 47

Hirschi's Control Theory states that social control best depends upon people:

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Anticipating the consequences of their behavior

Question 48

Upward or downward social mobility of children in relation to their parents BEST measures

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Intergenerational mobility

Question 49

Regarding gender, most sociologists believe that

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Gender is socially constructed and can be changed

Question 50

Meritocracy is BEST defined as social stratification based on

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Personal merit (What you know)

Question 51

Racial profiling is best defined as police behavior that is based on personal

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Characteristics of the person(s) stopped by police

Question 52

Considering the economic, political, and social reality of gender stratification worldwide:

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Patriarchy is the dominant form of social organization

Question 53

Surplus value refers to value of a worker's labor power left over when an employer has repaid

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The cost of hiring the worker, resulting in company profits

Question 54

Social conflict theorists view structural social mobility is best seen as a result of:

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Societal changes

Question 55

Recidivism (also known as Criminal Recidivism) is BEST defined as

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Offenses committed by people previously convicted of crime

Question 56

The systematic killing of one category of people by another BEST describes

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Genocide

Question 57

Social category of shared cultural heritage typically with common ancestors and language is

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Ethnicity

Question 58

According to Marxian theory, proletarians became members of a new working class that were

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People who sold their labor for wages

Question 59

Earnings from work or investments are BEST called

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Income

Question 60

The movement of people out of one country in order to settle in another is BEST called

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Emigration

Question 61

A system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy is BEST called

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Social stratification

Question 62

About half of all the wealth in the world is owned by about

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One percent of the world's adult population

Question 63

A business supplying illegal goods or services is BEST called

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Organized Crime

Question 64

Servile forms of marriage are best defined as a condition in which

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Families marry off their daughters against the latter's will

Chapter Comprehensive III Quiz SOCI 151 review

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Chapter Comprehensive III Quiz SOCI 151 review

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