SOC1010:0AAA Intro to Soc FINAL EXAM REVIEW!!

Question 1

Since 1990, America’s rate of teen pregnancy has:

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Decreased

Question 2

Who spoke of African-Americans' dual consciousness, and pioneered a more empirical sociology?

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W.E.B. DuBois

Question 3

Being single in the US is:

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Increasing, through lack of marriage and not just divorce

Question 4

Which of these lead to unequal educational outcomes?

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All of the above

Question 5

Which is TRUE regarding workplace segregation by gender?

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Occupations more populated with women pay less, on average

Question 6

In the recession of 2009, people in the top 1% of the wealth distribution:

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Saw little to no decrease in net worth

Question 7

Cultural hegemony is defined as:

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The pervasive dominance of one culture in the social order

Question 8

Which comprises a compound measure of income, wealth, education, and/or occupation?

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Socioeconomic Status

Question 9

Who conceptualized status as social & cultural capital, usually connected to economic capital?

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Pierre Bourdieu

Question 10

Children’s education in the US was made compulsory in what year?

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1900

Question 11

About what percentage of US children are born to unmarried women?

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40%

Question 12

We are each the product of several overlapping status characteristics. This is known as:

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Intersectionality

Question 13

In the 1960s, Charles Manson persuaded a group of teenagers to murder for him. Manson embodied:

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Charismatic Authority

Question 14

The spiritual life of the secluded “Manson family” included drug-infused orgies. They were a:

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Cult

Question 15

Which is NOT a criticism of Relative Deprivation Theory?

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Doesn't specify conditions for deprivation → social movement

Question 16

A phenomenon which leads to greater interdependency of socioeconomic outcomes worldwide is:

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Globalization

Question 17

The following term refers specifically to a family structure of one husband and multiple wives:

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Polygyny

Question 18

Which is the world’s fastest-growing religion?

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Islam

Question 19

In 2011, the world’s population reached:

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7 billion

Question 20

Rates of depression are highest among:

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Married mothers and unemployed women

Question 21

The continuous accomplishment of a gender identity through interaction is known as:

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Doing Gender

Question 22

As of the 3rd fiscal quarter, 2017, what percentage of US adults are without health insurance?

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12.3%

Question 23

The United States, making up 5% of world's population, consumes ______ of its available energy.

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20%

Question 24

Which violent crimes have increased in frequency in recent decades according to FBI statistics?

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None of the above

Question 25

The average American generates how many pounds of garbage per week?

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35

Question 26

An individual who rejects the institutionalized means to achieve culturally defined success is:

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An Innovator

Question 27

Choose one factor that does not lead to greater social mobility:

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Lessened Immigration

Question 28

Which of the following statements regarding global stratification is TRUE?

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The majority of the world lives in impoverished countries

Question 29

The ability to get others to do something against their own will is called:

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Power

Question 30

How might a structural functionalist view gendered work and gendered pay inequity?

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An effective and established division of labor

Question 31

Durkheim's term for elements that influence many personal outcomes on a sociological level is:

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Social Facts

Question 32

Most grandparents report good relationships with their grandkids, who they see approximately:

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Once per month

Question 33

This method of qualitative research involves in-depth analysis of cultural symbols and texts:

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Content Analysis

Question 34

As per the textbook, 1% of the US population control around _____ of the nation’s net worth.

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35%

Question 35

The 2010 Census allowed individuals to self-identify as to race. How many chose “mixed race”?

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3.0%

Question 36

Public opinion on abortion:

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Has remained relatively constant over the last 20 years

Question 37

A person who is not personally prejudiced, but fails to acknowledge systemic racism, embodies:

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Color-Blind Racism

Question 38

In education, using early evaluation to encourage a specific course path for a child is called:

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Tracking

Question 39

Which describes Durkheim's conception of groups' cohesion due to similar beliefs and roles?

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Mechanical solidarity

Question 40

As per Dependency Theory, multinational corporations:

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Contribute to poverty and dependency in developing nations

Question 41

Allowing the state to claim monopoly over legitimate use of coercion means:

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The state can determine who can use coercion legitimately

Question 42

Since the legalization of abortion, the number of abortions performed has…

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Decreased

Question 43

This phase of feminism formed because white, upper-class women were overrepresented in others:

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Multiracial Feminism

Question 44

The various levels at which phenomena are studied, related to theoretical perspectives, are:

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Levels of analysis

Question 45

Data indicate that when men end up single (never married, divorced, widowed):

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Their health suffers

Question 46

Former colonial nations are politically independent, but financially dependent. This is called:

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Neocolonialism

Question 47

Individuals born with ambiguous genitalia and reproductive structures are termed:

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Intersex

Question 48

This theorist studied labor, organization, modernization, and religious influence on economy:

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Max Weber

Question 49

People who coerce others to perform sex acts for their profit, as a business, are guilty of:

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Sex Trafficking

Question 50

Which does your book cite as an example of egoistic suicide?

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Elder suicide

Question 51

The following describes a society in which heritage is traced primarily through the mother:

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Matrilineal

Question 52

Norms that describe the most severe cultural transgressions, with the harshest sanctions, are:

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Taboos

Question 53

A major reason that students tracked into lower-ability groups learn less is that they are:

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Taught less, and less well

Question 54

Manson's followers killed to start a race war called “helter skelter”. To Merton, Manson was a:

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Rebel

Question 55

Rational-Legal Authority is best described as:

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Authority derived from a set of reasonably established rules

Question 56

The first example of open, large-scale sexual politics in US history was:

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The Feminist movement

Question 57

As per the 2010 US Census, the nation’s population is approximately:

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311 million

Question 58

Those who think one's gender identity and sexual orientation stem from one's sex, believe in:

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Biological Determinism

Question 59

The phenomenon of individuals marrying people similar to themselves is called:

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Homogamy

Question 60

Sociologists define “the state” as:

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The organized system of power and authority in society

Question 61

The ability to take conclusions from a study and apply them to the larger population is called:

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Generalizability

Question 62

As per Gordon Allport, the Contact Theory of race interactions will work if:

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All of the above

Question 63

C. Wright Mills is the central figure in the development of which theory?

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The power elite model of power

Question 64

The increased prestige of medicine and medical professions coincided with:

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The establishment of medicine as a scientific field

SOC1010:0AAA Intro to Soc FINAL EXAM REVIEW!!

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SOC1010:0AAA Intro to Soc FINAL EXAM REVIEW!!

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