Sociology Final Exam Review

Looking at childhood from a global perspective, we find that...

Talcott Parsons explained that men tend to exhibit ___ behavior, while women are more ___

The smallest share of the planet's population lives in ___

Which of the following is every society's most important primary group?

Social conflict and feminist theories explain that families perpetuate social inequality in U.S. society through ___

The dominant values of the U.S. culture have long reflected ___

Which of the following concepts refers to the "recognized violation of cultural norms"?

Perhaps the most important consequence of the development of mass media and social media has been

In the United States, ___ people tend to vote Democratic; while most ___ people vote republican.

The basic idea of labeling theory is that ____

The Thomas theorem states that

The functions of schooling include

Japan, Canada, and nations of Western Europe are all classified as ___

Smiling and making polite remarks to people we do not like is an example of ___

In the United States, romantic love __

Which sociological research method is best used to study social life in a distinctive community such as the Amish?

Max Weber: Formal organizations are efficient, but that they can have harmful effects. What danger did he see?

Karl Marx believed that religion

Of the following, which country relies the most on a direct-fee market system to pay for medical treatment?

Symbolic-interaction theory explains how the mass media and social media ___

In which of the following clusters of states do we find the least racial and ethnic diversity?

By stating that the sociological perspective shows us "strange in the familiar" argues that sociologists...?

When did the sexual revolution begin?

According to Modernization Theory, nations begin at the __ stage of development and may eventually reach the stage of __

The problem of functional illiteracy means that

Elijah Anderson describes as "the code of the streets" raises the risk that young people will end up __

What accounts for the greatest share of the difference in the earnings of working women and men in the U.S.?

Which of the following diseases is the biggest killer in today's high income nations?

Theoretical approach: claims it is not so much what people do that matters but what meaning they attach to the behavior

With regard to high income nations, dependency theory ____