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Topic 7: Social Strati7cation
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Which term was used by George Herbert Mead to refer to a child's awareness of the attitudes, viewpoints, and expectations of society as a whole?
Select one:
a. generalized other b. significant other
c. impression management
d. symbolic other
Which of the following terms refers to the process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life?
Select one:
a. role divestment
b. resocialization c. desocialization
d. anticipatory socialization
Which of the following is responsible for propelling mothers of young children into the working world?
Select one:
a. the need for additional family income b. the decrease in single-parent families
c. increased job opportunities for men
d. the decrease in the gender pay gap
According to gerontologist Robert Atchley's phases of retirement, in what phase of the retirement experience do retirees learn to deal with life after
retirement in a reasonable and comfortable fashion?
Select one:
a. near phase
b. stability phase c. reorientation phase
d. honeymoon phase
Which of the following statements regarding parental monitoring of the digital world is true?
Select one:
a. Parents profess that they have a large amount of knowledge pertaining to their children's online behavior.
b. Mothers are more likely to monitor online activity than are fathers. c. Parents who have higher incomes tend to discuss online activity more than those with lower incomes.
d. All parents know their children's passwords for e-mail and cell phones.
Socialization is the process
Select one:
a. of mentally assuming the perspective of another.
b. of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
c. whereby people learn the attitudes, values, and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a particular culture. d. whereby people normally being socialized are at the same time socializing their socializers.
A college law enforcement major watches the behavior of television police detectives with great admiration. These detectives could be considered
Select one:
a. an out-
group
.
b. a focus group
.
c. a triad.
d. a reference group
. Which of the following is true regarding marriage in Japan?
Select one:
a. Most husbands do not call their wife by name. b. Husbands say "I love you" more often than those of other nationalities.
c. Most married Japanese couples do not actually love one another.
d. Marriage is considered more a relationship than a social status.
Which of the following is a characteristic of a secondary group
?
Select one:
a. They are generally small.
b. Relationships are generally superficial. c. The dynamic is cooperative and friendly.
d. The interaction is intimate and usually a face-to-face association.
In The
Communist
Manifesto
, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels charged that the capitalist system reduces workers to a mere "appendage of the machine,"
which leads to extreme
Select one:
a. motion sickness.
b. alienation. c. anomie
.
d. goal displacement.
An achieved status is a social position
Select one:
a. attained by a person largely through his or her own e
ff
orts. b. "assigned" to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
c. that is assigned to an individual at birth.
d. that is given to an individual based upon his or her age, race, or gender.
Daniel Bell views postindustrial societies as consensual, because he believes that postindustrial societies are characterized by interest groups concerned
with such national issues as health, education
, and the environment working for the common good. Bell's view represents which sociological perspective?
Select one:
a. Functionalist perspective b. Conflict perspective
c. Interactionist perspective
d. Feminist perspective
Worldwide, low-income groups, racial and ethnic minorities, rural residents, and the citizens of developing countries have far less access than others to the
latest technologies. This gap is referred to as the
Select one:
a. digital enclosure.
b. digital world.
c. digital dam.
d. digital divide. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what eventually reaches the audience is referred to as
Select one:
a. the dominant ideology
.
b. gatekeeping. c. the surveillance function.
d. the narcotizing dysfunction.
Which of the following statements concerning media portrayal of gender roles would the feminist perspective most likely endorse?
Select one:
a. Women are overrepresented in most television roles.
b. Women are often portrayed as being in need of rescue by males. c. Men are often portrayed as compliant, working-
class persons.
d. Women are portrayed as overweight and dull in most television roles.
Which of the sociological perspectives would see the debate over media content as an extension of everyday life?
Select one:
a. functionalist perspective
b. global perspective
c. interactionist perspective d. conflict perspective
Conflict theorists typically emphasize
Select one:
a. the conferral of status.
b. the promotion of consumption.
c. the digital divide. d. the enforcement of social norms
.
Which sociological perspective would likely contend that the role of the mass media is to provide socialization
, enforce social norms through public events,
and create social stability and cohesion through collective experiences?
Select one:
a. functionalist perspective b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. feminist perspective
Crime that occurs across multiple national borders is known as
Select one:
a. transnational crime. b. white-collar crime.
c. organized crime.
d. global crime.
Social control carried out casually by people through such means as laughter, smiles, and ridicule, is known as
Select one:
a. neutralization.
b. conformity.
c. informal social control. d. formal social control.
Which of the following individuals would most likely be the focus of labeling theorists who are researching the power of some individuals or groups to define
labels?
Select one:
a. sexual predators and prostitutes
b. gamblers and money launderers
c. regulators of social control d. sexual predators and prostitutes, and
gamblers and money launderers
An important tenet of labeling theory is the recognition that some individuals or groups have the power to define labels and apply them to others. This view
shares the emphasis on the social significance of power maintained by the
Select one:
a. functionalist perspective.
b. conflict perspective. c. interactionist perspective.
d. global perspective.
An important aspect of a professional criminal's work is
Select one:
a. studying crime statistics.
b. boundary maintenance.
c. developing skilled techniques. d. goal multiplication.
Clyde is imprisoned for "tagging," or "visual terrorism." The arrest is an example of a(n)
Select one:
a. formal sanction. b. value.
c. informal sanction.
d. norm.
In Karl Marx's view, social relations during any period of history depend on who controls the
Select one:
a. mass media.
b. primary mode of economic production. c. legislature.
d. most powerful religious organizations.
Sociologists have documented that the class system is more rigid for
Select one:
a. Whites.
b. African Americans. c. Asian Americans.
d. Hispanics.
______ is often blamed for this growing inequality, because it has forced less skilled workers to complete with lower-paid foreign-born workers.
Select one:
a. Industrialization
b. Vertical mobility
c. Social mobility
d. Globalization The commonly used "poverty line" measure of poverty used by the federal government measures which type of poverty?
Select one:
a. relative poverty
b. absolute poverty c. elementary poverty
d. dramatic poverty
An 83-year-old woman is placed at a small table in a dark corner of a trendy nightclub and is ignored by the sta
ff
. Her shoddy treatment is probably due to
her age, which is a(n) ________ status.
Select one:
a. ascribed b. achieved
c. horizontal
d. structural
Thorstein Veblen suggested persons at the top of the social hierarchy convert wealth into conspicuous consumption, while the behavior of the lower classes
is often subjected to ridicule. Veblen's views are from the
Select one:
a. functionalist perspective.
b. conflict perspective.
c. interactionist perspective. d. feminist perspective.
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