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Topic 12: Social Change
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Critics of the hidden curriculum are concerned that
Select one:
a. it may lead to a type of interpretive behavior.
b. discipline takes precedence over the learning process. c. it places too much emphasis on creative thought.
d. it may lead to a type of interpretive behavior, and also, it gives discipline
precedence over the learning process.
The marginalization in sex and relationship education in schools of anything other than
heterosexual relationships is an example of
Select one:
a. a hidden curriculum
. b. the correspondence principle.
c. the teacher-expectancy e
ff
ect
.
d. the Protestant ethic
.
Which sociological perspectives would likely argue that charter schools do not represent
teachers' interests well and are contributing to the decline of labor unions?
Select one:
a. functionalist
b. conflict c. interactionist
d. feminist
In schools in the United States, bilingual education has been defended on the grounds
that it
Select one:
a. is a means to encourage cultural diversity. b. assists in the cultural integration of immigrant groups.
c. assists in the political integration of immigrant groups.
d. encourages tolerance amongst children and their parents.
Which of the following illustrates a current trend in higher education
?
Select one:
a. White participation in higher education fell from 44 percent to 28 percent between
1978 and 2008.
b. More women than men are receiving college degrees. c. Equal gains are being made by Latino and African American groups in educational
attainment.
d. Men are more likely to receive degrees than women.
Which of the following is considered a problem with homeschooling?
Select one:
a. quality control b. the number of teachers
c. the quality of the time children spend with parents
d. the rate of learning
Which sociological perspective emphasizes religion as a potential source of structural
social change
, through liberation theology
?
Select one:
a. functionalist
b. interactionist
c. conflict d. feminist
Which sociological perspective emphasizes individual religious expression through belief,
ritual, and experience?
Select one:
a. functionalist
b. interactionist c. conflict
d. feminist
Which of the following is the largest single denomination in the United States?
Select one:
a. Roman Catholic b. Protestant
c. Judaism
d. Muslim
Which sociological perspective emphasizes the integrative power of religion in human
society?
Select one:
a. functionalist perspective b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. global perspective
Which of the following is true regarding Islam?
Select one:
a. Followers of Islam vary sharply in their interpretations of traditions. b. Islam recognizes Jesus as the son of God.
c. Islam is more individualistic in its expression than Christianity.
d. Muslim governments do not reinforce Islamic practices through laws.
The statements to which members of a particular religion adhere are known as
Select one:
a. religious beliefs. b. religious experiences.
c. religious rituals.
d. religious norms
.
Which model of power relations suggests that society is ruled by a small group of
individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests?
Select one:
a. pluralist model
b. elite model c. functionalist model
d. interactionist model
In a society with leadership based on charismatic authority
, leaders derive their authority
from
Select one:
a. custom and accepted practice.
b. their exceptional personal or emotional appeal. c. the written rules and regulations of the political system
.
d. threats to use coercion to impose their will on others.
A
ffi
rmative
action
is defined as
Select one:
a. the act of admitting minorities to colleges, regardless of their credentials.
b. the act of hiring minorities for open positions, regardless of their qualifications.
c. positive e
ff
orts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions,
and educational opportunities. d. e
ff
orts to further segregate minority groups from employment and educational
opportunities.
According to C. Wright Mill's model, which of the following groups is located at the
bottom of the pyramid?
Select one:
a. exploited masses
b. legislators
c. military leaders
d. social upper class What term for government do we use to refer to a small group of individuals who rule?
Select one:
a. democracy
b. dictatorship
c. oligarchy d. representative democracy
O
ff
shoring
refers to
Select one:
a. doing work on an o
ff
shore ship.
b. sending jobs overseas. c. managing o
ff
shore oil rigs.
d. agreeing to move if one's position is relocated.
Which area of study is concerned with the interrelationships between people and their
physical environment?
Select one:
a. human relations approach
b. human ecology c. activity theory
d. humanism
Morbidity rates are the
Select one:
a. incidence of diseases in a given population. b. number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population
during a stated period of time.
c. incidence of death in a given population.
d. total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.
The controlling factor for the functionalist perspective is
Select one:
a. the medical profession.
b. the physician as a gatekeeper. c. social inequities.
d. medicalization.
If a nonmainstream practice is used together with conventional medicine, it's considered
Select one:
a. traditional.
b. holistic.
c. complementary. d. traditional.
Erin
Brockovich
, a movie that features Julia Roberts, examines a true-life event that
revolved around environmental pollution in a working-
class community by a major utility
corporation that was apparently unconcerned about the long-term e
ff
ects of the pollution
on community residents. This movie illustrates which sociological concept?
Select one:
a. environmental racism
b. environmental justice c. demographic transition
d. demographic intransigence
A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to
environmental hazards is referred to as
Select one:
a. environmental prejudice
.
b. treadmill production.
c. principled injustice.
d. environmental justice. Which individual, likely the most prolific researcher of collective behavior in the last four
decades, introduced the concept of the assembling process?
Select one:
a. Neil Smelser
b. Ralph Turner
c. Clark McPhail d. Émile Durkheim
Which term refers to cultural information about how to use the material resources of the
environment to satisfy human needs and desires?
Select one:
a. invention
b. society
c. technology d. government
Talcott Parsons contends that societies experience value ________, the development of
new values that tolerate and legitimate a greater range of activities.
Select one:
a. di
ff
erentiation
b. adaptation
c. inclusion
d. generalization Which slang term is used to identify those who resist technological devices that have
become part of our daily life?
Select one:
a. Luddite
b. Neo-Luddite
c. Urban Amish d. Neo-Amish
Which statement about the Industrial Revolution is true?
Select one:
a. Some people were resistant to the technological and social changes associated
with the Industrial Revolution. b. The Luddites were very successful in their e
ff
orts to sabotage the Industrial
Revolution.
c. There is no contemporary equivalent to the Luddites.
d. Wages rose uniformly during the Industrial Revolution.
As opposed to fads, fashions
Select one:
a. are generally short-lived.
b. tend to be viewed with amusement.
c. may reflect status and wealth
. d. spring up independently of preceding trends.
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