sociology

Because of the cost of medical school, poorer students are less likely to become doctors than higher status students. Which theorists would be more likely to examine how this trend impacts social stratification in the U.S.? Functionalists Symbolic Interactionists Conflict Theorists Entitlement Theorists 2. QUESTION 2 Jenny went to college intending to meet a potential mate, not to receive a degree. She dated fourteen guys in three years. Today, Jenny will rank the fourteen young men in terms of their wealth, power, and prestige in order to determine who will make the best husband. Jenny is using a system of:

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Income Distribution • 
Structural Mobility • 
Social Stratification • 
Social Reform

3. QUESTION 3 Lyle was stopped by the police. While searching his car, the police found 650 grams of heroin. The fixed sentence for this crime is life in prison, without parole. This fixed sentence is an example of a(n):

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Mandatory Minimum • 
Plea Bargain • 
Discretion • 
Attachment

QUESTION 4 Mr. Roper manages an apartment complex is San Diego. He has 5 empty units that he needs to rent out. However, when Hispanic people inquire about renting in the complex, Mr. Roper tells them there are no vacancies. This unfair treatment is an example of:

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Prejudice
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Discrimination
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A stereotype
 • 
none of the above

5. QUESTION 5 Randy's friends smoke marijuana and they think that it is cool. Randy learns that marijuana smoking is acceptable from these friends. This interaction is explained by:

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Containment Theory

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Anomie Theory • 
Differential Association Theory • 
Labeling Theory

6. QUESTION 6 There is a telethon on channel 57 right now. The sponsors are asking viewers to phone in donations to feed the starving children in Haiti. These children who do not have enough food to survive are experiencing:

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Absolute Poverty • 
Relative Poverty • 
Marginal Poverty • 
Transitional Poverty

7. QUESTION 7 Today, Ariana is presenting a report to her sociology class on a social policy designed to help minority groups gain opportunities through employment and education. Ariana will be discussing:

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Apartheid • 
Genocide • 
Superordination • 
Affirmative Action

8. QUESTION 8

• "The recognized violation of cultural norms" refers to the concept of

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deviance. • 
crime. • 
legal infraction. • 
juvenile delinquency.

9. QUESTION 9

• A college professor with advanced degrees, moderate salary, and little power to shape national events can be described as having

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high status consistency. • 
horizontal social mobility. • 
downward social mobility. • 
low status consistency.

10. QUESTION 10

• A family leaves Russia and takes up residence in the United States, where they gradually lose Russian cultural traditions. Doing so, these people have modified their

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race. • 
ethnicity. • 
ancestry. • 
religion.

11. QUESTION 11

• A hate crime is defined as • 
any crime against a person who is a minority. • 
any crime involving anger or other powerful emotion. • 
a criminal act motivated by race or other bias. • 
any violation of antidiscrimination laws.

12. QUESTION 12

• A minority is defined as a category of people who are • 
small in numbers and disadvantaged. • 
less than half the society's total population. • 
set apart by that society and subordinated or disadvantaged. • 
born in some other country.

13. QUESTION 13

• According to Karl Marx, social stratification in a capitalist society always involves

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class conflict. • 
negotiation and compromise leading to stability. • 
the abolition of work itself. • 
a working class revolution.

14. According to the documentary 13, 1in 5 African American males are incarcerated

True or False 15. According to the social-conflict approach, deviance has a number of functions for the operation of society as a whole. True or False

16. QUESTION 16 • According to the social-conflict approach, what a society labels as

deviant is based primarily on • 
how often the act occurs. • 
the moral foundation of the culture. • 
how harmful the act is to the public as a whole. • 
differences in power between various categories of people.

17. According to your teacher no race is superior; every race has geniuses and idiots. True or False

18. QUESTION 18

• Assume you were listening to a lecture on Durkheim's approach to deviance. The focus of the lecture might be that

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deviance is a normal element of social organization. • 
deviance is a dysfunctional element of social organization. • 
deviance is less common in modern societies. • 
deviance is defined by the rich and used against the poor.

19. Civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks were portrayed by the media as criminals. True or False 20. QUESTION 20

• Conflict theory states that prejudice is • 
a tool used by powerful people to oppress others. • 
built into culture itself. • 
common among immigrants. • 
common among certain people with rigid personalities.

21. QUESTION 21

• Critics of the 1996 welfare reforms claim the new system • 
has done little to reduce poverty in the United States. • 
has strengthened families in the United States.

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encourages welfare dependency. • 
encourages unmarried women to have children.

22. QUESTION 22

• Edwin Sutherland's differential association theory links deviance to

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how labeling someone as deviant can increase the deviant behavior.

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the amount of contact a person has with others who encourage or discourage conventional behavior.

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how well a person can contain deviant impulses. • 
how others respond to the race, ethnicity, gender, and class of

the individual. 23. QUESTION 23

• Every society tries to regulate the behavior of individuals; this general process is called ______.

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neighborhood watch • 
self control • 
social control • 
the legal system

24. Everyone is prejudice. True or False 25. QUESTION 25

• Four states currently have a "minority majority." Which are they? • 
Texas, New Mexico, California, and Hawaii • 
South Carolina, New York, Florida, and California • 
New Jersey, Georgia, Mississippi, and California • 
Louisiana, Alabama, California, and Arizona

26. In the original experiment, StanleyMilgram wanted to research why so many Nazi's were following orders. True or False 27. In the video "Adam ruins everything" he talked about red lining. This is the invisible line that divides one side of the town from the other side of town. True or False 28. QUESTION 28

• Most criminal cases handled by the criminal justice system in the United States are resolved

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through plea bargaining. • 
through plea bargaining.

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with a judge dismissing all charges. • 
with convictions after a courtroom trial. • 
with a suspect being convicted and sentenced to prison.

29.

Most working-class peopleattend college. True or False 30. Owning and operating gambling casinos have enabled the typical Native American in the United States to achieve well above-average income. True or False

31. People play up or down their ethnicity depending on whether they want to fit in or stand out True or False 32. QUESTION 32

• Research suggests that, with regard to social class, arrest for serious crime

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is about the same for people of all class levels. • 
is higher for people at higher class levels. • 
is higher for people at in lower class levels. • 
almost always involves middle-class people.

33. QUESTION 33

• Scapegoat theory states that prejudice is created by • 
cultural beliefs. • 
high levels of immigration. • 
frustration among disadvantaged people. • 
people with rigid personalities.

34. QUESTION 34

• Sociologists define the concept of "race" as • 
people who fall into any minority category. • 
a person's skin color. • 
a cultural heritage shared by a category of people. • 
a socially constructed category composed of people who share

biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important. 35. The 1915 silent film "Birth of a Nation" portrays Ku Klux Klansmen as criminal animals and black men as heroes . True or False 36. QUESTION 36

• The concept "feminization of poverty" refers to the fact that, in the United States

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more and more women are becoming poor. • 
today's women have fewer legal rights.

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women make up an increasing percentage of the poor. • 
fewer women now work for income.

37. QUESTION 37

• The concept criminal recidivism refers to • 
young people growing up in a criminal environment. • 
efforts by police to enlist help from people in a local community. • 
later offenses by people previously convicted of crimes. • 
the idea that crime does "pay."

38. The documentary also states that 1 in 17 whitemales are incarcerated. True or False 39. QUESTION 39

• The idea that social inequality is harmful and divides society is associated with the

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structural-functional approach. • 
social-conflict approach. • 
symbolic-interaction approach. • 
social-exchange approach.

40. The number of hate groupsin the U.S. is declining. True or False 41. QUESTION 41

• The overall social standing of Native Americans is • 
above the national average. • 
about the national average. • 
below the national average. • 
mixed, with families found equally at all class levels.

42. The term used by the media (AND Hilary Clinton) to describe brown and black youth was "super preditors". True or False 43. QUESTION 43

• Travis Hirschi's control theory suggests that the category of people most likely to engage in deviance is

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students enrolled in college. • 
teenagers on sports teams with after-school jobs. • 
youngsters who "hang out" waiting for something to happen. • 
young people with respect for their parents.

44. QUESTION 44

• Using the sociological perspective, we see that social stratification • 
gives some people more privileges and opportunities than others. • 
places everyone on a level playing field . • 
ensures that hard work will lead people to become wealthy. • 
means that what people get out of life is pretty much what they

put into it. 45. We watched aJimmie Kimmel episode called “Pot Quiz” and one of the young ladies could notname any chief justices but she could name the Kardashians. True or False 46. QUESTION 46

• Which concept refers to earnings from work or any investments? • 
income • 
personal property • 
wealth • 
power

47. QUESTION 47

• While prejudice is a matter of _____, discrimination is a matter of _____.

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biology; culture • 
attitude; action • 
choice; social structure • 
abnormality; what a society considers normal

48. White privilege is invisible to white people. True or False 49. Racist views provide a moral justification for maintaining an unequal society. True or False 50. Black Lives Matter movement emerged in wake of deaths of African Americans at hands of police officers. True or False