Exam 3

A  Symbolic Interactionism

B  conflict theory

C  functionalism

D  feminist theory

A  Sex is biologically determined and gender is socially constructed.

B  There are no differences between the two.

C  Sex is never ambiguous but gender always is ambiguous.

D  Sex is a social construct and gender is a biological construct.

A  is known as white privilege

B  is preferential treatment

C  doesn’t exist

D  is rerely seen

A  The personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being a male or female.

B  The secondary sex characteristics of men and women

C  people’s sexual orientation

D  The degree of inequality between men and women in a society

A  white privilege

B  reverse discrimination

C  poor police work

D  prejudice discrimination

A  Homosexuals are not a protected class and therefore are not covered by sexual harassment laws.

B  Sexual harassment laws apply to homosexuals who are harassed by heterosexuals or other homosexuals on the job.

C  Sexual desire is a fundamental requirement for a sexual harassment charge to be valid

D  Homosexuals can only file claims of sexual harassment if the aggressor was also a homosexual.

A  more than men on the job

B  about 77 cents for every dollar men earn

C  about the same as men in the workplace.

D  earn half as much as their male counterparts.

A  population transfer

B  subjugation

C  genocide

D  forced assimilation

A  functionalists theorists

B  none

C  conflict theorists

D  symbolic interactionists

A  unintentional institutional discrimination

B  environmental racism

C  intentional discrimination

D  accidental discrimination

A  the glass ceiling

B  sexism

C  the functionalist approach to sexism

D  feminism

A  Gender differences are based on social factors

B  Gender differences are based on genetic dispositions.

C  Gender differences are based on physiological differences.

D  Gender differences are the result of biological differences.

A  learned

B  genetically determined

C  philosophical

D  inherited

A  the greater the level of education, the fewer births to single women

B  the greater the level of education, the more births to single women

C  the lower the level of education, the fewer births to single women

D  There is no relationship between the level of education and births to single women.

A  Sociologists use term “subordinate groups” instead of “minority.”

B  “Majorit”y groups are the same as subordinate groups

C  They wield the political power in a society.

D  “Minority groups” are not seen as synonomous with “subordinate” groups.

A  could be seen as an example of unintended individualistic discrimination.

B  could be seen as racial profiling.

C  is not an example of institutional discrimination.

D  would be an example of instutuional discrimination against groups , such as women, who on average, may not meet the requirement.

A  almost always accurate statements.

B  false by definition; there are always exceptions to the generalizations.

C  sometimes true

D  usually true

A  prejudice discrimination

B  non-prejudice discrimination

C  non-prejudice non-discrimination

D  prejudice non-discrimination

A  good jokes

B  discrimination

C  prejudice

D  stereotype

A  Both Sandra Laing and her parents were really black.

B  Sandra Laing was black and her parents were white.

C  Sandra Laing was really white.

D  Sandra Laing’s race “changed” several times.

A  The ACLU took the Loving case to the Virginia Supreme Court, where the Court invalidated the Virginia anti-miscegenation statute in 1965.

B  The ACLU took the Loving case to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Court invalidated all anti-miscegenation laws in 1967.

C  Richard and Mildred Loving found very little support from whites.

D  Because of social pressure, the couple divorced.

A  Brown v Board of Education

B  Loving v Virginia

C  Bailey v. Patterson

D  Plessy v Ferguson

A  between middlechildhood and early adolescence

B  during teenage years

C  about the age of three

D  not until adulthood

A  the deliberate extermination of a racial or ethnic group

B  The act, process, or state of being set apart

C  Implies a hostility to existing inequalities

D  Transfer of culture from one group to another

A  chattel slavery

B  child slavery

C  indebted servitude

D  peonage

A  is based on biological factors only

B  varies, depending upon the society in which its meaning is constructed

C  tends to be quite similar in all cultures

D  is entirely dependent upon fixed biological characteristics

A  enforced norms of endogamy

B  movement up and down the class ladder

C  ownership of one group of people by another

D  class distinction for life based on ascription

A  It is a segment of a society that has legally established rights and duties.

B  It is closed system of stratification in which a person’s social position is defined by law, and membership is determined primarily by inheritance.

C  It is not an example of a stratified system.

D  Is similar to a caste system, but not as extreme.

A  One of the theoretical perspectives on global stratification.

B  a conflict approach to inequality.

C  well-developed dependency theory.

D  a well-developed funtionalist approach to global inequality.

A  Social inequality emerges through the domination of one or more groups by other groups.

B  Filling the more complex and important positions in society often requires talent that is scarce and has a long period of training.

C  The top two-thirds of Americans earn about two-thirds of the income.

D  Different positions in society make different levels of contributions to the well-being and preservation of society.

A  Canada is an example of a less developed nation.

B  Japan is an example of a more-developed nation.

C  Many coutries in central Africa are more developed nations.

D  The United States is now a less-developed country.

A  intergenerational mobility

B  structural mobility

C  downward social mobility

D  horizontal social mobility

A  Membership in closed systems is based on achieved statuses.

B  Class is an example of an open system.

C  Social mobility is possible in open systems.

D  Caste is an example of a closed system

A  was embraced by conflict theorists

B  was an early functionalist attempt to explain why stratification exists.

C  was eventually disproven

D  was an interactionist attempt to explain stratification.

A  income

B  sports

C  family background

D  amount of wealth

A  structural mobility

B  upward social mobility

C  social stratification

D  social class

A  caste

B  ethnicity

C  class

D  social class