Exam 2

A  Teen girls today are growing up in a toxic culture and are at risk for a number of problems and disorders.

B  Adolescents are not considered prime targets for advertising.

C  Women receive conflicting messages of what the “ideal” woman is.

D  Women’s bodies are objectified in our society and women are constantly bombarded with images and messages that they must be thin.

A  there is a discrepancy in funding of public education in the United States and some schools lack resources and offer few opportunities for educational success for their students.

B  all schools in the United States emphasize critical thinking skills today.

C  there is equal funding in schools across the United States.

D  teacher expectations do not affect students’ performance.

A  found that all of the offenders stated that profit motive and extraordinary circumstances due to their employment difficulties were NOT factors in their criminal activity.

B  presented data from a study in which the research method utilized was interviews and the sample included convicted white-collar offenders.

C  found that offenders went through a process of transformation of their identities.

D  stated that the offenders utilized impression management techniques and techniques of neutralization (such as denial of victim) to avoid being labeled.

A  Symbolic Interactionism

B  Exchange Theory

C  Structural Functionalism

D  Cyberfeminism

A  The prejudiced belief that one sex should be valued over another.

B  The refusal to participate in any tasks with gender-specific requirements.

C  Dating a member of the same sex to make a political statement.

D  When people perform tasks based upon the gender assigned to them by society and, in turn, themselves.

A  Cyberfeminism

B  Symbolic Interactionism

C  Structural Functionalism

D  Conflict Theory

A  77 cents

B  $1.52

C  92 cents

D  55 cents

A  Homophobia

B  Gender identity

C  A misunderstanding

D  A double standard

A  Sex is the extent to which one identifies as being either masculine or feminine, gender is biological characterization of anatomy.

B  Sex refers to physical or physiological differences between males and females, while gender is the extent to which one identifies as being either masculine or feminine.

C  Sex refers to who a person is sexually attracted to, and gender refers to whom a person chooses to partner with.

D  Sex refers to sexual orientation, and gender refers to physical or physiological differences between males and females.

A  Symbolic interactionism

B  Feminism

C  Functionalism

D  Conflict theory

A  Affirmative action

B  White privilege

C  The social construction of race

D  Intersection theory

A  Biologically identifiable

B  No longer in existence

C  A product of the media

D  Not biologically identifiable

A  Manifest function

B  Feminism

C  Grade inflation

D  Tracking

A  Systematic grading

B  GPA debt

C  Academic bribing

D  Grade inflation

A  Functionalism

B  Feminist theory

C  Symbolic interactionism

D  Conflict theory

A  Conflict theory

B  Functionalism

C  Symbolic interactionism

D  None of the above.

A  Men and women who are married prefer to seek therapy and counseling for their problems rather than hitting, punching, or screaming.

B  Men and women who are married feel empowered to report abuse, thus the statistics we have on IPV between married couples are very accurate.

C  Men and women who are married experience considerably more abuse, than those who are cohabitating.

D  Men and women who are married experience less abuse, than those who are cohabitating.

A  Most people divorcing in the 1960’s grew up during World War II and struggled to make the austerity of their childhood correlate with their more abundant and fruitful lifestyles in the 1960’s.

B  Men were granted more freedom and often allowed to work from home which put more strain on their marital relationships, and which also coincided with women becoming more educated and more aware of their legal rights.

C  The 1960’s saw the birth of the zero-tolerance concept, which many men and women applied to their marriages, and which, many in society thought a great idea.

D  There was an increase in women working outside of the home, and also, greater social acceptance of divorce.

A  Most people in the Millennial generation are caring for their aging parents and do not have time for long term, serious relationships.

B  Many women fear having children too early and, consequently, having to give up a good career.

C  Many young people place education and career higher than marriage on their list of priorities.

D  Most men spend at least a year traveling the world to get a better understanding of the world, and consequently, don’t want to be tied down by a wife.

A  Cohabitating, unmarried partners have the exact same divorce rate as the people who don’t cohabitate until marriage.

B  Cohabitating, unmarried partners have a slightly higher divorce rate after they get married than those who don’t cohabitate until after marriage.

C  Cohabitating, unmarried partners have a slightly lower divorce rate after they get married than those who don’t cohabitate until after marriage.

D  It does not matter because divorce occurs when two people are incompatible and does not depend on how long people have lived with each other.

A  Sociologists only consider traditional marriage as a requirement to be a family.

B  Sociologists only consider people who live in the same household to be a family.

C  Sociologist try to keep the definition open so that people who walk by each other on the street are a family.

D  Sociologists try to keep the definition open to encompass all types of people who are emotionally close to each other.

A  Continuity theory

B  Modernization theory

C  Exchange theory

D  Age stratification theory

A  As people age, they think less and less about being married to their spouse, and more about their individuality.

B  As people age, they disengage with their friends in order to spend more time with their families.

C  As people age, they generally withdraw from all forms of society.

D  As people age, they begin to lose their friends and family and spend their last days mourning their losses.

A  It is the comparison of children to parents.

B  It is the comparison of healthcare professionals to the elderly.

C  It is the comparison of working people to non-working people.

D  It is the comparison of grandparents to parents.

A  People are living under so much stress now, that they are going gray early.

B  Gray is culturally considered beautiful and thus people are bleaching their hair.

C  The greatest part of the population is reaching the age of 65 and entering old age.

D  With industrialization and the building of big cities, there is very little green nature left and everything is the color of steel.

A  Symbolic Interactionist

B  Cyberfeminist

C  Functionalist

D  Conflict

A  Technological pause

B  New media

C  Computer lag

D  Digital divide

A  An arrangement of practices and behaviors on which society’s members base their daily lives.

B  The regulation and enforcement of norms.

C  A system that has the authority to make decisions based on law.

D  A label that describes the chief characteristic of an individual.

A  Addresses the relationship between having socially acceptable goals and having socially acceptable means to reach those goals.

B  Asserts that motivation and personal responsibility are the key factors in living a healthy lifestyle.

C  Argues that morality is based on wealth.

D  States individuals learn deviant behavior from those close to them who provide models of and opportunities for deviance.

A  Labeling theory

B  Strain theory

C  Differential association

D  Control theory

A  Social reward for the violation of norms.

B  The regulation and enforcement of norms.

C  A violation of established contextual, cultural, or social norms, whether folkways, mores, or codified law.

D  The act of notifying authorities when criminal acts are occurring.

A  Strain theory

B  Opaque theory

C  Labeling theory

D  Differential association theory

A  Age is socially constructed.

B  Age has a similar meaning in most societies.

C  Age is dependent on one’s physical appearance.

D  Age is dependent upon one’s individual attitude and personality.

A  gender stratification

B  sex-typing

C  matriarchy

D  sexual harassment

A  affirmative action

B  political correctness

C  feminization of the workplace

D  gender tracking

A  teaching knowledge and skills, cultural transmission of values, social integration

B  providing child care service for working parents and the hidden curriculum

C  teaching computer literacy, the hidden curriculum, reproducing the social class system

D  teaching the three Rs, the hidden curriculum, reproducing the social class system

A  child neglect

B  child abuse

C  middle-age fatherhood

D  serial fatherhood

A  the conflict perspective

B  the symbolic interactionist perspective

C  the feminist perspective

D  the functionalist perspective

A  all of these were noted in the research findings.

B  Working class and poor parents are more likely to emphasize natural growth, provide basic support, and are more likely to give directives to their children.

C  Middle class parents are more likely to stress language use, the development of reasoning skills, and negotiation.

D  Middle class parents are likely to raise their children by methods of concerted cultivation.

A  all are factors of one’s playing field.

B  parents’ education level and occupation.

C  being male or female and one’s race.

D  none of these are examples of one’s playing field

E  social class level, gender, and geographic location.

A  The intellectual status of each group.

B  The difference in the social class of the Saints compared to the Roughnecks.

C  The race of the members of each group.

D  The age of the Saints compared to the age of the Roughnecks.

A  social class

B  language skills

C  individual IQ scores

D  physical attractiveness

A  Strain Theory

B  Labeling Theory

C  Differential Association Theory

D  Control-Bond Theory

A  caused by positivism.

B  being due to individuals having a criminal personality.

C  caused by a defective environment.

D  caused by biological drives.

A  competition breeds friction between groups.

B  hierarchial statuses formed quickly in the group of boys just as it does in the greater society.

C  all of these.

D  cooperative tasks is inversely related with group conflict.

A  all of these.

B  be obese and/or have low self-esteem.

C  be aggressive and have a weak bond with his parents.

D  become an alcoholic or marry an alcoholic.

A  ethnicity

B  religion

C  education

D  social class

A  Mothers subconsciously rewarded daughters for being dependent.

B  Mothers socialized their sons to be passive and dependent.

C  Mothers kept their sons closer to them when they played.

D  Mothers tended to treat their children the same, regardless of the child’s sex.

A  norms; beliefs

B  actions; attitudes

C  values; attitudes

D  attitudes; actions

A  standardized test scores

B  high school rank

C  age at application

D  family background

A  these children may have a “mid-life crisis” in adulthood as they may revert back to stages they missed in childhood.

B  these children miss out on key stages of their childhood.

C  all of these.

D  these children take on adult reponsibilites.

A  Control-Bond Theory

B  Differential Association Theory

C  Rational-Choice Theory

D  Labeling Theory

E  Strain Theory

A  Differential Association Theory

B  Control-Bond Theory

C  Rational-Choice/Exchange Theory

D  Labeling Theory

A  learning about prejudice and experiencing discrimination has no effect on children.

B  having children experience discrimination first hand can alleviate prejudicial beliefs in adulthood.

C  parents who are prejudice want their children to experience discrimination.

D  children do not adopt stereotypes or learn prejudice from their significant others or agents of socialization.

A  When we have strong attachments, commitments, and involvement with society.

B  When we are members of the middle or upper classes and have too much to lose.

C  When punishment is feared from authorities such as parents or the court system.

D  When we are able to reject negative labels and neutralize our deviance.

A  resocialization

B  the hidden curriculum

C  gender tracking

D  gender socialization

A  It is a bilateral family.

B  It is an extended family.

C  It is a unilateral family.

D  It is an egalitarian family.

A  educating those who are racist will not work as individual’s views do not change.

B  cooperative tasks has not worked in the past as individual achievement is a core U.S. value.

C  consistent and intensive nteractions with other groups can alleviate prejudicial feelings.

D  there is really nothing that can be done as prejudice and discrimination cannot be alleviated.

A  It ensures that the more capable people fill positions requiring higher intellectual levels.

B  It creates dedicated workers who will sacrifice personal ambition for the needs of society.

C  It reproduces the racial and ethnic structure of society for the next generation.

D  It perpetuates the class system that has been in place for generations.