Exam 3

A  A purposeful organized group hoping to work toward a common social goal.

B  All politicians and elected officials.

C  A collection of rights and laws aimed at the silent majority.

D  A group of people organized at a meeting, such as a town hall or a courtroom.

A  The change in society created through social movements as well as external factors like environmental shifts or technological innovations.

B  An act of military rebellion.

C  A group of people gathered to protest or rally in favor of a bill or law.

D  An act of a bill passing in the House and the Senate.

A  Alternative

B  Reform

C  Revolutionary

D  Religious/Redemptive

A  Alternative

B  Revolutionary

C  Reform

D  Resistance

A  New social movement theory

B  Resource mobilization theory

C  Frame alignment process

D  Collective behavior theory

A  Prognostic

B  Motivational

C  Referential

D  Diagnostic

A  gentrification

B  environmental racism

C  white flight

D  urbanization

A  E-waste is a natural by-product of an industrialized nation and cannot be helped. People must resign themselves to its presence and find better ways of purifying water, soil, and air.

B  E-waste is a sign of degrading cultural values. People no longer value creating lasting products or getting products fixed; they would much rather just buy a new one and discard the old one.

C  E-waste not only contains harmful chemicals, but electronics become obsolete every six months or so, which means, every six months people are throwing away perfectly good electronics in order to get the newest one. This has led to an enormous increase in the amount of trash people produce.

D  E-waste is not easily recyclable because often in the same machine there is glass, plastic, and metal. Also e-waste tends to consist of big, heavy machinery that is difficult to dispose of properly.

A  We have created parks and protected forested areas, sometimes in vain.

B  We eat animals when we should really only eat plants which are much more renewable.

C  We spend money ejecting trash into outer space.

D  We show little concern about contaminating water with our garbage and waste.

A  Structural functionalism

B  Feminist perspective

C  Conflict theory

D  Symbolic interactionism

A  Globalization healthcare

B  Market-driven healthcare

C  Universal healthcare

D  Optimization healthcare

A  Conflict theory

B  Feminist

C  Symbolic interactionism

D  Functionalism

A  Global healthcare

B  Private insurance coverage only

C  Public and private insurance coverage

D  Socialized medicine

A  Private healthcare

B  Socialized medicine

C  Individual mandates

D  Limited healthcare

A  A privately funded health care program which provides health services to people over 65 years old as well as people who meet other standards for disability

B  A publicly funded health care program which provides health services to people over 65 years old as well as people who meet other standards for disability

C  A privately funded health care program which provides services to people over 65 years old as well as people who meet other standards for disability

D  A publicly funded health care program which provides services to people with very low incomes who meet other eligibility requirements

A  High caloric diets

B  Sterilization

C  Veganism

D  Clean water access

A  Poorer members of society experiencing illness caused by poor diet

B  The wealthy having greater access to healthcare

C  HIV spreading across the United States at a rapid rate in the 1980’s

D  Spousal benefits being frequently denied to gay and lesbian couples

A  Doctor/Patient relationships among ill and healthy patients

B  The causes and distribution of diseases

C  How humans manage issues of health and illness, disease and disorders, and health care for both the sick and the healthy

D  The rate at which social diseases spread amongst varying socioeconomic populations

A  Healthcare

B  Community and Social Service

C  Farming, Fishing, and Forestry

D  Financial

A  Automation

B  Polarization

C  Outsourcing

D  The technology gap

A  When products are assembled over the course of several international transactions.

B  The process of removing manufacturing and industrial sites from foreign countries and returning them to the United States.

C  Long periods of recession followed by sharp economic upturn worldwide.

D  The process of integrating governments, cultures, and financial markets through international trade into a single world market.

A  Occupy Wall Street is dangerous; large crowds in these environments heighten the risk for sexual abuse and gender discrimination.

B  Occupy Wall Street is a waste of time; our capitalistic economy is keeping our nation healthy, and is designed for maximum efficiency.

C  Occupy Wall Street is positive; our capitalist economy is only making social inequality grow larger.

D  Occupy Wall Street is a threat; with so many angry people gathered in one place, horrible violence will surely break out.

A  Depression

B  Capital rebuttal

C  Recession

D  Economic sling-shot recovery

A  Post-Industrial Revolution; Information Age

B  Hunting and Gathering society; The Agricultural Revolution

C  The Industrial Revolution; Post Industrial Revolution and Information Age

D  The Agricultural Revolution; Industrial Revolution

A  Symbolic interactionism

B  Strain theory

C  Social Learning Theory

D  Feminist perspective

A  Functionalism

B  Symbolic interactionism

C  Conflict theory

D  Feminist

A  A form of government in which a small percentage of the population is represented by popular election, and the rest of the population is represented by those whose office is dependent upon noble birth.

B  A government wherein citizens elect officials to represent their interests.

C  A government of a nation that recognizes monarchs but requires these figures to abide by the laws of a greater consitution.

D  A form of goverment in which power is held by a small, elite group.

A  Symbolic interactionism

B  Feminist

C  Conflict theory

D  Functionalism

A  Politically elected influence used to control the masses.

B  The legal resources to prosecute and punish.

C  The authority to imprison citizens without cause.

D  The ability to exercise one’s will over others

A  Excellent healthcare

B  Lack of education

C  Massive credit card debt

D  Home foreclosures

A  Relative poverty

B  Marginal poverty

C  Subjective poverty

D  Absolute poverty

A  Middle Class

B  Upper Class

C  Lower Class

D  The amount of people in each class has been about the same for the past 10 years.

A  Conspicuous consumption

B  Credit card consumerism

C  Popular consumerism

D  Designer consumerism

A  How many jobs you work.

B  How much education you have.

C  How well off your parents are.

D  How much you spend on your personal appearance.

A  That the more society values a particular profession, the more the people in that profession will make.

B  That economic hardship and skyrocketing inflation is the cause for all social stratification in the United States.

C  That people constantly move up and down the social ladder, and this creates an unstable economy which will eventually collapse on itself.

D  That Karl Marx was correct and that stratification can only be solved by converting to a socialist government.

A  Social inconsistency

B  Downward mobility

C  Horizontal mobility

D  Social stratification

A  1/16

B  1/3

C  1/4

D  1/8

A  A dictatorship

B  A caste system

C  A meritocracy

D  An oligarchy

A  A closed stratification system

B  A meritocracy

C  A democracy

D  A caste system

A  The interest in environmental problems has decreased in the last fifteen years.

B  Environmental sociology has become a practical area of specialization.

C  There has been an increase in attention to environmental problem by policy makers, scientists, and the media since the late 1980s.

D  There has been a widespread recognition that human activities are causing the quality of the environment to deteriorate and that this deterioration is causing negative affects on people.

A  contacting lobbyists

B  organizing the division of labor among those involved in the social movement

C  institutionalization, when the movement begins to develop a form of bureaucracy

D  resource mobilization

A  transnational social movement

B  millenarian social movement

C  alterative social movement

D  reactive social movement

A  a citizens’ revolt

B  a political action committee

C  a social movement

D  a public systems analysis

A  environmental injustice.

B  both environmental injustice and a social movement.

C  a social movement.

D  the use of fossil fuels.

A  glacier meltdowns in the Arctic and Antarctica

B  a shift in the earth’s axis

C  a decrease in the distance between the earth and sun

D  human activity

A  To be activists to establish a cleaner environment.

B  To understand the interrelationship between individuals, society, and the environment.

C  To stop pollution and discourage the use of nuclear power.

D  To recruit members for green parties.

A  She found that she couldn’t hold down two jobs but that she could not make ends meet on only one job.

B  She wanted to see if it was possible to make a living working in the type of jobs available to unskilled, low-wage individuals.

C  Living on low-wage work was more prosperious than living on welfare.

D  The research method utilized was participant observation as she wanted to live as a low-wage worker for a period of time.

A  all of these

B  There are higher infant mortality rates among the poor often due to a lack of prenatal care and use of substances or smoking.

C  The poor are more likely to be obese due to the foods they eat and the lack of physical activity.

D  They are more likely to have heart disease.

A  functionalist

B  symbolic interactionist

C  feminist

D  conflict theory

A  culture

B  gender

C  all of these play a major role

D  social class

A  much of the world’s population lacks access to fresh water, sanitation, shelter, and education.

B  women represent approximately 60 percent of the population but own less than 1 percent of the world’s wealth.

C  all of these

D  racial miniorities, women, and children are more likely to live in poverty worldwide.

A  refers to the standard of living and those who do not have their basic needs satisfied; refers to the poverty line set by the government.

B  indicates the cycle of poverty; indicates the culture of poverty.

C  refers to the poverty line set by the government; refers to the the standard of living and those who do not have their basic needs satisfied.

D  refers to those in poverty in third world countries; refers to those in poverty in the United States and in other industrialized nations.

A  the power elite are not in control in democratic societies.

B  meritocracy results in more equality in our society.

C  the income gap between the upper class and the other social classes has continued to widen since 1980.

D  the income gap between the upper class and the other social classes as decreased since 1980.

A  Horatio Alger

B  James Fenimore Cooper

C  Mark Twain

D  Johnny Appleseed

A  education

B  mental health

C  physical health

D  work ethic

A  the patriarchal society

B  the feminization of poverty

C  the theory of global genderization

D  the sexualization of society

A  Sociologists support the characteristics of the individual over the social structure explanation as the main cause of poverty.

B  Neither the social structural nor personal characteristics explanation find much support among sociologists as the cause of poverty.

C  Sociologists support the social structure explanation over the characteristics of the individual as the main cause of poverty.

D  Sociologists equally accept the social structure and characteristics of the individual explanations.

A  The increase in social class is likely to result in an increase in health; a decrease in social class is likely to result in a decrease in health.

B  There is no observable relationship between social class and physical health.

C  With an increase in social class and there is often a decrease physical health due to stressors experienced with upward social mobility.

D  Social class only has a direct relationship between physical health among minorities.

A  education, occupation, and rank

B  wealth (property and income), power, and prestige

C  power, authority, and coercion

D  gender, race, and age

A  social aggregate

B  social cliche

C  social class

D  social group