SOC 1010 – Final – Test #4

the Industrial Revolution.

rural population; deaths of children; total population; all of the above

the legacy of colonialism; the advent of multinational corporations; modernization; all of the above

modernization.

the maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period.

world systems analysis.

is a poor, developing nation exploited by more powerful nations and corporations (e.g., Honduras and Ethiopia).

globalization.

The value of sales of the largest multinational corporations exceeds the total value of goods and services of many peripheral nations.

multinationals bring jobs to the area; multinationals promote diffusion of inventions and innovations from industrialized nations; cheap labor is ideal for a global enterprise; all of the above

Europe, North America, and some Asia-Pacific nations.

variation that occurs at the cellular level; what we become as men and women; variation at the anatomical level; the appropriate cognitive, normative, and material culture information assumed to be natural in our social worlds; biological differences between males and females; the social and cultural significance that we attach to those presumed biological differences; All of the answers are correct.

gender roles

the mass media; religious institutions; educational institutions; all of the above

female characters were portrayed as passive and in need of strong males.

57 percent

the glass ceiling.

28 hours; 16 hours

A woman has a career as a stockbroker, and she is also responsible for maintaining the apartment, doing the shopping, and cooking for herself and her husband.

In mid-2010, 6 of the nation's 50 states had a female governor.; Only one woman, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has ever been a candidate for President of the United States.; Both answers are true.

sexism.

racial group

whose members have significantly less control over their own lives than the members of a dominant group.

that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.

unreliable generalization about all members of a group that does not recognize individual differences within the group.

Throughout history, many Southern states defined a person as Black, regardless of how he or she looked, if he or she had only a single drop of "Black blood"?; Over 7 million people in the U.S. are multiracial.; The largest multiracial group is of White and American Indian ancestry.; all of the above

a belief that one race is supreme and that all others are innately inferior.

exploitation; prejudice.; discrimination. ; all of the above

discrimination.

racial profiling.

exploitation theory.

states that interracial contact between people of equal status will cause them to become less prejudiced and to abandon previous stereotypes.

Assimilation

physically separating two groups; it is often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.

Southeast Asians

Latinos

a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.

Native Americans and African Americans.

the sick role

the growing role of medicine as a major institution of social control.

premenstrual syndrome; hyperactivity; homosexuality; all of the above

study of the disease distribution, impairment, and general health status across a population.

total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.

class; race and ethnicity; gender and age; All of the answers are correct.

education and food stamps. prisons and defense; farm subsidies and foreign aid; all of the above

the environment provides the resources essential for life; the environment serves as a waste repository; the environment "houses" our species; all of the above

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environmental justice.

Sex-role socialization theory; Structural perspective; Doing Gender theory; All of the above.

Whites; New whites; Only A and B