Sociology Final Exam: Chapters 6 – 10

The theory of behavior in which people who associate with some groups learn an "excess of definitions" of deviance, increasing the likelihood that they will become deviant is ________.

According to sociologist Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, boys in urban areas are motivated to join gangs for a number of reasons. Which of the following reasons LEAST qualifies as one of the reasons Jankowski discovered why urban youth join gangs?

Which type of sociologists would consider deviance to be a natural part of society?

Which of the following theories of deviance is LEAST associated with sociobiology?

Ritualistic procedures intended to humiliate norm violators and mark them as being moral outcasts of the group to which they once belonged are called ________.

When Officer Friel discovered Mark smoking marijuana outside the school, he took him home and turned him over to his parents for counseling and treatment as they felt appropriate. He also warned Mark the next time would result in a ride to juvenile hall. Which statement best describes Officer Friel's actions?

All of the following acts qualify as a white collar crime EXCEPT for which one?

The term degradation ceremony was coined by sociologist ________.

According to Cloward and Ohlin, what is the underlying cause of deviance and delinquency in unstable slums of a city?

Inner and outer controls that work against our tendencies to deviate is known as what theory?

In which of the following societies might slavery most likely exist?

The sociologist who believed that social class is made up of three components - property, power, and prestige - was ________.

The spread of an economic system based on investing to make profits, which is becoming the world's dominant economic system, is referred to as ________.

What is the relationship between births to single women and their level of education?

Janelle is a professor in the Department of Business at a state university. She is a full professor in her department and earns $135,000 a year. According to Lenski's status inconsistency hypothesis, what is Janelle's most likely political philosophy?

What does status inconsistency refer to in relation to social stratification?

What is the basis of India's caste system?

Based on the global stratification model, nations of the former Soviet Union and its former satellites in Eastern Europe are classified as ________.

What political party are members of the upper class more likely to belong?

As a full professor of sociology, Jackie ranks high in prestige, but relatively low in income. What can one expect of her political views?

Marketing, sales, and production positions are considered _________ that lead(s) to the top of a company.

Why do sociologists classify females as a minority group?

The age range of women most likely to be victims of rape is ________.

Felix tends goats in Peru, while his wife, Maria, takes care of the family crops. John is a nurse in France and his wife, Sonia, is a midwife. Based on cross-cultural studies, whose work would be given more prestige in their respective societies?

Dominance behavior, such as winning a game, produce higher levels of __________.

Sociologically, why is gender especially significant?

In 1890, women made up about ________ of the U.S. labor force. Today, they represent almost ________.

In his study of sex typing and work, ________ was the one occupation considered to be "men's work" in all the societies examined by George Murdock.

Which wave of the women's movement focused on the problems of women in the Least Industrialized Nations?

George Murdock discovered that only a few jobs were consistently male-dominated in his study of 324 societies around the world. He considered all of the following as male-dominated jobs EXCEPT for ________.

Based on the most recent research, why are race and ethnicity often factors in medical decisions that favor treatment for white patients?

The group in society made up of the unemployed who can be put to work during times of high production and then laid off when they are no longer needed is called ________.

Which phrase best describes Miss Rivers' Lodge?

What is the largest minority group in the United States today?

In American history, who were the white ethnics?

Who developed the theory of prejudice that addressed frustration levels and scapegoats?

For the last five years, Sarah has been trying to recover her ethnic heritage by tracing her family line. This attempt to trace her family line is an example of ________.

Ashley Montagu, a physical anthropologist, classified humans into ________ different racial groups.

To which ethnic heritage do more Caucasians in America trace their roots than any other?

What is a group of people with inherited physical characteristics that distinguish it from another group?

Generally speaking, in which families would elders play the most active role in rearing their grandchildren?

Bertha has just turned 16 and has caught the special interest of her father because she looks just as attractive and sexy as her mother did when they first dated. Bertha's mother has noticed this and now feels like a maid, not a wife and mother. What do sociologists call this condition of a father seeing his daughter as a possible sexual interest, and a wife feeling as though she is a maid, rather than a wife and mother?

What is the sandwich generation?

The percentage of married U.S. women who have never given birth is the lowest among which ethnic or racial group?

Shacking up or living in sin are old-fashioned ways to describe ________.

Asian American families are more likely to adopt the practice of ________, which is the Confucian value meaning each member of a family owes respect to other family members.

How has the rate of cohabitation changed over the past 30 years?

Edgar and Jayne are a couple in their 40s. They are busy raising a family of three children. They also spend considerable time each week at their parents' homes doing yard maintenance and running errands for their parents. Edgar and Jayne are members of the ________ generation.

Of the following, in which group is a woman more likely to marry a man with less education than she has?

It is still customary in U.S. society for a bride to accept her husband's last name and for the bride's family to pay for the wedding. What is the line of authority this represents?