Sociology Unit 3 EXam (Well explained answers)

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1. Define basic principles of social stratification 2. What sort of social mobility is possible in a caste system? 3. What Criteria is used in a social class system 4. What system of stratification... is commonly used in capitalist societies? 5. What is the relationship between social class and race, ethnicity, gender and age in the United States today? 6. What do most Americans claim about their social class? 7. Outline the characteristics of the various social classes in America 8. Who are the Upper class in the United States? 9. What is Status Inconsistency? 10. According to Karl Marx, what social relations matter in a capitalist system? 11. Give the Comparison of Marx and Weber on social class 12. What is Cultural capital? 13. What school of thought insists that all social structures, including systems of social stratification, are built out of everyday interactions? 14. What is Class consciousness? 15. Define Homogamy 16. State the Findings of Duncan’s study. 17. Why don’t lower class members exercise more often? 18. What is closed system of stratification? 19. Define Intergenerational/intergenerational/vertical/horizontal /structural mobility 20. What is Social mobility? 21. Define Absolute/relative deprivation 22. How has the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 changed the live of the poor? 23. Define Meritocracy 24. Just-world hypothesis 25. What effect of zoning rules is on residential segregation? 26. What is Redlining? 27. How do law enforcement policies make the poor less visible? 28. What is the relationship between the American Dream and the system of social class through which the United States is stratified? 29. What are Gan's functions of poverty-Lecture? 30. What has modern science determined about racial categories? 31. How do sociologists define race and ethnicity? 32. Define Social Construction of Race. 33. What is symbolic ethnicity? 34. What is situational ethnicity? 35. Who are termed as a minority group? 36. What is Racism? 37. What is Prejudice? 38. Define discrimination 39. Differentiate institutional and individual discrimination 40. What is the goal of affirmative action? 41. According to conflict theory, what is the real source of racism? 42. What are the Effects of a split labour market? 43. What is racial passing? 44. The fact that so many people are asked”What are you? In reference to their race is evidence of what? 45. Outline the Identity challenges 46. Why are poor women less likely to marry? 47. Why are interracial relationships still relatively uncommon? 48. Why are there differences in life expectancies for people of different races? 49. State four Factors that might cause dropping out of high school. 50. Define Genocide 51. What is internal colonialism? 52. What is Segregation? 53. What is Population Transfer? 54. Define Assimilation 55. Describe racial assimilation 56. Define Cultural assimilation 57. What is Pluralism? 58. What is human sexual dimorphism? 59. Who are Essentialists? 60. How do sex and gender differentiate? 61. What is Patriarchy? 62. What do functionalists generally be true of gender? 63. According to conflict theory, why are women’s contributions to family life devalued? 64. What is the Symbolic Interactionist view of family? 65. Beginning of gender role socialization 66. What is the process of learning behaviour and meanings through social interaction called? 67. Feminization of poverty 68. What is the relationship between language and culture? 69. What do we mean by double standard principle? 70. Describe Feminism 71. Give the Characteristic of the three waves of feminism 72. Who are men's rights movement? 73. Define Homophobia 74. What does it mean by "hooking up”? 75. What are instrumental and expressive roles? 76. How are boys and girls treated in school and socialized in to gender roles? 77. How are sex roles portrayed in the media? 78. Who are described as the "second shift" workers? 79. What is the difference between Sexist and Racist language? 80. Describe the Crisis of Masculinity [Show More]

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