University of the PeopleAY 2021 Sophia. Sociology Final MILESTONE. Score 23/25. Includes the CONCEPTS

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21/09/2020 Sophia :: Welcome Score 23/25 You passed this Milestone 23 questions were answered correctly. MILESTONE 2 questions were answered incorrectly. 1 Which of the following societies has ... the highest degree of social mobility? Societies with the class system Societies with the caste system Pre-industrial societies Closed societies CONCEPT Social Stratification 2 Which of the following theories argues that certain people hold more prejudiced beliefs than others because of their inflexible personalities? Culture theory Authoritarian personality theoryConflict theory Scapegoat theory CONCEPT Theories of Inequality in Race 3 Which of the following statements is true of Jane Addams and her work? She was the first female sociologist. She fought for women's right to education. Both of the answer choices are correct. Neither of the answer choices is correct. CONCEPT Gender Conflict Theory 4 Sociologist Richard Gelles made which of the following arguments about the family? The family is the most violent institution in society. The family is the fundamental source of inequality in society. The family is the bedrock of society. Divorce occurs at a higher rate, and is more troubling, in the United States than in any other country. CONCEPT Family Violence5 The tendency for people to behave in social settings as if they were actors in a play is called which of the following? Dramaturgical analysis Thomas Theorem Looking-glass self Ethnomethodology CONCEPT Goffman's Dramaturgical Analysis 6 Which of the following ratios can be inferred from a population pyramid? The ratio of young people (0-20 years old) to old people (50 years old and older) in society The ratio of males to females in a society (i.e., the sex ratio) The ratio of old men (50 years old and older) to young men (0-20 years old) in society All of the answer choices are correct. CONCEPT Malthusian Theory and Demographic Transition Theory 7 Which of the following is an example of a community-based correction? ParoleRetribution Death penalty Societal protection CONCEPT Societal Protection 8 Which of the following is a computer technology? Smart phones Laptops Computer-guided missiles and drones All of the answer choices are correct. CONCEPT Technology 9 The argument that those who challenge the capitalist system will be controlled by the criminal justice system illustrates which of the following theories of crime and deviance? Labeling theory Control theory Conflict theory Differential association theoryCONCEPT Conflict Theory and Deviance 10 Which of the following is a process that consists of four stages: hunting and gathering, horticulture and pastoralism, agriculture, and industry? Social organization Post-industrialism Technology Eurocentrism CONCEPT Lenski's Five Types of Society 11 In a __________, the political power of the ruling class increases as it ages. gerontology bilateral descent gerontocracy ageism CONCEPT Socialization: The Life Course 12 Which of the following was a key finding of Solomon Asch's research? People are less likely to conform in a small group.People will compromise their personal beliefs to fit in with a group. People will adjust to their environment. People will readily inflict pain on another person if there is group pressure to do so. CONCEPT Group Conformity Studies 13 Which of the following was one of researcher Philip Zimbardo’s key findings in the Stanford Prison Experiment? The guards who participated in the experiment had aggressive personalities. Research has the potential to harm the physical and mental well-being of participants. Research does not impact the physical and mental well-being of participants. The prisoners who participated in the experiment had aggressive personalities. CONCEPT Informed Consent and the Stanford Prison Experiment 14 Classmates Jenna and Damion discuss some of the topics that have come up in their sociology course. Jenna says, (A) "__________ is a problem in the United States, because there are too many people living in shelters and on the streets." Damion replies, "That's true, but the best way to deal with the problem is through trickle-down economics and (B) __________ — giving tax breaks to corporations so that they will create jobs." (A) Relative poverty, (B) individual welfare (A) Homelessness, (B) corporate welfare(A) Homelessness, (B) individual welfare (A) Functional poverty, (B) corporate welfare CONCEPT Poverty, Welfare and Power 15 According to __________, technological development and market forces drive economic inequality. the Davis Moore Thesis the Kuznets curve dependency theory CONCEPT Kuznets Curve 16 Jeremy and Christina are a couple in their twenties who live in New York City. They move in together to reduce the cost of living in such an expensive city. Previously, they paid high rents to live in separate studio apartments. Together, Jeremy and Christina are an example of which of the following? Cohabitation Economic independence A blended family A unit of economic cooperation CONCEPT Divorce, Blended Families, and Cohabitation 17In which of the following examples has the global perspective been used? Comparing how siblings interact when being punished Studying how economic structures in different countries affect the lives of the people who live in those countries Studying the social structures that shape life in the United States Looking at a narrow aspect of society CONCEPT Sociology and Sociological and Global Perspectives Defined 18 According to Rostow's stages of modernization, in which stage do luxuries become necessities to most of society? Stage of highly-advanced technology Traditional stage Take-off stage Stage of mass consumption CONCEPT Modernization and Dependency Theory 19 Francisco is a social studies teacher at a high school in Chicago. He tries to make his lessons interesting for his students. Although some of them value his lessons, most students don't care about social studies. They would rather be somewhere else. Most of Francisco's students illustrate which of the following school problems?Grade inflation Student passivity Functional illiteracy Tracking CONCEPT School Problems 20 Which of the following sociologists argued that sociological research should examine the subjective or interpretive meaning of human behavior? Emile Durkheim Robert Merton Karl Marx Max Weber CONCEPT Qualitative Research 21 Marx's term for those who control the means of production is __________. proletarians capitalists socialistsalienators CONCEPT Marx and Class Conflict 22 Which of the following statements accurately defines urban ecology? Cities have displaced the natural ecology. Cities are ecosystems in which meaningful interactions between people and the environment occur. Cities cannot be understood in ecological terms. None of the answer choices are correct. CONCEPT Louis Wirth and Urban Ecology 23 Which of the following is NOT part of due process in the United States? A right to know the charges against you A right to be granted parole A right to an attorney A right to a trial CONCEPT Justice System and Punishment 24 Which of the following are the components that form the sociological imagination?History Biography Social structure All of the answer choices are correct. CONCEPT The Sociological Imagination 25 Which of the following statements about cultural relativism is FALSE? It requires judgment of a culture according to its own standards. It requires openness to unfamiliar values and norms. It asserts that moral standards vary from society to society. It requires judgment of other cultures according to the standards of our own culture. CONCEPT Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism [Show More]

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