Which of the following is a group of key elements of Max Weber’s model of class?
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Bourgeoisie and proletariat
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Class, status, and power
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Socialist revolution
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Blue-collar and white-collar occupations
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Which of the following is a group of key elements of Max Weber’s model of class?
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Bourgeoisie and proletariat
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Class, status, and power
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Socialist revolution
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Blue-collar and white-collar occupations
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Which of the following is a key principle of feminism?
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Support for social equality for women and men
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Violence against men
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Promoting equality for women at the expense of men
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Support for stricter laws regarding sexuality and reproduction
3
Which of the following is one of the major functions of religion identified by sociologist Emile Durkheim?
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Providing a sense of purpose and meaning
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Controlling behavior by promoting certain norms
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Creating cohesion through community and shared experience
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All of the answer choices are correct.
4
As more and more women enter the workforce, unwanted sexual advances in the workplace have increased.
These advances are called __________.
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sexism
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sexual harassment
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anti-feminism
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gender inequality
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Which of the following sociologists identified the trend in which technological advances first increase stratification, then reduce it?
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Simon Kuznets
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Max Weber
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Karl Marx
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Davis and Moore
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Which of the following is an example of institutional discrimination?
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A business monitoring performances
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The school segregation doctrine of "separate but equal"
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The federal government healthcare reform
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Which of the following statements is NOT consistent with Immanuel Wallerstein’s model of the capitalist world economy?
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The world economy makes poor nations dependent on rich nations.
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The periphery of the global economy is where low-income countries reside.
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The core of the global economy consists of low-income countries.
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The roots of the global economy can be traced back to the beginning of colonization.
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A __________ typically features a powerful leader who introduces followers to a new way of life.
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denomination
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sect
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cult
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church
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Socially-constructed responsibilities assigned to a gender are called __________.
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gender roles
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assimilation
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stereotype
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Which of the following is the sociological term for a transformation in the social standing of large numbers of people due to changes in society (e.g. expansion of industry and government)?
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Status consistency
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Social mobility
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Structural social mobility
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Meritocracy
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Pakistan and Nigeria are examples of which of the following?
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High-income countries
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Low-income countries
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Core countries
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Middle-income countries
12
__________ poverty is a form of poverty in which people are considered poor in comparison to other people.
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Feminine
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Absolute
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Relative
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Functional
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The process by which some nations enrich themselves through political and economic control of other nations is called __________.
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global stratification
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colonialism
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human trafficking
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neocolonialism
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A form of slavery that involves relocating people from one place to another and forcing them to work is called __________.
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chattel slavery
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debt bondage
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human trafficking
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child slavery
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Jack drives a luxury vehicle and only wears expensive suits.
Jack demonstrates what sociologists call __________: buying and using products and services to display one’s wealth and social standing.
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meritocracy
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conspicuous consumption
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capitalism
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prestige
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While researching income data from the US Census, Katie finds that the median income for African American women who work full-time is 84% of what white women who work full-time earn. Similarly, Hispanic women earn about 72% of the full-time income of white women.
To explain the data, Katie applies __________, an analysis of how race, class, and gender combine to produce hardship.
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gender roles
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social inequality
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gender stratification
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intersectionality
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Historically, India has been an example of which type of society?
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Meritocracy
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Apartheid
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Open society or class system
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Closed society or caste system
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In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the Supreme Court decided that __________ in public schooling is unconstitutional.
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miscegenation
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apartheid
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pluralism
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segregation
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A nation that has just begun to shift toward individualism, a desire for material wealth, and a market economy is at which of Rostow’s stages of modernization?
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Traditional stage
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Drive to technological maturity
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Preconditions for take-off
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Take-off stage
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Which of the following describes the Davis Moore Thesis?
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All societies have experienced social stratification of some kind.
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Social stratification will decrease (or vanish) when a society reaches the period of post-industrialism.
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Social stratification decreases as technological advances occur.
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Which of the following correctly describes Native Americans?
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Americans who trace their ancestry to Spanish-speaking Latin American countries
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None of the answer choices are correct.
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Americans who trace their ancestry to the original inhabitants of North and Central America
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Americans who trace their ancestry to Africa
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Which of the following describes prejudice?
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A group that is different from the dominant majority
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Stereotypes put into action
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Negative attitudes towards immigrants
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A white man blames the low pay he earns at his factory job on the presence of a large number of minority coworkers.
This example demonstrates which of the following theories of prejudice?
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Scapegoat theory
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Culture theory
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Authoritarian personality theory
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Conflict theory
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