SOCI 111 QUIZ 4
SOCI QUIZ 4
Answer Key
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Question 1 (Worth 1 points)
Sociologically, why is gender especially significant?
It is a master status cutting across a
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SOCI 111 QUIZ 4
SOCI QUIZ 4
Answer Key
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Question 1 (Worth 1 points)
Sociologically, why is gender especially significant?
It is a master status cutting across all aspects of life.
It permits a comparison to superior male qualities.
It provides one group to lead, another to follow.
It reinforces the teachings of Genesis
Points earned on this question: 1
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Question 2 (Worth 1 points)
Which statement is least accurate regarding sex and gender?
There is unequal access to power, prestige, and property based on one's sex.
Being born male or female carries images and expectations on how one should act
Gender is sociologically significant because it is how society controls its members
The terms sex and gender are sociologically and biologically interchangeable
Points earned on this question: 1
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Question 3 (Worth 1 points)
Jeanann and her two children are on welfare. Research indicates that it is likely that Jeanann and her children will be in poverty for ________.
at least five or six years
until both children are 18 years of age
a year or less
between eight and ten years
Points earned on this question: 1
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Question 4 (Worth 1 points)
What is the significant difference between the class system and the systems of slavery, caste and estate?
The class system is not based on religion.
The class system has fluid boundaries.
The class system only works in democracies.
The class system existed before the other three
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Question 5 (Worth 1 points)
A system of beliefs that justifies a particular social arrangement such as slavery is called
a constitution
class consciousness
a theory
an ideology
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Question 6 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following statements is most accurate in respect to determining social prestige in modern society?
Social prestige is based primarily on the wealth one accumulates.
One's occupational title is the greatest influence in determining social prestige
Together wealth and power are the determining factors of social prestige
Family lineage is the primary determinant of social prestige
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Question 7 (Worth 1 points)
Of the following methods, which would be the best way to preserve a stratification system?
Demonstrating violation of law through public punishment.
Establishing a well trained and highly armed police force
Controlling ideas, information, technology and social networks through ideology
Brute force and coercion to keep dissidents in their place.
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Question 8 (Worth 1 points)
Why do sociologists classify females as a minority group?
Women are out numbered by men in virtually every society
Women are not as physically strong as men
Men perform the most difficult and dangerous work in most societies.
Women are discriminated against because of their physical characteristics.
Points earned on this question: 1
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Question 9 (Worth 1 points)
The theory that explains how global stratification developed that includes core nations, periphery nations, semi-periphery nations, and external areas is ________ theory.
dependency
culture of poverty
colonialization
world system
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Question 10 (Worth 1 points)
What is the relationship between one's social class and their chances of being a victim of crime?
positive
direct
inverse
null
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Question 11 (Worth 1 points)
Phil, a janitor for an expensive apartment-house complex in Chicago, is a union janitor who makes quite a bit more money than many of the tenants in the building he maintains. Lenski would note that Phil's high income but low occupational prestige demonstrates a condition of ________.
status insecurity
status contradiction
status inconsistency
status incompatibility
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Question 12 (Worth 1 points)
What did the research by Kohn suggest as being the primary influence upon parents that they emphasized how they reared their children?
the net worth of the family
the race or ethnicity of the family
where the family lived
the parents' occupations
Points earned on this question: 1
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Question 13 (Worth 1 points)
Which of the following statements best describes how feminists view sexual harassment?
It is a fundamental difference in how men and women think.
It is based on the social process that guides society.
It is based on the structural problems embedded in society.
It is caused by the biological differences between men and women
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Question 14 (Worth 1 points)
What is Durkheim's term for a condition in which people become detached from the norms that guide their behavior?
compurgation
primogeniture
negative affective state
anomie
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Question 15 (Worth 1 points)
To what do sociologists compare the conversations between a man and a woman?
an employer and employee
social equals
two children
a husband and wife
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Question 16 (Worth 1 points)
In which of the following societies would slavery be most likely to exist?
pastoral society
agricultural society
industrial society
post industrial society
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Question 17 (Worth 1 points)
In both England and the United States, what percentage of the population is occupied by the elite upper class?
one percent
three percent
five percent
ten percent
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Question 18 (Worth 1 points)
What are the three variables Max Weber identified as defining social class?
ethnicity, race, sex
wealth, power, prestige
sex, power, education
occupation, neighborhood, wealth
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Question 19 (Worth 1 points)
What is the strongest variable in developing correlations to which social groups are in poverty
geographic location
race/ethnicity
sex
education
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Question 20 (Worth 1 points)
Sally is employed as a computer programmer for the Ellis Corporation. She has a savings account of $15,000 and owns a few shares of Ellis stock. She thinks of herself as an investor rather than as a worker. Marx would maintain that Sally has experienced ________.
false class consciousness
misplaced commitment
a management ideology
the Hawthorne Effect
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Question 21 (Worth 1 points)
In every society from the hunting and gathering society to the post industrial society, what has been the most common basis for social stratification?
race
income
level of education
gender
This is a correct answer
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Question 22 (Worth 1 points)
What is Cynthia Fuchs Epstein's basic argument to explain what determines the type of work performed by men and women in each society?
It is based on biology and climate
It is a product of socialization and social control
Motivation and aspirations are the determining factors.
Status and wealth determine who does specific work
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Question 23 (Worth 1 points)
The control of the Least Industrialized Nations by the Industrialized Nations through debts owed to them is referred to as ________.
imperialism
neocolonialism
modernization
capitalism
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Question 24 (Worth 1 points)
When used by sociologists, the term "wealth," refers to ________.
only the property that a person owns
only the income made from a person's occupation
both property owned and income made by the person less debts
income after state and federal taxes have been withheld
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Question 25 (Worth 1 points)
Eric Wright revised Marx's concept of social classes by regarding some people as simultaneously occupying more than one class. He termed their positions in the class structure ________.
status inconsistency
contradictory class locations
status incompatibility
class ambiguity
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