The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports _____ who experience high levels of social rejection are eight times more likely to have attempted suicide. - ANSWER homosexual youths
For ______, there are both ideologica
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The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports _____ who experience high levels of social rejection are eight times more likely to have attempted suicide. - ANSWER homosexual youths
For ______, there are both ideological and economic dimensions to the debate over same-sex marriage. - ANSWER Conflict Theorists
Interactionists use the phrase "______" to refer to an individual's performance of tasks and/or display of characteristics that are consistent with the gender role that has been assigned to her/him. - ANSWER doing gender
Cross-cultural studies reveal that children are aware of gender roles by age ____. - ANSWER two or three
Functionalists believe that _____ would be dysfunctional for a society if it was the orientation of most of its members. - ANSWER homosexuality
As explained by Dr. Whitaker in one of this week's video lectures, the term "_____" refers to selecting a mate within your own social (religious, ethnic, socioeconomic, etc.) group. - ANSWER endogamy
According to Dr. Whitaker in one of her video lectures for this week, friendships differ from romantic relationships in: - ANSWER Degree of exclusivity
Degree of emotional intensity
Stringency of standards of conduct
Among the couple styles described by Dr. Whitaker in one of this week's video lectures, the most popular style is the _____ style. - ANSWER complimentary
As explained by Dr. Whitaker in one of this week's video lectures, first-year college students form friendships on the basis of: - ANSWER Availability
Degree of shyness/outgoingness of the individuals involved
Residential proximity
As Sean explained in his interview with Dr. Whitaker, _______ persons are individuals whose gender identity - the gender they feel they are - matches the gender they were assigned at birth. - ANSWER cisgender
In the video, "Consent on Campus: A Nightline Event", a participant in the discussion noted that the clearest, easiest way to get consent is to: - ANSWER get consent verbally
According to the video "Love, Lust and Marriage: Why We Stay and Why We Stray", a baby constitutes "____" for a family because the baby is connected to society through both sets of kinsmen - the mother's side and the father's side - who all have a stake in that child. - ANSWER Social capital
Intersex children are children who: - ANSWER Are born with both male and female genitalia
In the video, "Consent on Campus: A Nightline Event", when talking about alcohol consumption and consent to have sex, participants in the discussion noted that if a woman is tipsy, she: - ANSWER Is not capable of giving consent
As explained in the video "Growing Up Trans", there is a growing consensus among professionals in the field that the more intense gender dysphoria is in childhood, _____. - ANSWER The more likely it is to persist
According to the Functionalists, one of the latent functions of the U.S. education system is _____. - ANSWER it introduces students to useful social networks
According to the author of "Against School," the two groups of people who can be convinced to buy stuff they don't really need are children and ______. - ANSWER addicts
According to "Against School," the "diagnostic" or "directive" function of public education is to: - ANSWER determine what type of role each is best suited for
Some medical conditions are "______", meaning there is disagreement within the medical profession about whether or not certain conditions are "illnesses". - ANSWER contestable
According to "Against School," the "adaptive" or "adjustive" function of public education is to: - ANSWER get students to obey authority figures unquestioningly
"______" is the contracting of a job or set of jobs to an outside source. - ANSWER Outsourcing
The Bureau of Labor Statistics defines the "_____" as those who have spent at least 27 weeks working or looking for work but still remain below the poverty line. - ANSWER working poor
The ______ element of workplace culture refers to the fact that each workplace may also have rules, either formal or informal, about the types of relationships that employees are and aren't allowed to have with clients, or customers. - ANSWER Client-relationship norms
The ___________ element of workplace culture refers to the fact that employees within each workplace use some words or phrases that are unique to their organization or to specific tasks, types of work, types of employees, types of customers, or types of routine processes within the organization. - ANSWER vocabulary
The ______ element of workplace culture refers to the fact that _____ is a given in all organizations, regardless of size; though companies will vary in the extent to which work is done through teams, and about the usual makeup of teams - number of members, how decisions are made about who does what, etc. [Single word fills both blanks.] - ANSWER Teamwork
The _______ aspect of workplace culture refers to the organization's dress code, including standards for all employees' hair, makeup, shoe types, clothing and uniforms, jewelry, and so on. - ANSWER Appearance standards
As explained by Christina Scribner in her interview with Dr. Whitaker, ______ have the highest vulnerability to eating disorders. - ANSWER Adolescent females
In the video, "Building Your Personal Brand", Sadhana Smiles explained that having a personal brand is good for your career because: - ANSWER If a person has a good experience interacting with you, he/she is then more likely to recommend you to other people
As noted in the video, "Breaking Point: Heroin in America," the vast majority of people who die from drug use have been using _____ and/or heroin. - ANSWER Prescription pain medication
As explained by Christina Scribner in her interview with Dr. Whitaker, clinically-defined eating disorders include _____. - ANSWER anorexia nervosa
bulimia nervosa
binge eating disorder
Upon analyzing the results of his conformity experiments, Asch concluded there were two main causes of conformity: (1) people believe their group members are better informed than they are and (2) people are ______. - ANSWER conforming because they want the other group members to like them
_____ deviance consists of departures from the norm that are approved of, and/or applauded, by society's members. - ANSWER Good
The means of enforcing rules are known as _____. - ANSWER sanctions
According to _____ theory, what is considered deviant is determined by the reactions of others to an individual's actions. - ANSWER labeling
People comply with _____ authority because they are invested in the past and feel obligated to perpetuate it. - ANSWER traditional
_____ deviance consists of words and/or actions that depart from society's norms in a way that is disapproved of by society's members. - ANSWER Bad
_____ is a taint, a stain applied to an individual or his/her character, on the basis of some act(s) of wrongdoing, unwholesome lifestyle or radical departure of his/her person or presentation-of-self from what society considers physically or psychologically "normal." - ANSWER stigma
Techniques of _____ such as "condemnation of the condemners" can be used to either legitimate a future rule violation or justify a just-committed violation. - ANSWER neutralization
According to the functionalists, deviance performs a(n) _______ or rule-reinforcing function for society. - ANSWER boundary maintenance
After-the-fact rationalizations of rulebreaking behavior are known as _____. - ANSWER accounts
The practice of creating groups with specific subcultures within a workplace is called: - ANSWER Occupational socialization
_______ refers to techniques "the discredited" can use - for example, joking about their deviance with non-deviants - to suggest they are not so different from 'normal' persons and thus, can be treated as normal for all intents and purposes. - ANSWER deviance avowal
Individuals who use the _____ form of accounts to rationalize their behavior are acknowledging they violated the rules deliberately, while claiming special circumstances existed at the time which made their actions legitimate. - ANSWER justifications
Leaders who are born in to positions of power are considered: - ANSWER Members of a monarchy or influential family
During periods of rapid social change, when it is no longer clear to the average citizen what the rules are, or when it seems the rules have been suspended, the society can be said to be in a state of _____. - ANSWER anomie
(A/an) _____ is a purposeful, organized group of people who strive to work toward a common social goal. - ANSWER Social movement
Sociologists have developed the concept of ____ to explain how individuals identify and understand social norms and which norms they should follow in any given situation. - ANSWER Framing
Use of social media is a _____ phenomenon. - ANSWER Weak-tie
________ movements are focused on each individual's self-improvement and limited, specific changes to individual beliefs and behavior. - ANSWER Alternative
_____ theory that revolves around understanding movements as the they relate to politics, identity, culture and social change. - ANSWER New social movement
________ movements are focused on provoking inner change or spiritual growth in individuals. - ANSWER Religious/ Redemptive
According to _____ theory, people perceive and respond to a crowd situation with their own particular (individual) set of norms, which may change as the crowd experience evolves. - ANSWER Emergent norm
_______ are located at the social-structural level of society and are thus problems within major social institutions. - ANSWER social problems
According to the information presented in the video, "How People Power Generates Change", in order to motivate people to join your social movement, you need to _____. - ANSWER Give them a sense of the values you and they share as a community
(A) _______ is a more organized and stable type of group than is (a) _______. - ANSWER social movement, collective behavior
According to the information presented in the video, "How People Power Generates Change", if you want to organize a social movement, the first question you have to ask yourself is '_____?' - ANSWER Who are my people?
The social change process begins when a subset of the society's members interact and decide a problem exists, such that "________." - ANSWER something has to be done
In the video, "Online Social Change: Easy to Organize, Hard to Win", sociologist Zeynep Tufekci notes an important difference between today's social movements, which are organized through social media, and social movements that were built before the invention of computers and social media. That difference is: - ANSWER Movements previously had to rely on face to face interaction and printed messages to build their base and organize their activities, but this gave them a viable structure that today's movements, organized through social media, do not have
________ are problems that have to do with the individual and his/her immediate milieu. - ANSWER personal problems
In the video, "Online Social Change: Easy to Organize, Hard to Win", sociologist Zeynep Tufekci notes that what enables movements to succeed is their members' capacity to: - ANSWER Figure out how to take steps politically and relate them to leverage
Develop strong policy proposals
Think collectively, create consensus
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