SOHPIA INTRO TO SOCIOLOGY UNIT 5 MILESTONE 5

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SOHPIA INTRO TO SOCIOLOGY UNIT 5 MILESTONE 5 1 The I-PAT equation measures the impact of human activity on the environment. Why do small changes in one variable in the equation (e.g. technology, p... opulation, or affluence) have a big impact on the environment? CONCEPT Environmental Concepts 2 Which of the following is a computer technology? CONCEPT Technology 3 Which of the following sociologists argued that people who live in cities lack the support that comes from close, primary-group ties? • CONCEPT Louis Wirth and Urban Ecology 4 Pam tells her husband about everything their daughter is learning in school. "She is learning Microsoft Excel and Word, and there is even a class on online safety." Pam's husband laughs and says, "We were never taught anything like that when we were in school. The world is changing." This conversation illustrates which of the following aspects of the American education system? CONCEPT Education and Schooling 5 Which of the following is a correct pairing? groups CONCEPT Sociological Understanding of the Environment 6 Social epidemiology is the study of how good and bad health are distributed in a population. Which of the following is NOT identified by sociologists as a cause of different health outcomes for individuals? CONCEPT Health 7 Which of the following statements about social change is true? CONCEPT Individuals and Modernity 8 Which of the following societies lacked cities? CONCEPT Global Population 9 Which of the following is a correct pairing? CONCEPT US Cities 10 Lee belongs to a group that is upset about the importance of money in society. Lee and her group believe that money has no value unless we agree that it does. They want to abolish the use of money, so that goods and services can distributed without money being involved. Lee and her group belong to which of the following social movements? CONCEPT Social Movements 11 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? CONCEPT School Problems 12 Amy analyzes recent trends in birth and death rates in low-income countries. This type of population study is called __________. CONCEPT Population Growth 13 __________ theory argues that people turn to social movements to find purpose in an impersonal society. CONCEPT Social Movement Theories 14 In a well-known experiment on stereotyping and discrimination, teacher Jane Elliott divided her students into groups based on eye color. Next, she told the students that people who have a particular eye color are superior to those who do not have it. She found that students in the group she labeled as "superior" performed better in the classroom. Those in the group labeled "inferior" performed poorly. The dependent relationship between student performance and group assignment is an example of __________. CONCEPT Jane Elliot and Jonathan Kozol 15 One of the reasons why American schools are important is that they teach children about American culture. School shapes us so that, as adults, we all understand and participate in the same culture. This illustrates which of the following functions of schooling? CONCEPT Functions of Schooling 16 According to Ferdinand Tonnies, __________ refers to a society that is strongly focused on individualism. CONCEPT Ferdinand Tonnies 17 Which of the following ratios can be inferred from a population pyramid? • CONCEPT Malthusian Theory and Demographic Transition Theory [Show More]

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