Question 1

which of the following statements is true concerning the domestic world of Ozzie and Harriet portrayed in the 1950s tv program?

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D. the program portrayed an idealized version of american family life in the 1950s

Question 2

a family consisting of a mother, father, and their biological children is known as a(n) ________ family.

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D. nuclear

Question 3

grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins who live together in a multigenerational household are considered a(n) __________ family

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B. extended

Question 4

when a society has rules that limit marital choices to people within their own social group, such as within their social class or religion, this is known as:

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A. endogamy

Question 5

if jerome is opposed to the idea of having a relationship with someone who lives in his dormitory, which he jokingly refers to as \"dorm-cest\", he is practicing the rule known as:

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A. exogamy

Question 6

In much of the Western world, the choice of a marriage partner tends to be influenced by age, education, class, race, and religion. Which of the following explains this tendency?

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C. Marrying someone who diverges a great deal from our age, race, social class, and religion is often met with overt or subtle disapproval from others.

Question 7

Which of the following trends is true in the Western world today?

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B. The proportion of women who choose not to have children is on the rise.

Question 8

Which of the following characterized the preindustrial family?

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A. Husbands and wives were partners, not only in making a home but also in making a living.

Question 9

Structural changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution had major consequences for families. What was one of the primary mechanisms that explains these consequences?

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C. It separated work and home and created new roles for men and women.

Question 10

Which of the following factors contributed to the development of the ideal of the traditional family (male breadwinner and female homemaker) in post-World War II America?

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b. an increase in real wages

Question 11

The domestic duties that still fall disproportionately on working women\'s shoulders are labeled by Hochschild (1989) as the:

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c. \"second shift.\"

Question 12

Recent trends indicate that weekly hours of housework done by men and women are converging. Which of the following statements indicates how household labor is divided by gender?

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c. Women do the housework and men help out.

Question 13

Broadly defined, education is:

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d. the processes through which academic, social, and cultural ideas and toolsâboth general and specificâare developed.

Question 14

Knowledge and skills that make someone more productive and bankable are known as:

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a. human capital.

Question 15

At 9:05 A.M., the bell rings and children file into their third-grade classroom. The first student to  sit at his or her deskâbook open and pencil ready to writeâwins a star for the day. The students love   this little bit of competition. This example of nonacademic socialization (which can teach students the   benefit of competition) is referred to, by sociologists, as the:

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C. hidden curriculum

Question 16

A paradox of the American education system is that education is:

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d. a social institution that reinforces existing social inequalities of race and ethnicity but equalizes opportunities for male and female students and for students of different socioeconomic backgrounds.

Question 17

Results from the Coleman Report were surprising because findings indicated that:

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a. achievement differences between schools could be explained best by family background and peers with whom children attended school.

Question 18

Social capital is:

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b. the collection of relationships that can facilitate the actions and behaviors of others.

Question 19

When classrooms are divided into ability levels, type of preparation, or according to future plans, it is called:

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C. tracking.

Question 20

One of the problems with credentialism is that more and more students (with their parents\' help)  are attempting to attend private schools or to be placed in the best tracks in their public school. This  may be one of the reasons that:

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B. parents are attempting to have their children accepted at the \"right\" day care, sometimes even before they are born.

Question 21

As more people obtain college degrees and it becomes unreasonable for students to stay in school for most of their young adulthood, what is one consequence?

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c. People will seek to differentiate themselves not only by having a degree but also by earning degrees from the most selective and prestigious colleges and universities.

Question 22

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in your text as a criticism of using the SAT as a college admissions criterion?

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c. The SAT does not predict college success well for older students who have been out of high school for some time; admission criteria need to be adjusted for adult students.

Question 23

What might be a reason that upper-status students score higher on SATs?

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d. Their parents are better able to obtain help for them, as in SAT prep courses and extra tutoring if they are doing poorly in school.

Question 24

Espenshade, Chung, and Walling (2004) studied admission to elite colleges and found that Group A was four times more likely to gain admission, and Group B was three times more likely to be admitted. Groups A and B are, respectively:

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c. athletes and legacy students.

Question 25

Which of the following statements is true with regard to preferential admissions to colleges and universities?

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a. In the last 15 years, admissions preference for athletes has risen steadily, surpassing that of minority students.

Question 26

Cultural capital refers to:

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d. social class-based skills and resources that people inherit and can use to their advantage.

Question 27

human capital

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refers to academic and other skills and knowledge

Question 28

social capital

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is the network you have that you can use to advance in society

Question 29

cultural capital

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is knowledge of class based resources, and the most important kind of cultural capital to have is upper middle class capital

Question 30

One of the major reasons that lower-status parents use more directives and teach their children to be more obedient than inquisitive is that they:

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b. tend to have jobs that require them to be obedient and they want their children to learn this.

Question 31

One of the major reasons Native Americans were placed in boarding schools for 60 years was:

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b. to socialize them to become \"civilized\" Americans.

Question 32

Which of the following is true?

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d. When social class characteristics are controlled for, test score gaps between black and white students shrink, black students have a higher high school graduation rate, and black students are less likely to be held back a grade.

Question 33

What effect did the agricultural revolution in Europe have on the transition to capitalism?

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b. It helped capitalism develop.

Question 34

Jenny lives in a society in which there is a strong norm against mixing business with pleasure. Work and leisure activities are physically separate, occurring at different times, on different days, at different places, and often with different people. Jenny lives in a ____________ society.

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b. modern capitalist

Question 35

How did the enclosure movement change the economy in the early Tudor period in England?

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c. It created a large, new pool of urban labor.

Question 36

You are the lord of an estate. During the enclosure movement in Tudor England, what did you likely do with some of your common land?

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b. kicked off the commoners who had used the land for grazing

Question 37

Marx described workers as being alienated from:

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A. the process of production. B. other people. C. themselves. D. all of the above.

Question 38

In addition to attracting new workers, Ford\'s \"family wage\":

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d. reinforced women\'s economic dependence at home.

Question 39

The money that working women earned was not expected to provide for a family. According to the textbook, what group did this assumption harm the most?

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c. black women

Question 40

According to sociologists Jerry Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson, because workers want to advance in their careers, many avoid taking full advantage of:

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d. family-friendly office policies.

Question 41

If one individual behaves in a socially inappropriate manner, he or she is considered deviant, but if several individuals behave this way, it is referred to as a:

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a. collective action

Question 42

Convergence theory states that collective action occurs when:

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a. people with similar ideas gather in the same place.

Question 43

A theory of collective action claiming that collective action arises because of people\'s tendency to conform to the behavior of others is ____________ theory.

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d. contagion

Question 44

Participating in \"the wave\" at a baseball game is an example of ____________ theory.

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a. contagion

Question 45

The collective action theory that emphasizes the influence of leaders in promoting particular norms is ____________ theory.

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b. emergent norm

Question 46

Which social movement model suggests that discontent and the availability of resources are the key factors that determine if a social movement will coalesce?

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d. resource mobilization

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