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1. The organization Anti-Slavery International estimates that about how many men, women, and children live today in conditions that approximate slavery?

· 200,000

· 2 million

· 200 million

· 2 billion

· 200 million

2. Following modernization theory, what might rich nations do to assist poor nations that seek economic development?

· Help poor nations to control their population

· Increase food production in poor nations

· Introduce advanced technology to poor nations

· All of the above

· All of the above

4. Poor countries are characterized by:

· Limited energy resources and little advanced techonology

· High levels of population increase

· Cultures that discourage change

· All of the above

· All of the above

5. With regard to the role of rich nations, dependency theory:

· Agrees with modernization theory

· Urges rich nations to invest in poor countries

· Claims that rich nations are to blame for global poverty

· Claims the rich nations prevent poor countries from “growing for export”

Claims that rich nations are to blame for global poverty

. Over the last century:

· Living standards rose in most of the world

· Rich nations gained wealth faster than poor nations

· The world’s food production went up

· All of the above

All of the above

8. Pornography is of concern to:

· Conservatives who oppose it on moral grounds

· Liberals who oppose it as demeaning to women

· All people who seek to protect free speech and artistic expression

· All of the above

All of the above

9. What share of married U.S. couples depend on two incomes?

· Very few

· More than half

· All

· None

· More than half

10. Friedrich Engels claimed that capitalism:

· Reduced all forms of social inequality

· Reduced men’s domination over women

· Had little change on men’s domination of women

· Increased men’s domination of women

Increased men’s domination of women

. Which of the following job categories has mostly women as workers?

· Physicians

· Corporate managers

· Stone mason · Elementary school teachers

Elementary school teachers

12. Friedrich Engels claimed that expanding capitalism tends to turn women into:

· Nurses and teachers

· Capitalists

· Consumers

· The owners of surplus labor

Consumers

13. Read the following four statements. Which of the statements is NOT an example of institutional discrimination?

· A mother wants her child to stay away from a child of a different race

· A bank usually refuses loans to people of a certain race

· A police dept promotes people of one race faster than those of another

· A school district segregates schools

· A mother wants her child to stay away from a child of a different race

14. The existence of the "Negro leagues" in professional baseball in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s is an example of:

· Assimilation

· Segregation

· Pluralism

· Miscegenation

· Segregation

15. The term "white ethnics" refers to:

· People of Hispanic ancestry who are light skinned

· People of any ethnicity who are light skinned

· Biracial or multiracial people

· Non-WASPs of European ancestry

Non-WASPs of European ancestry

17. Based on scapegoat theory, you would conclude that prejudice is caused by:

· Culture itself

· High levels of immigration

· Frustration among people who are themselves disadvantaged

· People with rigid personalities

Frustration among people who are themselves disadvantaged

18. The rate of small business ownership is high among Asian Americans. This pattern reflects:

· a history of facing little or no racial prejudice and discrimination

· a lack of formal schooling

· cultural values including achievement and self-reliance.

· All of the above

cultural values including achievement and self-reliance

20. While being in the upper-upper class is usually the result of __________, being in the lower-upper class is more often a matter of __________.

· Birth; achievement

· Business success; birth

· Making lots of money; who you know

· High-income; having lots of schooling

Birth; achievement

21. Popular author J. K. Rowling, who was once poor, has earned a fortune with her books. Rowling is a member of which social class?

· Upper-upper

· Lower-upper

· Upper-middle

· Middle

· Lower-upper

22. In terms of race, two-thirds of all poor people in the United States are:

· African-American

· Asian-American

· Hispanic

· White

· Hispanic

23. Sociologist William Julius Wilson suggests the cause of poverty lies in:

· A lower-class “culture of poverty”

· Lack of government action

· Too few available jobs

· Jobs moving overseas

· Too few available jobs

24. In English history, the concept "primogeniture" refers to:

· giving everyone in a family the same chance to own land.

· passing land and other property from a father to the oldest son or other male relation.

· ensuring that all children receive part of the parents' estate .

· the fact that nobles are often the "best" people.

passing land and other property from a father to the oldest son or other male relation.

Durkheim's greatest concern about modern societies was the increase in:

· anomie

· personal choice

· productive specialization

· personal privacy

anomie

26. David Riesman described "tradition-directed social character" as

· conformity to the latest fashions and fads

· rigid conformity to traditional ways of life

· being highly individualistic

· all of the above

rigid conformity to traditional ways of life

. Max Weber claimed that modernization was evident in which of the following?

· The rise of capitalism

· The rise of science

· The spread of bureaucracy

· All of the above

· All of the above

29. Ralph Linton made the point that many familiar elements in today's way of life:

· Came to us from other cultures

· Were all invented by members of our own society

· Were unknown even a few decades ago

· Were discovered completely by accident

· Came to us from other cultures