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 |
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· 200 million |
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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 |
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· All of the above |
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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 |
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· All of the above |
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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” |
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Claims that rich nations are to blame for global poverty |
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. 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 |
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All of the above |
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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 |
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All of the above |
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9. What share of married U.S. couples depend on two incomes?
· Very few
· More than half
· All
· None |
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· More than half |
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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 |
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Increased men’s domination of women |
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. Which of the following job categories has mostly women as workers?
· Physicians
· Corporate managers
· Stone mason · Elementary school teachers |
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Elementary school teachers |
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12. Friedrich Engels claimed that expanding capitalism tends to turn women into:
· Nurses and teachers
· Capitalists
· Consumers
· The owners of surplus labor |
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Consumers |
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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 |
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· A mother wants her child to stay away from a child of a different race |
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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 |
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· Segregation |
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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 |
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Non-WASPs of European ancestry |
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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
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Frustration among people who are themselves disadvantaged |
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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 |
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cultural values including achievement and self-reliance |
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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 |
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Birth; achievement |
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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 |
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· Lower-upper |
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22. In terms of race, two-thirds of all poor people in the United States are:
· African-American
· Asian-American
· Hispanic
· White |
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· Hispanic |
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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 |
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· Too few available jobs |
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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. |
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passing land and other property from a father to the oldest son or other male relation. |
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Durkheim's greatest concern about modern societies was the increase in:
· anomie
· personal choice
· productive specialization
· personal privacy |
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anomie |
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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 |
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rigid conformity to traditional ways of life |
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. 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 |
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· All of the above |
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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 |
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· Came to us from other cultures |
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