All questions from chapters 9, 10, and 15. Questions beginning with * are the ones our professor quizzed us on in class. Questions beginning with ++ are not in the book, but our professor told us we needed to know them.
An ideology
A doctrine
A dogma
A code of ethics
A philosophy
A minority
A race
An ethnic group
A subculture
A caste
The weight of current scientific evidence supports a connection between genetically determined physical characteristics and innate superiority or inferiority of certain races.
There is no scientific proof that races differ in there innate mental characteristics.
Recent reports attribute existing differences in measured IQ to racial differences rather than to the social environment.
Social scientists are now becoming more interested in biological races than in social races.
Social scientists have stopped doing research on what they consider a closed issue.
The melting pot
Anglo-conformity
Cultural pluralism
Accommodation
Population transfer
Stereotyping.
Prejudice.
Racism.
The ideal-type method.
Discrimination.
Racism.
Stereotyping.
Discrimination.
Prejudice.
Conflict perspective
Psychological perspective
Interactionist perspective
Functionalist perspective
Stereotyping.
Discrimination.
A self-fulfilling prophecy.
Agitation.
Anglo-conformity.
Subjugation.
Demographic transition.
Partition.
Population transfer.
Their median income is substantially below that of white households.
Their poverty rate is four times that of whites.
African American median family income decreased in the 1980's.
Less than one-third of African American men are employed in the highest occupational categories.
Young African American families hold less than one-fifth of the wealth of young white families.
Been consistently paternalistic.
Been consistently neglectful.
Vacillated between paternalism and neglect.
Attempted to unite the various tribes so they can help themselves.
Been based on the concept of workfare.
Possess superior intelligence.
Profit from illegal activities such as gambling and prostitution.
Refuse to work at jobs that do not pay well.
Embrace education as they key to success.
Place little value on human life.
Their willingness to work hard.
Their emphasis on family responsibility.
The high value they place on education.
The skills many Jewish immigrants brought with them.
Their easy assimilation into mainstream American society.
Secondary or peripheral
Core
Primary
Inferior
Malfunctioning
True
False
True
False
Distinctive physical or cultural characteristics
Smaller in number than the majority
Dominated by the majority
Denied equal treatment
A sense of collective identity
Gender; sex
Identity; role
Gender; gender identity
Sex; gender
Phenotype; genotype
Nature versus nurture
Culture versus socialization
Innate vorces versus genetic forces
Gender roles versus gender identity
Testosterone versus estrogen
It tends to support a male bias.
It is too conservative and inadequate to explain recent changes in gender definitions.
Its proposition that gender roles are functional is detrimental to women.
It does not address the issue of gender-based inequality.
It fails to take the biological basis of gender roles into account.
Men and women have differential access to the resources needed to succeed outside the home.
They are beneficial and efficient for human living.
Gender roles are incorporated into the self-concept through role taking and the looking-glass self.
They are essential to human survival.
Women are naturally better suited to perform certain tasks.
Men and women have differential access to the resources needed to succeed outside the home.
They are beneficial and efficient for human living.
Gender is incorporated to the self-concept through role taking and the looking-glass self.
They are essential for human survival.
Of innate biological differences.
Nursery schools now attempt to ignore gender roles and do not encourage conformity to them.
Teenagers who most closely fulfill gender role expectations are given the greatest respect.
Acceptance or rejection by peers is having less and less influence on the adolescent's self-concept.
Boys are more concerned than girls with gender role socialization.
In schools today, children are often encouraged to act out in the roles appropriate to the opposite sex.
Sexism.
Prejudice.
Gender identity.
Discrimination.
Gender roles.
45
52
60
76
83
Among the worst in the Western world.
More favorable than that of women in Scandinavian countries.
Harmed by "women's lib."
Actually superior to that of men because women vote in greater numbers.
Measured by the dependency ratio.
Sixteenth
Seventeenth
Eighteenth
Nineteenth
Twentieth
Sexism.
Feminism.
Genderism.
Communism.
Comparable worth.
Conservative pluralism.
The melting pot.
Assimilation to the male model of success.
Female inclusion.
Emergent pluralism.
1964
1991
2002
1983
Boys are less assertive in class than girls.
Illustrated children's books present very traditional gender definitions.
Parents' perceptions of the physical characteristics of their children are influenced very little by their children's gender.
Nursery school children who fail to conform to their "appropriate" gender are met with resistance from their peers.
Sex.
A sex stereotype.
A gender role.
A value uniquely held by men.
True
False
True
False
Hospice personnel
Physicians
Registered nurses
Practical nurses
Medical consultants
Illness syndrome
Sick role
Doctor-patient nexus
Instrumental role nexus
Mutual contact
Clever lobbying by the American Medical Association.
The high quality of American medical schools.
The dedication of nurses and volunteers.
Its connection with dominant societal power blocs.
Its roots in religion.
Medical schools socialize students to accept the beliefs, norms, values, and attitudes associated with the medical profession.
Those political and economic forces that determine the nature of capitalism also determine the nature of the health-care system.
"Sickness and "illness" are now seldom used social labels to stigmatize people in the United States.
The experience of pain is not affected by cultural differences.
Because it is now known that AIDS cannot be acquired through casual social interaction, this disease is on the way to losing its negative symbolic baggage.
Social psychological
Demographic and social class
Anthropological
Genetic
Spiritual
Native Americans
Dominicans
Asian Americans
Aleuts
Puerto Ricans
Few modern societies provide health care as a free or inexpensive service through their governments.
The United States is one of the few highly developed countries with national health insurance
Only the poorest Americans are without access to medical care on a nonemergency basis.
Only a little more than 1 million children in the United States are not covered by health insurance.
A major reason for health-care reform in the United States is the substantial proportion of Americans who do not have access to medical care, except on an emergency basis.
Modified competitiveness
Managed competition
All payer
Single player
Play or pay
Scientific research.
Legal precedent.
Society.
Economic reality.
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