Sociology Final Review
This includes I believe all of the chapters except 11, 12, 13 and 15. Hope it helps!
- 1.The text explains that slavery
- A.
No longer exists in today's world
- B.
Is found today in a mumber of low income nations in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa
- C.
Is found in every country of the world
- D.
None of the above is correct
- 2.In poor countries, the disadvantages women face relative to men are
- A.
About the same as in rich nations
- B.
Not as great as in rich nations
- C.
Greater than in rich nations
- D.
Just about nonexistent
- 3.The concept "absolute poverty" refers to
- A.
A lack of resources that is life threatening
- B.
The absolute number of poor people in any country
- C.
The real poverty rates as opposed to what governements claim to be the case
- D.
The poverty rate in low income countries
- 4.Compared to poverty in the United States, poverty in low income nations is
- A.
More likely to involve men
- B.
More widespread and severe
- C.
Less likely to involve children
- D.
A less serious problem
- 5.Where on the planet would you find most high income nations?
- A.
Spread evenly throughout all world regions
- B.
Mostly in the Northern Hemisphere
- C.
All within North America
- D.
Mostly in the Southern Hemisphere
- 6.Which of the following statements about high income nations is correct?
- A.
They are at the forefront of the Information Revolution
- B.
They make use of large factories and advanced energy sources
- C.
They contain almost all of the world's financial markets
- D.
All of the above are correct
- 7.Which type of slevery refers to one person owning another?
- A.
Chattel slavery
- B.
Child slavery
- C.
Debt bondage
- D.
Servile forms of marriage
- 8.Which type of slavery consists of employers holding workers by paying them too little to covert their debts?
- A.
Chattel slavery
- B.
Child slavery
- C.
Debt bondage
- D.
Servile forms of marriage
- 9.Dependency theory claims that poor nations
- A.
Are responsible for their own poverty
- B.
Were "underdeveloped" by colonialism
- C.
Suffer from traditional culture
- D.
Suffer from a "technology gap"
- 10.While modernization theory focuses on _________, dependency theory focuses on __________
- A.
Rich nations; poor nations
- B.
The future; the past
- C.
The production of wealth; the distribution of wealth
- D.
All of the above are correct
- 11.Talcott Parsons described gender in terms of
- A.
Power differences
- B.
Complementarity
- C.
Biological differences
- D.
The sexual objectification of women
- 12.Structural-functional analysis points out that industrialization encourages
- A.
Men to take control of the workplace
- B.
The lessening of gender differences and a trend towards gender equality
- C.
Women to have more children
- D.
All of the above are correct
- 13.Feminists claim that rape is mostly about
- A.
Power
- B.
Sex
- C.
Money
- D.
Moral weakness
- 14.Female genital mutilation is most common in
- A.
North America
- B.
Africa
- C.
Latin America
- D.
Asia
- 15.Talcott Parsons explained that males tend toward ______ behavior, and females tend to be more ______
- A.
Instrumental; expressive
- B.
Sympathetic; empathic
- C.
Egalitarian; hierarchical
- D.
Rational; traditional
- 16.All of the following except for one are goals of feminism. Which is NOT a goal of feminism?
- A.
Eliminating gender stratification
- B.
Ending sexual violence
- C.
Expanding human choice
- D.
Opposing the Equal Rights Amendment
- 17.Which type of feminism accepts the basic organization of US society, but seeks to expand the rights and opportunities of women?
- A.
Liberal feminism
- B.
Socialist feminism
- C.
Radical feminism
- D.
All of the above are correct
- 18.Young men show greater ________ ability than young women; young women show greater ____________ ability than young men.
- A.
Intellectual; sensory
- B.
Mathematical; verbal
- C.
Verbal; mathematical
- D.
Sensory; intellectual
- 19.The point of describing gender in the Israeli kibbutzim is
- A.
To show that gender is basically biological
- B.
To show that women can dominate men
- C.
To show that cultures define gender in different ways
- D.
To show that boys and girls should not be raised by biological parents
- 20.The chapter argues that gender is not a matter just of difference, but also a matter of difrences in
- A.
Power
- B.
Wealth
- C.
Privileges
- D.
All of the above are correct
- 21.All of the following are elements of George Herbert Mead's theory of the social self except
- A.
To understand intention, you must imagine a situation from the point of view of the other
- B.
The self develops mainly through the normal evolution of an individual from one stage of development to another
- C.
It is by taking the role of another that we become self aware
- D.
In the end, social experience is the exchange of symbols
- 22.According to Carol Gilligan, males use a ___________ perspective for moral reasoning
- A.
Care and responsibility
- B.
Justice
- C.
Mechanical
- D.
Indpendent
- 23.Most children's exposure to people from different backrounds occurs from
- A.
School
- B.
The peer group
- C.
The mass media
- D.
The total institution
- 24.Studies of childhood isolation consistently conclude that
- A.
There is not enough data to show what happens when children are isolated
- B.
Everyone goes through socialization differently
- C.
Social isolation in infancy causes permanent development damage
- D.
What happens in infancy is not important to the socialization process
- 25.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross described death as an orderly transition involving five specific stages. All of the following are her stages except
- A.
Resignation
- B.
Envy
- C.
Negotiation
- D.
Acceptance
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