SOC 225 Exam 1 Complete Questions And Correct Verified Answers.

What is the most common definition of power used in sociology? [Ch.3 Structures of Social Life] - correct answer the ability to control events, resources, and people in spite of opposition. "both within and among societies today, patterns of social inequality are major features of how social systems work... At the heart of these patterns is the distribution of..." [Ch. 3 Structures of Social life] - correct answer power all knowledge is framed by the ideologies, languages, beliefs, and customs of human societies. Thus, our understanding of anything cannot be separated from the cultural context in which we currently live. [Ch. 1 How to engage constructively in courses] - correct answer social construction "if we want to know how people will behave, we're in many ways better off knowing the statuses they occupy than their personal characteristics and intentions." This is because each status has a role that provides a ____ that shapes how we experience and participate in those systems. [Ch. 3 Structures of social life] - correct answer path of least resistance focusing on exceptions or unanalyzed personal experiences prevents us from seeing the overall, ____. - correct answer societal patterns one of the challenges for students in a course that takes a critical approach to inequality is that they are often unprepared to engage in intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and unprepared to engage in intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and ambiguity that is required for understanding the material. this lack of preparation stems from ___ that has taught students to strive for conformity and compliance by memorizing the "one right answer" [Ch. 1 how to engage constructively in courses] - correct answer standardized testing which one of the following was not a trait of stratification mentioned in the video? [social stratification video from crash course] - correct answer social stratification has only emerged in societies after the industrial revolution. a system in which society sorts its members into categories and then ranks those categories is called what? [social stratification video from crash course] - correct answer social stratification in the United States, the idea of ___ is a much a justification for inequality and makes it easy to ignore the structural and makes it easy to ignore the structural factors that influence class standing. - correct answer meritocracy a student who has not done the readings, has limited knowledge and is resistant to increasing it, clings to the same worldview they came into the course with while also being overly confident about their opinion is engaging in which of the following. [Ch. 1 how to engage constructively in courses] - correct answer willful ignorance what is the term used to describe the belief that positions in life are awarded based on one's ability and skill? - correct answer meritocracy what makes stratification work? - correct answer beliefs the material in a course that takes a critical approach to inequality is likely to evoke strong feeling, often negative feelings such as guilt, shame, anger, and despair. what was the authors' conclusion about theses feelings? - correct answer these feelings can either be destructive or constructive depending on what you do with them Bonilla-Silva proposes that in a triracial stratification system, an intermediary racial group would buffer conflict similar to the way ___conflict is buffered by a ___. - correct answer economic; middle class the term "Asian American" was created in the ___. - correct answer late 1960s Omi and Winant define race as a concept that signifies and symbolizes___ by referring to ___. - correct answer social conflicts and interests; different types of humans bodies the human genome project found that all humans are more than 99.9% the same. despite this, omi says we're seeing a re-inscription of race as biology. what examples did he give to demonstrate this? - correct answer ethnic ancestry tests like , forensics DNA profiling, and biomedics (pharmaceuticals) by 2001, blacks were surpassed by __as the largest minority group in the US - correct answer latinos Omi and Winant explain that racial projects can occur at various analytical dimensions. Which of the following would be an example of a micro-level racial project - correct answer how parents talk to children about race, microaggressions among students in classrooms, and discriminatory hiring practices by managers. which of the following Asian American groups are overrepresented with lower education and lower skilled employment? - correct answer laotian american according to Omi and Winant, we should think of race as a(n)___. - correct answer element of social structure Omi and Winant use the term ___ to describe how cultural representations and racial meaning are connected to the racial organization of social structures and everyday experiences. - correct answer racial projects ___ involes historically situated social projects in which groups are defined in racial terms and organized within structures of power. - correct answer racial formation the court case of Susie Phipps, who sued the Louisiana Bureau of vital records in 1982 to change her racial classification, illustrates that ___. - correct answer the social meanings of race are constantly being transformed by political struggle a study by Davis Lopez found that in LA, about ____ of second generation Asian Americans speak only English at home. - correct answer 75% Omi discusses Ward Connerly's attempt to abolish racial classification. What is Omi's perspective on this movement? - correct answer he disagrees because social concepts of race still matter in a stratified society. race making is fundamentally a process of what? - correct answer othering in a study of Vietnamese youth in San Diego, most identified themselves as being ___. - correct answer vietnamese Bonilla-Silva argues that the US move to a triracial stratification system is - correct answer part of a strategy for white elites to maintain white power the majority of Asian-origin populations in the US are ___. - correct answer first generation according to Bonilla-Silva, the key to successfully challenging a tri-racial system will be - correct answer reminding "honorary whites" that their status is dependent upon whites' wishes and practices what current example does Omi use to demonstrate the continuing instability of race as a concept? - correct answer Rachael Dolezal Omi and Winant describes "neoconservative" and "liberal" arguments about public policy to illustrate that ___. - correct answer racial projects exist in definite historical context and are descended from earlier conflicts about race. Lisa Wade reviews the biological basis for sex differences for all of the following except - correct answer skeletal structure respectability politics is the idea that if people from marginalized groups acts as much as possible like their oppressor, they will be better treated and more easily accepted. the problem is that ____. - correct answer respectability politics reinforce the notion that the culture of the dominant group is superior, preferable, and universal. ryan argues that gay and lesbian individuals____. - correct answer can contribute to the marginalization of transgender individuals a political strategy of targeted social groups trying to conform as much as possible to the culture of the dominant group is called____. - correct answer assimilationist politics according to Crawley, Foley, and Shehan, one problem with dualistic thinking is that this approach ____. - correct answer hides the complexities of the world Katz refers to the time period when the heterosexual norm went almost unchallenged as - correct answer heterosexual hegemony according to crawley, foley, and shehan, ___is the belief that there are enduring biological differences between genders. - correct answer essentialism what is Dr. Wade's conclusion of the differences between the sexes - correct answer embodied gender differences will be acquired if society is gendered. according to crawley, foley, and shehan, embodied knowledge refers to ____. - correct answer how we experience gender during the early Victorian True Love era (), the human body was though of as a means for____. - correct answer procreation which doctor's conceptualization of heterosexual "offered the modern world a new norm that came to dominate our idea of the sexual universe, helping to change it from a mode of human reproduction... to a mode of pleasure? - correct answer Dr. Krafft-Ebing Katz argues that heterosexuality is a(n) ___ concept. - correct answer modern ryan critiques Diane Sawyer's interview with Caitlyn Jenner because it _____. - correct answer obscured the realities of systemic, institutional oppression of trans* individuals the idea that people come in two and only two body types, males who are masculine and females who are feminine is referred to as what? - correct answer gender binary