Sociology 1000 final exam Brekhus
Mizzou questions & answers.
Lifestyler ANS - Gay as a noun. 100% gay 100% of the time. Live in gay enclaves and identify gay as the
most important aspect of their life.
Commuter ANS - Travel to gay enclaves. Gay as a ver. has two social groups- their typically straight,
suburb friends, and they gay typically city friends. Can't tell they're gay, unless they're in the enclave.
100% gay, 15% of the time.
Integrator ANS - Gay as an adjective. It's part of who they are, but it doesn't define them. 15% gay 100%
of the time. usually have nothing to do with gay enclaves.
Chambliss and success ANS - QUALITATIVE. better technique is more important in achieving excellence
than time spent practicing. Practicing the little things right and perfect them, developing new
techniques, or practicing against people who are better than you.
Gladwell and success ANS - QUANTITATIVE. 10,000 hour rule, practicing as much as possible and
dedicating your life to something to achieve success.
What do Gladwell and Chambliss agree on? ANS - Two things.
1) right place at the right time is significant- being born at the beginning of the year benefits hockey
players because they have more time to develop and therefore be better than their younger peers. Bill
Gates being in college during the technological breakthrough allowed him to gain an interest in
computers when he had enough free time to play around with them.
2) being born with natural talent is insignificant.
Rampage School Shooting reading ANS - School shooters typically characterized by:
1) they feel like their masculinity is being challenged, and as such respond with violence.
2) they feel humiliated by a certain part of society, and also feel they are superior than them.
, 3) they feel they are owed a certain amount of entitlement and privilege by society, and when combined
with their feelings of pain from society, they respond with violence.
4) typically wealthier, white males, carrying highly destructive weapons, firing seemingly at random
(there are some targets but many random victims).
5) almost always end in suicide.
Suicide and gender ANS - Fatal suicide: men who successfully commit suicide are viewed more favorably
than women who successfully commit suicide.
Non-fatal suicide: Women are often given support when they attempt suicide, while men are ostracized
and considered feminine.
Women attempt suicide more, but have much higher rates of non-fatal suicide.
Men attempt suicide less but are much more successful.
Gender, Class and Terrorism reading ANS - Terrorists are typically:
1) educated through high school, sometimes college
2) not poor, but middle class facing downward mobility and economic uncertainty.
3) sons of men who work in industries in decline that are usually passed down the generations, the
terrorists then fear they can't work where they expected to work.
4) from general privilege, but they are losing it.
Terrorists are angry at their government due to their decline in privilege, and they typically take it out on
"others"- women, gays, minorities, and immigrants, because these "others" compete with them for the
jobs they feel entitled to.
By not having a job, and by basically being a disappointment, they feel emasculated and feminized.
Terrorist organizations, or supremacy groups provide them with their sense of masculinity.
Science texts and the Egg and the Sperm ANS - Science texts romanticize the insemination process by
portraying the sperm personally and as a "rescuer" of the egg, and the egg as a "damsel in distress". In
reality, the egg is the lock, and the sperm is the key, they are codependent. They also suggest female
reproductive organs are wasteful, when, taking into consideration the rate of menstruation and
pregnancy, women waste around 400 eggs in their lifetime, while men waste trillions of sperm. They
also portray sperm as active and the egg as inactive, which perpetuates societal stereotypes of men and
women on the cellular level. Note, sperm are dumb, they swim around crazily, as opposed to the
steadfast description given by science texts.
Mizzou questions & answers.
Lifestyler ANS - Gay as a noun. 100% gay 100% of the time. Live in gay enclaves and identify gay as the
most important aspect of their life.
Commuter ANS - Travel to gay enclaves. Gay as a ver. has two social groups- their typically straight,
suburb friends, and they gay typically city friends. Can't tell they're gay, unless they're in the enclave.
100% gay, 15% of the time.
Integrator ANS - Gay as an adjective. It's part of who they are, but it doesn't define them. 15% gay 100%
of the time. usually have nothing to do with gay enclaves.
Chambliss and success ANS - QUALITATIVE. better technique is more important in achieving excellence
than time spent practicing. Practicing the little things right and perfect them, developing new
techniques, or practicing against people who are better than you.
Gladwell and success ANS - QUANTITATIVE. 10,000 hour rule, practicing as much as possible and
dedicating your life to something to achieve success.
What do Gladwell and Chambliss agree on? ANS - Two things.
1) right place at the right time is significant- being born at the beginning of the year benefits hockey
players because they have more time to develop and therefore be better than their younger peers. Bill
Gates being in college during the technological breakthrough allowed him to gain an interest in
computers when he had enough free time to play around with them.
2) being born with natural talent is insignificant.
Rampage School Shooting reading ANS - School shooters typically characterized by:
1) they feel like their masculinity is being challenged, and as such respond with violence.
2) they feel humiliated by a certain part of society, and also feel they are superior than them.
, 3) they feel they are owed a certain amount of entitlement and privilege by society, and when combined
with their feelings of pain from society, they respond with violence.
4) typically wealthier, white males, carrying highly destructive weapons, firing seemingly at random
(there are some targets but many random victims).
5) almost always end in suicide.
Suicide and gender ANS - Fatal suicide: men who successfully commit suicide are viewed more favorably
than women who successfully commit suicide.
Non-fatal suicide: Women are often given support when they attempt suicide, while men are ostracized
and considered feminine.
Women attempt suicide more, but have much higher rates of non-fatal suicide.
Men attempt suicide less but are much more successful.
Gender, Class and Terrorism reading ANS - Terrorists are typically:
1) educated through high school, sometimes college
2) not poor, but middle class facing downward mobility and economic uncertainty.
3) sons of men who work in industries in decline that are usually passed down the generations, the
terrorists then fear they can't work where they expected to work.
4) from general privilege, but they are losing it.
Terrorists are angry at their government due to their decline in privilege, and they typically take it out on
"others"- women, gays, minorities, and immigrants, because these "others" compete with them for the
jobs they feel entitled to.
By not having a job, and by basically being a disappointment, they feel emasculated and feminized.
Terrorist organizations, or supremacy groups provide them with their sense of masculinity.
Science texts and the Egg and the Sperm ANS - Science texts romanticize the insemination process by
portraying the sperm personally and as a "rescuer" of the egg, and the egg as a "damsel in distress". In
reality, the egg is the lock, and the sperm is the key, they are codependent. They also suggest female
reproductive organs are wasteful, when, taking into consideration the rate of menstruation and
pregnancy, women waste around 400 eggs in their lifetime, while men waste trillions of sperm. They
also portray sperm as active and the egg as inactive, which perpetuates societal stereotypes of men and
women on the cellular level. Note, sperm are dumb, they swim around crazily, as opposed to the
steadfast description given by science texts.
