SOCIOLOGY 1000 FINAL EXAM
BREKHUS MIZZOU CORRECT 100%
Lifestyler - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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? - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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.
Army and racial integration - ANSWER Rank is so highly valued in the Army, that race
is almost insignificant. One is promoted solely based on their skills, and this is
, reinforced by the idea that one's rank can oftentimes be a matter of life or death in battle
based on who is in charge, racism is eliminated in rank and promotions out of fear that
an inadequate white officer receiving a promotion based on race will endanger lives.
The Army also pays for college education which ensures smart and capable people
enlist, and also offers educational opportunities to minorities they may have never had
before. Goal system, not quota. Basic training eliminates any advantages based on
race, and focuses solely on how one performs, and as such it is oftentimes the first
instance in which minorities can outshine their white peers.
Race and employment - ANSWER Criminal record: out of 100 whites without a criminal
record who receive a call back.. 50% of whites with a record, 41% of blacks without a
record, and 9% of blacks with a record can also expect a call.
Names: identical resumes with a white sounding name are 50% more likely to get an
interview than resumes with a black sounding name.
Environmental racism and functions of poverty - ANSWER Environmental racism: the
growing convergence of hazardous waste sites surrounding minority communities.
NOTE: MINORITY communities, NOT poor, white communities.
This relates to the functions of poverty in the sense that though the minorities have no
control over the filth they live in, they are seen as undeserving, and it is considered their
fault the waste is there. Also, the poor minorities act as scapegoats for social problems
that they have nothing to do with, so that rich white folk can blame them and wipe their
hands clean of wrongdoing.
How do black and white views of racism differ? - ANSWER Whites: likely to see any
racist interaction as just a misunderstanding, they think blacks overreact and "pull the
race card"
Blacks: are more likely to perceive something as racist because they are socially
marked.
How is racism fiction? Reality? Give evidence to the fact that it is socially constructed. -
ANSWER Fiction: race gradually changes, there is no distinctive break in one region to
the region next to it. The physical characteristics that constitute our interpretation of
"race" are actually biological traits to make one best suited to live in their region, and
exist everywhere. European noses= heating the cold air before it reaches lungs. Yet we
focus mostly on skin color. We are all biologically one race, sharing 99% of the same
genomes.
Reality: there are very real negative consequences of race, E.G: discrimination.
Socially constructed: racial categories arise from our preference to group people neatly
and isolate oneself from "others"
Irony of this is that race is an entirely social constructed institution, yet we have
absolutely no control over the race we are apart of, it is our master, ascribed status.
Davis-Moore thesis - ANSWER Income inequality is actually beneficial to society. The
high salaries and social rewards (people like doctors more than electricians) ensure that
BREKHUS MIZZOU CORRECT 100%
Lifestyler - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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? - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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.
Army and racial integration - ANSWER Rank is so highly valued in the Army, that race
is almost insignificant. One is promoted solely based on their skills, and this is
, reinforced by the idea that one's rank can oftentimes be a matter of life or death in battle
based on who is in charge, racism is eliminated in rank and promotions out of fear that
an inadequate white officer receiving a promotion based on race will endanger lives.
The Army also pays for college education which ensures smart and capable people
enlist, and also offers educational opportunities to minorities they may have never had
before. Goal system, not quota. Basic training eliminates any advantages based on
race, and focuses solely on how one performs, and as such it is oftentimes the first
instance in which minorities can outshine their white peers.
Race and employment - ANSWER Criminal record: out of 100 whites without a criminal
record who receive a call back.. 50% of whites with a record, 41% of blacks without a
record, and 9% of blacks with a record can also expect a call.
Names: identical resumes with a white sounding name are 50% more likely to get an
interview than resumes with a black sounding name.
Environmental racism and functions of poverty - ANSWER Environmental racism: the
growing convergence of hazardous waste sites surrounding minority communities.
NOTE: MINORITY communities, NOT poor, white communities.
This relates to the functions of poverty in the sense that though the minorities have no
control over the filth they live in, they are seen as undeserving, and it is considered their
fault the waste is there. Also, the poor minorities act as scapegoats for social problems
that they have nothing to do with, so that rich white folk can blame them and wipe their
hands clean of wrongdoing.
How do black and white views of racism differ? - ANSWER Whites: likely to see any
racist interaction as just a misunderstanding, they think blacks overreact and "pull the
race card"
Blacks: are more likely to perceive something as racist because they are socially
marked.
How is racism fiction? Reality? Give evidence to the fact that it is socially constructed. -
ANSWER Fiction: race gradually changes, there is no distinctive break in one region to
the region next to it. The physical characteristics that constitute our interpretation of
"race" are actually biological traits to make one best suited to live in their region, and
exist everywhere. European noses= heating the cold air before it reaches lungs. Yet we
focus mostly on skin color. We are all biologically one race, sharing 99% of the same
genomes.
Reality: there are very real negative consequences of race, E.G: discrimination.
Socially constructed: racial categories arise from our preference to group people neatly
and isolate oneself from "others"
Irony of this is that race is an entirely social constructed institution, yet we have
absolutely no control over the race we are apart of, it is our master, ascribed status.
Davis-Moore thesis - ANSWER Income inequality is actually beneficial to society. The
high salaries and social rewards (people like doctors more than electricians) ensure that
