SOCL 2001 LSU Exam 2| Questions with Complete Solutions 100% Solved| Grade A+
Sex role theory Talcott Parson's theory that men and women perform their sex roles as
breadwinners and wives/mothers respectively because the nuclear family is the ideal
arrangement in modern societies, fulfilling the function of reproducing workers
Homosexual The social identity of a person who has sexual attraction to and/or relations
with other person's of the same sex
Sexism Occurs when a person's sex or gender is the basis for judgement, discrimination, and
hatred against him or her
Sexual harrassment An illegal form of discrimination, involving everything from
inappropriate jokes on the job to outright sexual assault to sexual "barter" - all intended to
make women feel uncomfortable and unwelcome, particularly on the job
Glass ceiling An invisible limit on women's climb up the occupational ladder
Glass elevator The accelerated promotion of men to the top of a work organization,
especially in feminized jobs
Race A group of people who share a set of characteristics - typically, but not always, physical
ones - and are said to share a common blood line
Racism The belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits
Scientific racism 19th century theories of race that categorize a period of feverish
investigation into the origins, explanations, and classifications of race
, Ethnocentrism The belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others and the
tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of one's own
Ontological equality The philosophical and religious notion that all people are created equal
Social Darwinism The application of Darwinian ideas to society - namely, the evolutionary
"survival of the fittest"
Eugenics Literally meaning "well born"; a pseudoscience that postulates that controlling
fertility of populations could influence inheritable traits passed on from generation to
generation
Nativism The movement to protect and preserve indigenous land or culture from the
allegedly dangerous and polluting effects of new immigrants
One drop rule The belief that "one drop" of black blood makes a person black, a concept
that evolved from U.S. laws forbidding miscegenation
Miscegenation The technical term for interracial marriage; means "a mixing of kinds" it is
politically and historically charged - sociologists generally prefer exogamy or outmarriage
Racialization The formation of a new racial identity by drawing ideological boundaries of
difference around a formerly unnoticed group of people
Ethnicity One's ethnic quality or affiliation. It is voluntary, self-defined, nonhierarchal, fluid
and multiple, and based on cultural differences, not physical ones per se
Symbolic ethnicity A nationality, not in sense of carrying the rights and duties of citizenship
but of identifying with a past or future nationality. For later generations of white ethnics,
Sex role theory Talcott Parson's theory that men and women perform their sex roles as
breadwinners and wives/mothers respectively because the nuclear family is the ideal
arrangement in modern societies, fulfilling the function of reproducing workers
Homosexual The social identity of a person who has sexual attraction to and/or relations
with other person's of the same sex
Sexism Occurs when a person's sex or gender is the basis for judgement, discrimination, and
hatred against him or her
Sexual harrassment An illegal form of discrimination, involving everything from
inappropriate jokes on the job to outright sexual assault to sexual "barter" - all intended to
make women feel uncomfortable and unwelcome, particularly on the job
Glass ceiling An invisible limit on women's climb up the occupational ladder
Glass elevator The accelerated promotion of men to the top of a work organization,
especially in feminized jobs
Race A group of people who share a set of characteristics - typically, but not always, physical
ones - and are said to share a common blood line
Racism The belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits
Scientific racism 19th century theories of race that categorize a period of feverish
investigation into the origins, explanations, and classifications of race
, Ethnocentrism The belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others and the
tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of one's own
Ontological equality The philosophical and religious notion that all people are created equal
Social Darwinism The application of Darwinian ideas to society - namely, the evolutionary
"survival of the fittest"
Eugenics Literally meaning "well born"; a pseudoscience that postulates that controlling
fertility of populations could influence inheritable traits passed on from generation to
generation
Nativism The movement to protect and preserve indigenous land or culture from the
allegedly dangerous and polluting effects of new immigrants
One drop rule The belief that "one drop" of black blood makes a person black, a concept
that evolved from U.S. laws forbidding miscegenation
Miscegenation The technical term for interracial marriage; means "a mixing of kinds" it is
politically and historically charged - sociologists generally prefer exogamy or outmarriage
Racialization The formation of a new racial identity by drawing ideological boundaries of
difference around a formerly unnoticed group of people
Ethnicity One's ethnic quality or affiliation. It is voluntary, self-defined, nonhierarchal, fluid
and multiple, and based on cultural differences, not physical ones per se
Symbolic ethnicity A nationality, not in sense of carrying the rights and duties of citizenship
but of identifying with a past or future nationality. For later generations of white ethnics,
