Final

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

Way of life including, widespread values, beliefs, and behaviors within one’s group.

Question 2

Ethnic groups

Answer 2

Group of people distinguished, by others or by themselves on the basis of culture or nationality characteristics
Ascribed membership from birth, characterized by cultural traits and a realtice sense of community

Question 3

Race

Answer 3

A socially constructed category of people who share biological traits that a society often defines as important.

Question 4

Gender stereotypes

Answer 4

Men and women are naturally different in attribute, behaviours, and aspirations

Question 5

Gender identity

Answer 5

One’s perception of oneself

Question 6

Gender roles

Answer 6

What is appropriate for each gender to act

Question 7

Gender

Answer 7

The culturally and socially constructed differences between males and females found in the meanings, beliefs, and practices associated with femininity and masculinity

Question 8

Sexism

Answer 8

The subordination of one sex, usually female, based on the assumed superiority of the other sex

Question 9

Ethnicity vs. race

Question 10

What are the foreseen societal impacts of Peak Oil as sketched in The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream?

Answer 10

• no longer able to live in the subs
• no resources or transportations
• food shortages

Question 11

Do you agree with this pessimistic prognosis?

Question 12

Importance of peak oil

Answer 12

• Inflation, food shortages, end of globalization, wars over resources, stagnation, recession

Question 13

how essential oil is to our civilization

Question 14

Define marraige

Answer 14

A legally recognized and/or socially approved arrangement between two or more individuals that carries certain obligations and usually involves sexual rights and activity

Question 15

Philosophy

Answer 15

• Inquiry into the grand questions

- Questions with no definitive answers

Question 16

Psychology

Answer 16

Behaviour of individual humans (generally under experimental conditions)

Question 17

Political Scienece

Answer 17

• The study of politics and government
• Different forms of governments, their structure, and their relationship with others
• Public administration, political ideology, geopolitics, international relations

Question 18

Economics

Answer 18

Focus on a single institution:

Production, exchange, distribution and consumption of goods and services

Question 19

Sociology

Answer 19

the systematic study of human society and social interaction

Question 20

Peak Oil

Answer 20

• The point at which the max rate of extracting existing supply is reached
• More energy is needed to extract further; quality of oil decreases

Question 21

Robert Moses

Answer 21

His decisions favouring highways over public transit helped create suburbs of Long Island

Question 22

Sex

Answer 22

The biological and anatomical differences between males and females

Question 23

Can race and ethnicity constitute a master status?

Answer 23

Yes dominant status that is required for how we are previewed

Ethnicity, race, and religion can act as a stigmatized master status

Question 24

How does race and/or ethnicity play a part in the meanings we give to our interaction with others?

Answer 24

• hearing an accent and asking someone where they’re from

Question 25

Margret Mead

Answer 25

• Groundbreaking anthropologist
• If gender is natural it should be the same worldwide, regardless of culture
• Three Societies in New Guinea

Question 26

Polygamy

Answer 26

A marriage in which a husband has more than one wife

Question 27

Polygyny

Answer 27

many wives sharing the same husband, (feminist reversal of the “male” concept of polygamy)

Question 28

Differences between history and sociology

Answer 28

• Historians focus on unique and singular events
• Sociologists seek to go beyond singular events in order to make connections between different ines:
• Looking for patterns of change and social factors causing change and transformations

Question 29

What is family?

Answer 29

relationships in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for any young, and consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group

Question 30

Sociology

Answer 30

Sociology is the systematic study of human society and social interaction:

–from the study of dyads (two-person groups) to entire societies

Question 31

Differences between anthropology and sociology:

Answer 31

•Historical context:
–European colonialism vs (European) social transformations and crisis
•Societies observed:
–preliterate tribal groups vs modern societies
•Research techniques:
–participant observation vs sample survey