Final Exam

Question 1

Ageism

Answer 1

Ideology that people in a certain age group are inferior

Question 2

Acute disease

Answer 2

Diseases with quick and dramatic onset and the person either dies or recovers

Question 3

Cultural poverty

Answer 3

View of poverty as not only in terms of how many resources they have but also in terms of why they have failed to achieve higher status

Question 4

Collective violence

Answer 4

Organized violence by a large group of people to promote or resist practices

Question 5

Chronic disease

Answer 5

Disease that progresses over a long period of time and exist before they are detected

Question 6

Cohabitation

Answer 6

People who live together but aren’t legally married (Gene Simmons)

Question 7

Drug abuse

Answer 7

Continued use of a psychoactive substance at a level that violates social practices

Question 8

Drug dependence

Answer 8

Using a drug where it is needed in order to maintain life

Question 9

Ethnic group

Answer 9

Group of people who share a common historical and cultural heritage and a sense of group identity and belonging

Question 10

Hypothesis

Answer 10

Tentative statements that can be tested regarding relationships between 2 or more factors

Question 11

Internal colonialism

Answer 11

Exploitation in which a subordinate group provides cheap labor that benefits the dominant group and is further exploited by having to purchase expensive goods and services from the dominant group

Question 12

Life course

Answer 12

A succession of statuses and roles that people in a particular society experience in a fairly predictable pattern as they grow older

Question 13

Norms

Answer 13

Rules of conduct that guide a persons behavior

Question 14

Relative poverty

Answer 14

Based on the idea that people are poor relative to some standard and that standard is partially shaped by the lifestyles of other citizens

Question 15

Split labor

Answer 15

2 workers do the same work for different wages

Question 16

Social movement

Answer 16

A collective organized effort to promote or resist social change through unconventional means

Question 17

Theory

Answer 17

A set of statements that explains the relationship between phenomena

Question 18

Subculture

Answer 18

A group within a culture that shares beliefs values and norms of the larger culture but also some unique to them

Question 19

Absolute poverty

Answer 19

Poverty based on a fixed economic level below which people are considered poor, does not necessarily change as society becomes more or less affluent