Review 5

Question 1

What is tracking?

Answer 1

the practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scored and other criteria

Question 2

Critics of homeschooling suggest that homeschooled children are

Answer 2

isolated from the larger community and lose an important chance to improve their socialization skills

Question 3

Your professor receives a promotion when she publishes a journal article within her body of expertise, instead of the promotion going to the department chair’s brother-in-law who used to be a cashier but could really use the money. This illustrates which characteristic of a bureaucracy

a. hierarchy of authority
b. impersonality
c. division of labor
d. employment based on technical qualifications

Answer 3

employment based on technical qualifications

Question 4

The marginalization in sex and relationship education in schools of anything other than heterosexual relationship is an example of

Answer 4

hidden curriculum

Question 5

In the past, the integrative function of education in the united states was most obvious in its emphasis on

a. teaching diversity in the classroom
b. teaching strict discipline
c. promotion of a common language
d. teaching students that the share a common history

Answer 5

promotion of a common language

Question 6

Which sociological perspective emphasizes individual religious expression through belief, ritual, and experience

Answer 6

interactionist perspective

Question 7

Giving meaning to the divine and defining the spiritual world are amoung religion’s example of whihc of the following

a. manifest function
b. latent function
c. latent dysfunction
d. manifest dysfunction

Answer 7

Manifest function

Question 8

In which of way does Hinduism differ from other major religions?

a. It embraces only one good
b. it emphasizes enlightenment through meditation
c. it is preserved mostly through a single written text
d. it embraces a number of major and minor gods

Answer 8

It embraces a number of major and minor gods

Question 9

Churches that serve as training grounds for community leaders and allow members to refine their organizational skills are performing a

Answer 9

latent function

Question 10

Which sociological perspective emphasizes religion as a source of social support for individuals

Answer 10

functionalist

Question 11

In pointing out that the growth of the electronic media has facilitated the development of charismatic authority, sociologist Carl Couch draws on which perspective?

Answer 11

Interactionist perspective

Question 12

When corporations in the US relocates its plants to a country where prevailing wages are lower than in the US, this is

Answer 12

Deindustrlization

Question 13

A recent analysis of newspapers coverage of female gubernatorial candidates indicated that

a. Coverage focused more often on the personal life, appearance, or personality of a female candidate than it did on that of a male candidate
b. articles are more likely to illustrate political issues with statements made by female candidates
c. newspapers often fail to cover the political rallies of female candidates
d. male and female candidates have received equal treatment by the new media in recent elections

Answer 13

Coverage focused more often on the personal life, appearance, or personality of a female candidate than it did on that of a male candidate

Question 14

In the United States, there is a presidential election every four years. After the election, nearlt half the popualtion readily accpets the leadership of the person for whom they did not vote. This is an example of

Answer 14

rational-legal authority

Question 15

If a nonmainstream practice is used together with conventional medicine, its and example of

Answer 15

complementary

Question 16

What reason do skeptics of conflict-based explanations give for why 43 percent of the people who live with in 1 mile of hazardous waste treatment facilities in the US do so?

a. Racial and ethnic minorities posses less power than others
b. They like to live there due to the low housing prices
c. Economics and discriminatory forces push them to live in these places
d. they choose to live in these ecological oases

Answer 16

They like to live there due to the low housing prices

Question 17

Rebellious craft workers in the nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the new Industrial Revolution were know as

Answer 17

Luddites

Question 18

Which sociological perspective would likely be interested in the labels attached to activists associated with social movements, such as a feminist student referred to as a “bra burner”

Answer 18

Interactionist perspective

Question 19

Talcott Parson’s equilibrium model, the incorporation of groups that were previously excluded because of their race, ethnicity and social class is know as

Answer 19

inclusion

Question 20

Which of the following statements about rumors is accurate?

a. Rumors often reinforce people’s faith in mass media
b. Rumors are detriment because they cause people to doubt a shared belief
c. Rumors make it difficult for people to cope with change
d. Workplace rumors about what is or may be happening are usually highly accurate

Answer 20

Workplace rumors about what is or may be happening are usually highly accurate

Question 21

Which sociological perspective is most critical of the differential in which education bestows status?

Answer 21

conflict perspective

Question 22

Which sociologist studied public schools in low-income and affluent areas of Chicago. He noticed that administrators expected less of students from poor neighborhoods and wondered if teachers accepted their view.

Answer 22

Howard S. Becker

Question 23

Morbidity rates are the

Answer 23

total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time

Question 24

A___ is an exciting mass involvement that last for a relatively long period

Answer 24

Craze