Sociology Final

Question 1

Preverbial Dangling Carrot

Answer 1

Keeping up with the Jones

Question 2

Capitalism

Answer 2

An economic system in which property and goods are primarily privately owned; private decisions determine investments and prices, production, and the distribution of goods are determined primarily by competition

Question 3

T/F America is a corporation

Answer 3

True

Question 4

How do corporations beat out their competition?

Answer 4

Cut corners and remove alienation amongst individuals by removing connections that are person to person

Question 5

2 Main Functions of Schools

Answer 5

Educate
Socialize

Question 6

Adam Smith on Competition

Answer 6

Competiton=Cohesive Society

Question 7

What does Karl Marx believe about Capitalism?

Answer 7

Capitalism=Alienation

Question 8

Capitalism Leads to

Answer 8

Exploitation
Commodified cation of the worker
Corruption of Morals
Alienation

Question 9

How does the upper class Earn Wealth?

Answer 9

No inherited

Question 10

Schools are described as

Answer 10

Sorting Machines

Question 11

Coleman Report Says

Answer 11

Student background and socioeconomic status are much more important in determining educational outcomes than are measured differences in schools

Question 12

Tracking Problem

Answer 12

This process reproduces social inequalities

Question 13

Charismatic Authority

Answer 13

Authority that rests on the personal appeal of an individual leader

Question 14

Legal-Rational Authority

Answer 14

Authority is based on legal, impersonal rules; the rules rule

Question 14

Traditional Authority

Answer 14

the authority that rests on the appeal to past traditions

Question 15

Hidden Curriculum

Answer 15

The nonacademic and less overt socialization functions of schooling

Question 16

Collective Action Theory

Answer 16

This takes place in groups and diverges from the social norms of the situation

Question 17

Hard Power

Answer 17

Attained through threat and coercive action

Question 18

Soft Power

Answer 18

Attained through the use of cultural attractiveness

Question 19

Dominant Class

Answer 19

Controls not only marital production but also the production of ideas

Question 20

Feudalism

Answer 20

A pre-capitalist economic system characterized by the presence of lords, vassals, serfs and fiefs

Question 21

Milgram experiment

Answer 21

An experiment devised in 1961, by a psychologist at Yale University, to see how far ordinary people would go to obey an authority figure

Question 22

Unions

Answer 22

An organization of workers designed to facilitate collective bargaining with an employer

Question 23

Offshoring

Answer 23

A business decision to move all or part of a company’s operations abroad to minimize costs

Question 24

Creative Class

Answer 24

Scientists, Engineers, Professors, Poets, Artists