SOC 225 Exam 1 Complete Questions And Correct Verified Answers.
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What is the most common definition of power used in sociology? [Ch.3 Structures of Social Life] - correct answer the ability to control events, resources, and people in spite of opposition.
"both within and among societies today, patterns of social inequality...
What is the most common definition of power used in sociology? [Ch.3 Structures of Social Life] - correct
answer the ability to control events, resources, and people in spite of opposition.
"both within and among societies today, patterns of social inequality are major features of how social
systems work... At the heart of these patterns is the distribution of..." [Ch. 3 Structures of Social life] -
correct answer power
all knowledge is framed by the ideologies, languages, beliefs, and customs of human societies. Thus, our
understanding of anything cannot be separated from the cultural context in which we currently live. [Ch.
1 How to engage constructively in courses] - correct answer social construction
"if we want to know how people will behave, we're in many ways better off knowing the statuses they
occupy than their personal characteristics and intentions." This is because each status has a role that
provides a ____ that shapes how we experience and participate in those systems. [Ch. 3 Structures of
social life] - correct answer path of least resistance
focusing on exceptions or unanalyzed personal experiences prevents us from seeing the overall, ____. -
correct answer societal patterns
one of the challenges for students in a course that takes a critical approach to inequality is that they are
often unprepared to engage in intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and unprepared to engage in
intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and ambiguity that is required for understanding the material. this
lack of preparation stems from ___ that has taught students to strive for conformity and compliance by
memorizing the "one right answer" [Ch. 1 how to engage constructively in courses] - correct answer
standardized testing
which one of the following was not a trait of stratification mentioned in the video? [social stratification
video from crash course] - correct answer social stratification has only emerged in
societies after the industrial revolution.
, a system in which society sorts its members into categories and then ranks those categories is called
what? [social stratification video from crash course] - correct answer social
stratification
in the United States, the idea of ___ is a much a justification for inequality and makes it easy to ignore
the structural and makes it easy to ignore the structural factors that influence class standing. - correct
answer meritocracy
a student who has not done the readings, has limited knowledge and is resistant to increasing it, clings
to the same worldview they came into the course with while also being overly confident about their
opinion is engaging in which of the following. [Ch. 1 how to engage constructively in courses] - correct
answer willful ignorance
what is the term used to describe the belief that positions in life are awarded based on one's ability and
skill? - correct answer meritocracy
what makes stratification work? - correct answer beliefs
the material in a course that takes a critical approach to inequality is likely to evoke strong feeling, often
negative feelings such as guilt, shame, anger, and despair.
what was the authors' conclusion about theses feelings? - correct answer these
feelings can either be destructive or constructive depending on what you do with them
Bonilla-Silva proposes that in a triracial stratification system, an intermediary racial group would buffer
conflict similar to the way ___conflict is buffered by a ___. - correct answer
economic; middle class
the term "Asian American" was created in the ___. - correct answer late 1960s
Omi and Winant define race as a concept that signifies and symbolizes___ by referring to ___. - correct
answer social conflicts and interests; different types of humans bodies
the human genome project found that all humans are more than 99.9% the same. despite this, omi says
we're seeing a re-inscription of race as biology. what examples did he give to demonstrate this? - correct
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