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Sociology Final Exam Expected Questions and Answers Examining social life and emphasizing the interplay between societal forces and personal characteristics in influencing peoples thought, actions, feelings, judgements, and interactions is known as: - ANSWER-the sociological perspective When i...

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Sociology Final Exam Expected

Questions and Answers


Examining social life and emphasizing the interplay between societal forces and personal characteristics

in influencing peoples thought, actions, feelings, judgements, and interactions is known as: -

ANSWER✔✔-the sociological perspective


When interacting with a new contact person, Chris, Newman's job as an expediter was frustrated

because: - ANSWER✔✔-all of the above


Minner is a Black women who is working class and a lesbian; her experiences can best be represented if

she is understood primarily as representing: - ANSWER✔✔-none of the above


Newman's students did not understand the within-group diversity in the category "white" because they:

- ANSWER✔✔-equated Whiteness with normality


Researchers do not devote time to ask why people become heterosexual because: - ANSWER✔✔-

heterosexuality is normative


In a stratified society, human difference is arranged: - ANSWER✔✔-vertically


Educational attainment is usually described as: - ANSWER✔✔-an achieved status




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Access to education is often derived from one's: - ANSWER✔✔-ascribed status


Emily is a black woman with a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering with a high income but little personal or

familial wealth; her social status is: - ANSWER✔✔-based on both achieved and ascribed criteria


According to structural-functionalism, a Starbucks barista would not need to be heavily rewarded,

because even though there seems to be a high demand for take-out coffee: - ANSWER✔✔-the position

of barista is easily filled


According to the conflict perspective, people become doctors primarily because: - ANSWER✔✔-they

have access to training


According to the conflict perspective, stratification is best described as: - ANSWER✔✔-vertical

differences arranged for the benefit of those already in power


Assimilation into American culture has been equally easy for all groups - ANSWER✔✔-False


Only young children and adolescents engage in rigid differentiation and categorization - ANSWER✔✔-

False


According to the text, people not easily categorized often make us uncomfortable - ANSWER✔✔-True


The meanings of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality have always remained the same through

time. - ANSWER✔✔-False


We all possess multiple identities - ANSWER✔✔-True



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Sickle-cell anemia is found exclusively in one racial group - ANSWER✔✔-False


The poverty line is determined by what a family of four needs to feed, house, and clothe all its members

adequately - ANSWER✔✔-False


Determining an individual's sex is always a strictly natural and straightforward process - ANSWER✔✔-

False


The example of Gregory Williams's movement through racial categories as he moved from one state

another is a reflection of the concept of: - ANSWER✔✔-constructionism


According to the author, which of the following components of identity is lease likely to be attributed to

innate biological or anatomical traits? - ANSWER✔✔-class


The quotation from the text, "I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles

of horrible country," referred to which group in the 19th century? - ANSWER✔✔-Irish


According to the text, United states, the upper class is composed of the highest-earning: - ANSWER✔✔-

5% of population


In the U.S., the official poverty line is determined by: - ANSWER✔✔-the cost of a subsistence diet,

multiplied by 3


In the United States, although we recognize the existence of different erotically included categories, we

only recognize two sexes. This is known as: - ANSWER✔✔-the sexual dichotomy




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