Unit 1 Quiz: Sociology
Describing, explaining, and blaming people who are involved with a problem and perhaps labeling them as deviants or wrongdoers is a process known as?
claims-making
A Sociological Perspective suggests that certain groups are more likely to experience poverty and economic inequality due to:
Intersectionality
Which one of these is a collective solution to poverty and the housing crisis?
Increasing minimum wage, and implementing a living wage.
In relation to poverty, symbolic interactionists focus on?
The construction of label's "wealthy" and "poor" and the costs of being identified by such labels.
Five journalists have been asked by their editor to create a special section of the newspaper devoted to the concept of "moral panics". The journalists go out into the city to find stories that would be a good fit for the upcoming edition. Which journalist has found a good story to fit into the edition about moral panics?
Mehmet proposes a story about national outrage about a coalition of teenaged transgendered and nonbinary young people across the country who are demanding that schools allow them to use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.
Sending your child to private school to help your child build their social networks, is an example of what type of capital?
Social capitalism.
What is an example of an individual who occupies intersecting inequalities?
A Black woman
According to social constructionists, human beings do not react to physical objects or to events, but rather to?
their shared meanings of these objects or events
An individual solution to dealing with homelessness would be to?
Get a roommate or live with family
Hunting and gathering societies were characterized by:
Equality, sharing, and economic cooperation.
____ plays an influential role in collective action around the world:
social media
Intersectionality is a concept that describes how inequalities based on___ intersect to worsen the inequalities that individuals experience.
All forms of inequality
Individuals who are unhoused are at greater risk of victimization, injury, illness, and death, because living on the streets or in encampments:
Can be dangerous, unsafe and hazardous, and can lead to people not being protected from outdoor elements or extreme weather.
The Structural-functionalist perspective of poverty______
Argues that poverty and inequality serve important functions in society.
According to Thomas theorem____
How you see things, shapes how you behave
The _____ approach to sociology suggests that the goal in dealing with social problems is always to avoid and reduce harm.
population health
Structural functionalists blame_____ for the existence of social problems:
social disorganization
____refers to the movement of people from one class to another during their lifetime.
Social mobility
All the varieties of feminism focus on the___ form of inequality.
gender
The health of pregnant women is negatively impacted when:
When women don't have access to nutritious food, pre-natal vitamins, or to medical appointments.
____refers to the measurable features of a problem.
objective elements
Emile Durkheim introduced the term____ to describe the condition on disorder that causes social norms to be weak or uncertain.
Anomie
In his study of suicide, Durkheim pointed out that mental distress and even suicide result from_____.
Insufficient social integration and social control
_____refers to elites, interest groups, or community leaders who stereotype and classify some situations as problems.
Claims-makers
Five people have gotten together for coffee, and they are discussing their jobs. Which of the people demonstrates alienation from their work?
Nellie works for the same garment company as Noah does, but works in the department that makes the zippers for the clothing. She looks at zippers all day long, and never sees the finished product. Her job is boring and she is not allowed to talk to any of her coworkers because they have to concentrate on the zipper production line. Because her work does not pay well, she is usually not able to afford any of the clothes that her company makes.
The ____ approach to sociology holds the perspective that society is made up of a collection of varied groups struggling over unequally distributed wealth and power.
Conflict theory
Sociologists who study how particular behaviors and conditions might come to be defined or framed as social problems are most likely working the ____ approach to sociological research.
Symbolic interactionist
____ is NOT one of the main sociological approaches in the study of social problems. Select one:
social production
Individualized solutions to deal with economic inequality include... select one:
getting rid of a vehicle and/or driving less to save on gas
eliminating eating out and/or vacations
lowering the thermostat in the winter
working extra hours or extra jobs
(all the above)