Soc exam 2

The undisputed political rule of a state over a given territorial area is called

soverignty

What is the definition of power, sociologically speaking?

The ability of individuals to acheive aims or further the interstes they hold

The importance of the shared identity of being a texan could be though of as an example of

local nationalism

What is one of the most important characteristics for a govt official to have in a modern buraecrqatized democracy?

expertise

What supports the position that the military plays a central role in the power of the United States

the size of the US military budget, relative to that of other countries

Which of the following would be most likely to increase voter turnout in the United states?

making voting legally compulsory

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A bureaucracy has a clear hierarchy of authrority, it is a good example of a formalized

division of labor

Economic interdepece implies that

the modern division of labor has made individuals dependent on others to produce many or most of the goods they need to live

Which of the following is most likely to provoke a sense of alienation?

a data entry for a large corporation

economic transactions carried on outside the sphere of orthodox paid employment are known as

informal economy

The specialization in producing goods for the world that divides region zones into industrisl and agricultural productions or high or low skilled labor is called

the international division of labor

Worker strikes are a means

leveraging collective power over employers

Tasha lives w her mother father and fathers parents, she lives in an

extended family

Analyzing the distribution of power within the househole is one of the primary concerns of

feminist theories of the family

The belief in romantic attatchment as a basis for conttacying marriage ties is known as

affective individualism

William J Goode identifies several importnat changes in GLOBAL family and marriage patterns. One of the main effects of these changes is that they are

making patterns in other parts of the world more similar to the patterns found in Western industrialied countries

The high rates of births to unmarried women in African American, Puerto Rcian and Native American communities suggests

the ppl who live in poverty are less likely to marry, even when they have chidren or cohabitate

What is one of the factors complicating research on the effects of divorce on children

marriages in which the partners are unhappy but stay together may adversely affect children in ways difficult to detect in divorce studies

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the concept of the achievement gap in education refers t o

disparities in achievement on multiple measure of academic sucesss betwene students of different races, genders, or social classes

Idnetify a dif between the assimilation and credentualism theories of the function of education

assimilation - focuses on how deducatino is a culturally infiying forces and credentialism - focuses on the function of education for stratifying the population

Honors classes vs non college prep classes - what do the differences reveal

the workings of the hidden curriculum

Cultural capital

the advantage that well to do parents usually provide for their children

what is the main finding of James Colemans classiv investigation of educational inequality

that materials arent as important as a studenys family and background when it comes to educational outcomesMr

Mr.Denton skipped a book - this decision was shaped by

The No child left behind act

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cults flourish

when there is a breakdown of the societal belief systems

According to Durkheim what is the mosy signfifcant distinction in any religion?

the distinction betweent the sacred and profane

Martinas church began loosing members —> new study group. this is an example of

religous revitalization as a consequence of competition

how did christianity and islam spread across the world?

military force and missionary work

what is civil religion?

a set of religous beliefs where a society interprets its own history in light of some conception of ultimate reality

religous movements that emphasize the importance of innner religous life and psirutual purity over worldly concers are

world accomodating movemenys

lucias smoking sick role is viewed as

illegitamate

what aspect of illness do symbolic interactionists focus on that functionalist theorists dont?

the lived experience of illness and the meanings association with it

demography

the study of poulations, inclsuing size , rates of growoth and other stuff

population growth why

infant mortality rates have declined

urban ecology approach developed by Robert Park

the formation of urban arrangaments as analagpus to the way that plants and organisms adjust to the physical envionrment

higher ubran growth rate in less industrialized cities is bc ___ & ____

high fertility rates and internal migration from rural areas

how many lived in slums in 2014

1 billion

current fears regarding the depletion of energy resources are greatly exacerbated by

the rapid economic growh of china and india