People who live in the suburbs are more likely than people who live in cities to
__________.
A) drive to school and work
B) work close to home
C) use public transportation
D) quit their jobs
The manufacturing industry contributes to air pollution, and passenger cars
__________.
A) have been seen as the only remedy to the issue
B) have been designed not to emit carbon dioxide
C) are permitted by law to emit more pollutants than the manufacturing industry
D) also emit dangerous gases into the environment
Homophobia shares the same ideological roots with other forms of prejudice including
__________.
A) racism
B) ableism
C) dysfunctionalism
D) sexism
Monitoring the Future, which studies long-term drug use, has coined the phrase
“generational forgetting,” which __________.
A) is used to describe the effects of GHB
B) refers to our consistently changing drug laws
C) highlights the importance of risk perception as a determinate of drug use
D) is what happens when a particular drug falls out of fashion with a generation of
youth
Many of the arrangements involved in __________ family life are much the same as
those that have been used by the poor all along.
A) industrial
B) modern
C) postmodern
D) premodern
A disability often distinguishes individuals from the majority and is both internalized
and outwardly stigmatizing. When experienced this way, disability is a __________.
A) matrix
B) master status
C) mischaracterization
D) trait
Which of the following is currently the most likely place for immigrants to settle?
A) Northeast
B) Middle Atlantic
C) Midwest
D) Southwest
The American focus on individuality and personal will masks the structural deficiencies
and challenges facing people with disabilities and contributes to a culture of
__________, wherein people without disabilities enact norms to retain their privileged
status.
A) hegemony
B) ableism
C) domination
D) barrierism
If a family consists of a beanpole structure, they are more likely to __________.
A) have three tiers of parent”child relationships
B) practice farming for a living
C) have families without grandchildren
D) have two parents and zero pets
Mental retardation is an example of a __________.
A) matrix of domination
B) physical disability
C) social disability
D) master status
As a result of a lack of curriculum standardization, __________.
A) there is a great deal of variation in what students learn
B) each year many students go to different schools with the same standards
C) American students are acquiring the skills necessary to succeed in the modern world
D) the American education system is the best in the world
When a person born into a wealthy class ends up in a lower social class it is called
__________.
A) horizontal mobility
B) upward mobility
C) downward mobility
D) nonfamily mobility
According to the text, __________ often escape criticism and identification as social
problems.
A) institutions
B) criminals
C) the mentally ill
D) school dropouts
Mark is openly gay and as such is set apart and treated as if he is inferior for not
upholding dominant social norms. Mark is experiencing _________.
A) sexual persecution
B) stigma
C) bisexuality
D) compulsory heteronormativity
The highly idealized middle-class family form involves __________.
A) a father, mother, grandparents, and children
B) sharing of resources and support with other families
C) a free-standing unit
D) periodic stints of using public assistance
The system of sexuality that imposes negative sanctions on those who are homosexual
or bisexual refers to __________.
A) androgyny
B) capitalist patriarchy
C) compulsory heterosexuality
D) male dominance
Alcohol is more commonly consumed by __________.
A) Whites
B) Blacks
C) Hispanics
D) Asian Americans
What percentage of microloans is repaid?
A) 98 percent
B) 75 percent
C) 55 percent
D) 32 percent
How many states allow marriage for same-sex couples?
A) nine
B) fifteen
C) twenty-five
D) fifty
In terms of their sexual relationships, the disabled tend to be treated __________.
A) as asexual, or at best inadequate
B) much like any other group of heterosexuals
C) as though they are all homosexual
D) as a sexual curiosity
The sociological perspective is inherently __________ the individualistic emphasis in
the United States.
A) challenging to
B) supportive of
C) combined with
D) intertwined with
Bill does not believe the poor individually have less motivation, but does see that there
are certain traits, beliefs, and habits they engage in which keep them poor and unable to
move forward. Bill is a proponent of __________.
A) structural theory
B) institutional discrimination theory
C) a culture-of-poverty hypothesis
D) a political economy approach to poverty
The average U.S. worker would have to work nearly one __________to make a CEO’s
hourly salary.
A) hour
B) day
C) week
D) month
The greater likelihood for men to advance in what have traditionally been known as
women’s professions is known as the glass __________.
A) ceiling
B) escalator
C) ladder
D) door
__________ is used as a weapon of mass disruption.
A) Assault
B) A computer virus
C) Tax evasion
D) Election fraud
Barrie Thorne, in a study of gender play, found that __________.
A) boys control less space
B) boys more often violate girls’ activities
C) boys treat girls as equals when they play
D) children are unaware of gender at early ages
Jeremy is trying to get the school board to reject advertising in schools. Although it
raises revenue, he argues that exposing children to advertising as a captive audience and
school environment is inherently __________.
A) educational
B) exploitative
C) profitable
D) egalitarian
The __________ is an arbitrary line computed by multiplying the cost of a basic
nutritionally adequate diet by three.
A) official poverty line
B) feminization of poverty
C) working poor
D) regressive tax
Children in female-headed single-parent families when compared with children from
two-parent families have __________.
A) more academic success
B) a higher dropout rate
C) a lower likelihood of alcohol and drug use
D) a lower likelihood of early marriage
In which of the following states is the majority non-White?
A) California
B) Idaho
C) Connecticut
D) New York
__________ are legal tax loopholes that allow the affluent to escape paying certain
taxes and receive a subsidy.
A) Regressive taxes
B) Tax expenditures
C) Welfare taxes
D) Poverty thresholds
Families that make the decision to care for their elderly parents while caring for their
own children are considered __________.
A) to be crazy
B) a nursing home start-up company
C) a elderly family structure
D) a sandwich family structure
The United States spends about __________ a year on defense.
A) $1 billion
B) $7 billion
C) $100 billion
D) $700 billion
The poor pay __________ than the non-poor for many goods and services.
What biases are evident in the U.S. correctional system? Who do they affect the most?
Can they be fixed?
How are corporate crimes different from white-collar crimes? Which is more damaging
for society?
Iran is considered a(n) __________ state by the United States.
A monetary guarantee that a defendant will show up for a trial is known as
__________, and it allows for a presumption of innocence until proven guilty.
Gains in __________ are resulting in narrowing the gap between White and Black
families.
Just over half of the world’s population now lives in __________ areas.
Discuss the pros and cons of “tracking.” Would you want to be in an education system
with a lot of tracking? What do we gain and lose with such a system?
Generally, people with disabilities earn __________than their nondisabled counterparts.
The __________ are the people who occupy the most influential roles in society.
The data presented in the text show that U.S. schools tend to block the chances of
minority and economically __________ children in their quest to be successful.
Explain how local control of education influences the quality of public schools. What
would be the effects of removing local control? Do you think we should remove local
control?
The transfer of publicly funded technologies to private corporations is an important
example of a government __________ to big business.