d Anglo-Americans think it was acceptable to take over Mexican territory?
a. God’s divine plan
b. Mexicans offered it to them
c. Treaty of Versailles
d. All of the above
15. In what year did Garrison begin publishing his newspaper?
Importance of Family
16. The following are ideas of symbolic interactionist perspective on family, which of the statements is false?
a. Gendered division of labor does not occur
b. Children are getting less attention from parents than they used to
c. Women are spending more time on housework
d. All of the following are false
17. Concerning social class and child rearing, all of these are true of the differences between working-class and middle-class styles of raising children except:
a. Working-class parents usually believe that children develop naturally
b. Middle-class parents typically let their children choose their own leisure activities
c. Their type of work parents do affects how they rear their child
d. Middle-class parents are more likely to withdraw privileges or affection as punishment
18. Which of the following is not part of the six basic needs of survival of every society?
a. Economic production
b. Care of the sick and aged
Religion: Functionalism and Conflict Theories
19. What is not a function of religion?
a. Provides guidelines on how to live
b. Learn how to make an economic gain
c. Sets limits on people’s behavior
20. What is a negative result of the functions of religion?
a. People don’t follow the religion
b. People don’t know what to do with their life
c. Terrorist acts are sometimes carried in the name of teligion
21. What is a religion’s primary means of retaining its status?
a. Control food selection of congregation
b. Reinforcing ideologies
Health Care: Functionalist and Conflict perspective
22. What is/are the reason(s) why the United States’ life expectancy rates are worse than the other nations?
c. Emotional problems
d. Suffered more accidents and violence
e. All of the above
23. With health care viewed as a commodity rather than a right, the United States has developed a _______________________.
a. Two types of medical care
b. One type of medical care
c. Five-class system of medical care
d. No class system of medical care
e. Two-class system of medical care
24. The functionality of health care is indicated by ____________________________.
a. The ability to choose your doctor
b. The decrease in life expectancy and the decrease in infant mortality
c. The fee-for-service system
d. The rising life expectancy and the decrease in infant mortality
e. The development of expensive technology
Education: Functionalist and Conflict perspective
25. What is the hidden curriculum?
a. Refers to the unwritten goals of schools, such as teaching obedience to authority and conformity to cultural norms
b. The process by which education opens and closes doors of opportunity; another term for the social placement function of education
c. A function education -- funneling people into a society’s various positions
d. Robert Merton’s term for an originally false assertion that becomes true simply because it was predicted.
26. Which one of these terms occurred during the Rist Research?
c. Self-fulfilling prophecy
d. Social placement
27. George Farkas’ research on teacher expectations found that students of which gender and race were the best at sending good “signals” that their teachers were looking for?
a. Boys and Asian Americans
b. Girls and Asian Americans
c. Boys and Europeans
d. Girls and Europeans
28. The topic of self-esteem was discussed in relation to which three organizations?
a. AA, BSA, LGBT
b. AARP, AAA, GSA
c. SBC, AWANA, The Rotary Club
d. NAACP, MLB, DMV
29. Low self esteem contributes to which of the following behaviors?
a. Substance abuse and eating disorders
b. Violence and crime
d. Both a. and b.
30. Mary Sue is a girl scout who is sexually attracted to the other girls in her troop; however, she is very insecure. She doesn’t talk to anyone about it and eventually drops out of scouts and tries to drown her problems with alcohol. From this we can infer that Mary Sue:
a. Is