Contemporary Social Issues Exam Materials https://quizplus.com/study-set/994 13 Chapters 2331 Verified Questions
Contemporary Social Issues Exam Materials Course Introduction This course examines pressing social issues that shape contemporary societies, exploring topics such as inequality, migration, gender, race, environmental challenges, and the impact of technology on everyday life. Through interdisciplinary perspectives and case studies, students analyze the causes and consequences of these issues, consider policy responses, and reflect on the societal values and ethical debates involved. The course encourages critical thinking, informed discussion, and active engagement with current events to foster a deeper understanding of complex social dynamics in a rapidly changing world.
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Chapter 1: Introducing Sociology Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 182 Verified Questions 182 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19540
Sample Questions Q1) The fact that workers today are able to access employment insurance benefits as well as enjoy higher wages and less oppressive working conditions than workers in earlier centuries leads to which of the following? A) a critique of the inevitability of a worker revolution B) a critique of the inevitability of a capitalist society C) a critique of communism D) a critique of capitalism Answer: A Q2) What was revealed by Durkheim's sociological study of suicide? A) that only the mentally unstable commit suicide B) that what may be the influence of social behaviour is actually the influence of individual understandings and biography C) that what is thought to be individual behaviour is actually influenced by social forces D) that suicide cannot be predicted Answer: C Q3) Define sociology. Answer: Answers will vary. To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
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Chapter 2: Culture Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 175 Verified Questions 175 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19541
Sample Questions Q1) Harris's analysis of cow worship in rural India illustrates how functionalist theory can explain otherwise mysterious social patterns, and it teaches a valuable lesson about which of the following? A) sociocultural evolution B) ethnocentrism C) cultural universals D) multiculturalism Answer: B Q2) Failing to present a more balanced picture of our history, cultures, and society that reflects Canada's ethnic and racial diversity in our school and college curricula is an example of which of the following? A) cultural diversification B) ethnocentrism C) multiculturalism D) cultural solidarity Answer: B Q3) Define rationalization. Answer: Answers will vary To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 4
Chapter 3: Socialization Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 186 Verified Questions 186 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19542
Sample Questions Q1) According to the Spitz research on infants and young children, social deprivation creates developmental delays and which of the following? A) increased health-related problems leading to death B) resistance to caring contact C) hyper-sexuality D) attention deficit disorder Answer: A Q2) Which of the following is the most important factor in the relative decline in importance of the family as a primary agent of socialization? A) the expansion of participation of Canadians in postsecondary education, especially after 1950 B) the expansion of the participation of women in the work force, especially after 1950 C) the introduction of publicly funded health care after WW2 D) the introduction of mandatory education after WW1 Answer: B Q3) What is socialization? Answer: Answers will vary. To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
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Chapter 4: From Social Interaction to Social Organizations Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 164 Verified Questions 164 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19543
Sample Questions Q1) Which of the following best describes groupthink? A) a bureaucracy's formal rules B) a primary group's informal rules C) pressure for people to conform despite individual misgivings D) rigid views regarding how members of certain groups act Q2) Interactions among high school cliques provide excellent examples of boundary creation processes among in-groups and out-groups. A)True B)False Q3) Organizations with flat network structures have an advantage over traditional bureaucratic structures. Which of the following reasons best explains why flat network structures are more efficient than bureaucratic hierarchies? A) Flat network structures employ young, innovative workers. B) Flat network structures encourage multitasking. C) Flat network structures are highly specialized. D) Flat network structures have lines of communication that link all units of the organization. Q4) Explain how status cues are useful and how stereotypes are damaging. Q5) Briefly describe the Asch experiment. What does it tell us about conformity? 6 click on the resource link above. To view all questions and flashcards with Page answers,
Chapter 5: Deviance and Crime Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 165 Verified Questions 165 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19544
Sample Questions Q1) Although white-collar crime costs society more than street crime, white-collar criminals are infrequently prosecuted or convicted. A)True B)False Q2) Critique control theorist Hirschi's argument that adolescents are incompletely socialized and are therefore more likely to become deviant. Investigate the relationship of such premises with the structure of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Q3) Which of the following best characterizes the comparison of female and male criminals? A) Female criminals are just as violent as male criminals. B) Women are more likely to engage in prostitution. C) Women are more likely to engage in white-collar crime. D) Male criminals are less violent than female criminals. Q4) Those who participated in the planned extermination of the Jews, Romani, and homosexuals in Nazi Germany were behaving as law-abiding citizens at that time. A)True B)False Q5) Outline the argument against capital punishment. To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 7
Chapter 6: Social Stratification-Canadian and Global Perspectives Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 174 Verified Questions 174 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19545
Sample Questions Q1) Explain what shipwreck stories like Titanic teach us about the inevitability of social stratification. Q2) What is one's social status based on in a closed society? A) membership in a favoured group B) education C) ascription D) race Q3) Briefly describe the factors that have enabled underdeveloped former colonies to make headway in their development to semiperipheral status. Q4) Use a comparison of modernization theory and dependency theory to explain how the internal characteristics of impoverished countries "blame the victim rather than the perpetrator of the crime." Q5) Find evidence to support the conflict theory criticism of the functional theory of stratification. Q6) As the Canadian economy moves from a resources economy to being more knowledge-driven, education will continue to grow in importance. A)True B)False
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Chapter 7: Race and Ethnicity Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 173 Verified Questions 173 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19546
Sample Questions Q1) Sociologists define an ethnic group as a group of people whose ethnic markers are deemed socially significant. A)True B)False Q2) Which of the following prevents assimilation by segregating the colonized from the colonizers in terms of jobs, housing, and social contacts? A) racism B) internal colonialism C) ethnocentrism D) cultural genocide Q3) Research the two referendums that have been held in Quebec. What reasons have been given for the difference in the results from 1980 and then 1995? What is the level of support for independence in Quebec today? Do these differences tell us anything about the degree of ethnic stratification in Quebec? Q4) Which kind of internal colonialism did Afro-Canadians experience before 1833? A) accommodation B) expulsion C) slavery D) genocide To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 9
Chapter 8: Sexuality and Gender Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 202 Verified Questions 202 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19547
Sample Questions Q1) What term is used for a social barrier that makes it difficult for female managers to rise to the top level of management? A) gender barricade B) sexist office C) gender escalator D) glass ceiling Q2) Which of the following is consistent with a person's sexuality? A) hormones, chromosomes, and physiology B) culturally appropriate behaviour and attitudes C) sexual desires and behaviours D) self-definition Q3) Describe the impact of the way that parents, especially fathers, encourage their children to play. Q4) The highest incidence of sexual assault occurs where norms justify the domination of women. A)True B)False Q5) List the advantages of single-sex schooling for girls. Q6) Explain what is needed to successfully bridge the gender gap in Canada. Page 10 Q7) Identify the age at which gender identity begins to develop. To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 9: Families Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 188 Verified Questions 188 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19548
Sample Questions Q1) What are the terms used for the three main types of domestic violence? A) argument, escalated taunting, and battery B) heated debate, light battery, brutal battery C) soft violence, entrapment, and battery D) common couple violence, intimate terrorism, and violent resistance Q2) Which of the following is the primary provider and ultimate authority in a traditional nuclear family? A) the mother B) the most senior male member of the extended family C) the matriarch of the family line D) the father Q3) Because about 80 percent of women who are mothers of school-aged children are in the work force, the traditional nuclear family is the family type of a very small minority of Canadian families. A)True B)False Q4) Describe the trends of the marriage, divorce, and fertility rates in Canada since the latter half of the nineteenth century. Q5) Explain when and why love became an important component of marriage. 11 click on the resource link above. To view all questions and flashcards with Page answers,
Chapter 10: Religion and Education Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 192 Verified Questions 192 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19549
Sample Questions Q1) As material conditions improved for people living in medieval and early modern Europe, what happened to popular belief in magic, astrology, and witchcraft? A) It increased as a means for making sense of life. B) It was eradicated by the Inquisition. C) It gradually lost ground as a force in people's lives. D) It came to coexist with Christian beliefs. Q2) Give an example of a totem and an example of a ritual. Q3) Review the controversy around making school uniforms compulsory. Justify your stand that uniforms will, or will not, reduce "stereotype threat." Q4) Christianity and Islam both demonstrate a low tolerance for other religions and both are examples of which of the following? A) sects B) denominations C) ecclesia D) cults Q5) Outline the functions of education according to functionalist theory. Q6) Provide evidence that religion has traditionally enforced the subordination of women. To view all questions and flashcards withPage answers, 12 click on the resource link above.
Chapter 11: Health and Medicine Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 169 Verified Questions 169 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19550
Sample Questions Q1) As people move down the social hierarchy, health deteriorates and death rates increase. Which of the following is also associated with a lower position on the social hierarchy? A) increased reliance on prenatal care B) higher levels of stress C) more incidences of schizophrenia D) lower IQ Q2) Hospitals are not as clean as they used to be. What was introduced in the 1950s that caused hospital cleanliness to cease being the top priority? A) antibiotics B) disinfectant soap C) morphine D) sulfa drugs Q3) Social isolation affects one's chance of becoming ill and dying prematurely. What type of social cause of illness and death is this? A) public health B) human-environmental C) health care system D) lifestyle To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 13
Chapter 12: The Mass Media Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 166 Verified Questions 166 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19551
Sample Questions Q1) What is media convergence? Why is it taking place? Q2) What do we call the practice of a single corporation owning businesses that operate in different commercial sectors? A) deregulation B) horizontal integration C) globalization D) vertical integration Q3) How is mass media communication accomplished typically? A) through one-way channels B) through two-way channels C) through complex channels D) through omnidirectional channels Q4) Describe the three main factors in the rise of the mass media. Q5) Outline the historical development of mass media. Q6) Which of the following best summarizes the way that black women have been portrayed in mass media? A) Their portrayal has become confined to a few stereotypes. B) Their portrayal has remained the same over time. C) Their portrayal has been consistently negative. 14 D) Their portrayal has been contested byPage alternative portrayals. To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 13: Technology, the Environment, and Social Movements Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper 195 Verified Questions 195 Flashcards Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/19552
Sample Questions Q1) Which of the following terms is used to describe the situation people find themselves in when rising expectations are met by a widening gap between the social rewards expected and those received? A) symbolic deprivation B) relative deprivation C) normalized dissatisfaction D) solidarity dislocation Q2) According to Ulrich Beck, which of the following is more worrisome than the fact that technologies are likely to fail sometimes? A) technological determinism B) environmental threats C) technological imperialism D) food shortages Q3) What term is used for enduring and usually organized collective attempts to change (or resist change to) part or all of the social order? A) social actions B) social movements C) social institutions D) social organizations Page 15 To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.