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Social Stratification
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Social Stratification explores the structured forms of social inequality found in societies, examining how resources, opportunities, and privileges are distributed across different groups and classes. The course analyzes the causes and consequences of stratification based on factors such as class, race, ethnicity, gender, and age, drawing on classical and contemporary sociological theories. Students will investigate the persistence of inequalities, the mobility within and between social strata, and how institutions like education, labor markets, and political systems contribute to or challenge existing stratification systems.
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Readings for Sociology 7th Edition by Garth Massey
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Chapter 1: The Study of Sociology
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Q1) The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was carried out:
A) over a forty-year period, from the 1930s into the 1970s
B) in several poor countries in Africa and Southeast Asia
C) by private doctors and pharmaceutical companies
D) with the full understanding by all the research subjects participating in the project that it had potential risks as well as benefits
E) All of the above are features of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Answer: A
Q2) Based on Durkheim's argument, one could conclude that individuals:
A) have a natural inclination to fight and make war rather than seek peaceful solutions
B) have little choice but to conform to society's demands
C) are largely responsible for their own actions-good and bad
D) have basic animal instincts which compel them to keep in close contact with one another, form families, towns, and organizations, and pursue collaborative leisure activities
4) The Stranger GEORG SIMMEL
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Culture and Society
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Q1) The most profound effect of Nike advertising, according to Goldman and Papson, is its ability to make people feel:
A) connected to a global community, humanity, and the "family of man"
B) guilty about themselves, but convinced that Nike products are a path to forgiveness
C) morally superior to those who don't "get the joke"
D) abstract, timeless, and otherworldly
Answer: A
Q2) Anderson sees much of the code of the streets as an effort to:
A) avoid crime and prison
B) acquire the good things in life-material affluence and security
C) escape the ghetto
D) gain respect
Answer: D
Q3) The code of the streets applies to whom?
A) police and social workers who try to help solve urban problems
B) a small portion of inner-city youth
C) anyone who wants to be successful
D) women (and a few men) who have lost hope of ever having a family and a home
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Growing up Social
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Q1) Montemurro's article focuses on:
A) shopping as a cultural ritual, whether it is for the latest fashionable clothing or for antiques
B) the behaviors and feelings of participants at bachelorette parties
C) birthday celebrations at which a young person receives gifts that signify his or her new identity as an adult
D) the return to work of middle-age women, often to jobs that are unconventional but deeply satisfying
Answer: B
Q2) Organized sports provide young men with:
A) attention and an ability to attract the interest of females
B) escape from parental demands and nagging about homework and getting an afterschool job
C) recognition and acceptance, but only if they are as good as or better than others
D) All of the above are true, according to Messner
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Social Interaction and Identity
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Q1) "I'm sorry" is what part of a remedial interchange?
A) challenge
B) acceptance
C) offering
D) closing
Q2) According to Goffman, what does it mean to present a "face"?
A) to present an identity that one wants others to accept
B) to put forward an image that masks or hides how onereally feels
C) to challenge what another person says by making facial expressions communicating disbelief or doubt
D) To summon the courage to defy others' expectations and to go one's own way
Q3) According to Twigg's essay, bathing can be understood as:
A) a pleasant experience, a luxury or a time of relaxation
B) hygiene, or simply getting clean and ridding oneself of dirt, bacteria, and unhealthy smells
C) a rite of passage or a transition from one situation to another, for example from sinner to saved
D) a form of punishment or a penalty to pay
E) All of the above are meanings attached to bathing
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Chapter 5: Social Inequality and Labor
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Q1) In Chambliss's study, he observed that:
A) the saints were female and the roughnecks were males
B) the saints were upper-middle-class youth and the roughnecks were working-class and poor youth
C) the young people were saints by day and roughnecks by night and on the weekend
D) the young people were saints in their parents' and teachers' eyes and roughnecks in their own eyes
Q2) Gans argues that:
A) the label "undeserving," when attached to poor persons, provides an excuse for not trying to solve the problem of poverty itself
B) poverty has always been a "testing ground" for personal worth and the will to work hard in order to succeed
C) many cultural innovations (e.g. music, fashion, and literature) come from people who are considered poor in material terms but are rich in creativity
D) poverty causes the non-poor to think about social problems and take steps to help solve these problems through their churches, schools, and community organizations
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Chapter 6: Social Control and Organizational Power
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Q1) The region described by Glennon is:
A) a Minnesota farming area
B) one block of offices and corporate headquarters in New York City
C) South America, including Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru
D) the transportation corridor linking southern Illinois farms, Chicago, and the St. Lawrence Seaway
Q2) The Disney World described by Shearing and Stenning is, in a word:
A) fun
B) expensive
C) educational
D) controlling
E) yesterday
Q3) The individuals discussed in Rhodes's essay are:
A) incarcerated in maximum security prisons
B) stay-at-home mothers who often feel cut off from the world around them
C) autistic children whose ability to express themselves is very restricted
D) living in poor parts of central cities but with no means to escape for a better life
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Chapter 7: Social Institutions
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Q1) Gupta describes marital practices in India:
A) that exist and are widespread today
B) that perpetuate the subjugation of women and condemn young girls to a life that is barely different from slavery
C) among the elite; the less affluent cannot afford the practices the author describes D) that are based on the Kama Sutra or "book of love," which emphasizes physical pleasure and sexual experiences
Q2) Why have some societies shunned the idea of marrying for love?
A) love between two people can reduce their loyalty and commitment to the larger family or group that depends on them to work effectively
B) men prefer having the privilege of falling in love with many women without the obligation of marrying them
C) most of the people in these societies are poor; they use marriage to boost their economic situation by finding a mate wealthier than they are D) marriage occurs years before a person is capable of loving a person outside their family
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Chapter 8: Social Change
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Q1) Walker reveals how:
A) citizens are increasingly recognizing that corporations have created many of the problems they face, and beginning to mobilize to oppose corporate actions
B) corporations are able to make citizen participation in a social movement less costly by paying many of the expenses and taking care of planning and organizational details
C) corporations are increasingly using their resources to support causes that benefit the people around the world who are most in need of health, security, education, jobs, and freedom
D) nonprofit organizations learn how to operate more effectively by adopting business practices
Q2) Edward Walker's "Industry-Driven Activism" describes the sociological phenomenon of:
A) deviant behavior
B) corporate organization
C) entrepreneurial innovation
D) social movements
E) the military-industrial complex
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