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28 Cards in this Set
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Lovaglia writes about the power of the situation over the individual. one component of this is what social psychologists call correspondence bias. which of these is the best description of correspondence bias?
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when an individual attributes their own behavior to situational factors, but the behavior of others to individual-level factors
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which of the following reflects goffman's conception of the self
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the self is a product of the scenes people find themselves in
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to Furstenberg et al, what is the primary reason for prolonged early adulthood
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it takes longer to secure a full time job that pays enough to support a family
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which of the following statements best reflects the position of Karl Marx regarding the relationship between social structure and culture
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marx believed that structural conditions were a source and explanation for cultural ideas
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According to Karen Sternheimer, why is it wrong to blame video games for school shootings and violence?
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a & d...most video games arent violent AND violence is removed from its context and attributed to media consumption alone
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why is it more difficult for middle and working class americans to save money
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job instability
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under feudalism, the lords did not reveive the profits from the land that they owned. who did?
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vassals
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according to the grusky reading, what are the three general components of a stratification system
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institutions, rules and definitions, stratification processes
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what is the best example of status crystallization
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because an individual has high status in one dimension, they will also have high status in other dimensions.
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which of the following statements are true
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status inequalities depend on the existence of positional inequalities
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according to block and colleagues, how big is the gap between two parent incomes at the minimum wage and the american dream line?
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26,000
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according to rank, which of the following is NOT a reason why the lifetime risk of poverty is so high in the US
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early retirement programs that push older people out of the labor market
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according to contexts, which of the following were a major limitation of the research comparing purchases of GWC socks and unmarked socks in the michigan department store experiment
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most of the customers did not notice or understand the GWC label
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after surveying the role of the sexes in the domestic, political and ideological sectors of a wide range of societies, sociologists conclude that the subordination of women is
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-characteristic only of stratified societies
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the status of women is lowest in horticultural societies that practice
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patrilineal decent
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the relative status of women rises and falls with
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their relative economic contributions to the group
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in matrilineal societies, a married adult male is a member of his
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mothers matrilineage
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in a matrilineal system, the male that assumes primary responsibility for the upbringing of children is
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the childs maternal uncle
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the _____, also known as hypodescent, was a common law in the south that considered any black person if he or she had any known black african ancestry. this meant that racially mixed people are always assigned the status of the subordinate group
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one drop rule
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from among the following descriptions, choose the one that best describes the mail survey, a data collection method that was utilized in Duncan and Duerdens (1990) research
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the low cost to conduct a mail survey makes it appealing
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according to clawson and gertsel, which of the following statements are true
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childcare in the US is fragmentory and the quality of care is poor
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why is it difficult for sure that growing up in a single parent family causes problems among children
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both conditions (single parenthood and problems with children) could be caused by other factors
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which of the following statements best reflects the reasons why there have been declines in sexual activity among american teenagers
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virginity among boys increased dramatically
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jerry jacob, which of the following statements are true regarding college education among young men and women
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women earn more bachelor's degrees than men do and have since the early 1980s
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what are some of the problems associated with the label "model minority" as it is applied to asians in the US
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(all of the above)
-it reinforces the myth that the US is devoid of racism -it holds asians to higher standards than whites -it can channel asians toward specific avenues of success |
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which of the following are reasons why more people are reporting multiracial backgrounds when asked about their race on surveys and census forms
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increased rates of racial intermarriage
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according to rosenfeld, which of the following are not major reasons cited for the decline in crime rates since the early 1990s
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better schools
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which of the following statements best summarizes the argument of westen and pettit
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the growth of the panal system has hidden the extent of economic inequality
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