Sociology Quiz! Best answers gets my points!?

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1. which perspective focuses on the interaction of race, class, and gender in the disadvantages faced by women?

A. liberal feminism
b. radical feminism
c. black feminism
d. parsonian fuctionalism

2. The earlier classification of humans into 4 racial groups emerged from the writing of:
a. a random sample of european and african explorers
b. the leading economists from 4 continents
c. slave traders and missionaries
d. christopher columbus and charles darwin

3. _______ often involves ________, the unconscious attribution to others of one's own desires or characteristics.
a. institutional racism; situational ethnicity
b. symbolic ethnicity; individual racism
c. stereotypican thinking; displacement
d. scapegoating; projection

4. what are the sociologically defined characteristics of a minority group?
a. Any group that is less than 50% of the population
b. Any ethnic or racial group.
c. a disadvantaged group.
d. immigrant groups.

5. ________ is a model in which ethnic cultures have a distinct and seperate existence while their members participate in the economic and political life of the larger society.
a. genocide
b. assimilation
c. segregation
d. pluralism

6. which of the following immigrant groups were not subjected to prejudice and discrimination by those who were already established in the United States?
a. irish
b. italians
c. chinese
d. dutch

7. What is the term for a group of people directly linked by kin connections, the adult members of which assume responsibility for caring for children?
a. kinship
b. family
c. marriage
d. globalization

8. arlie hochschild found that _______ is creating pressure on american workers to work longer hours than they did previously.
a. ambition
b. the mass media
c. the education system
d. globalization

9. Which latino group has more wealth in family business ownership, lower levels of fertility, and low levels of nonmarital fertility compared with other latinos?
a. mexican americans
b. puerto ricans
c. cuban americans
d. salvadorenos

10. Which of the following is NOT a reason that divorce rates have risen over the last few decades?
a. changes in the law have made getting a divorce easier.
b. marriage today has less to do with handing down property and status from generation to generation, except for the wealthy
c. women are more economically independent now, and marriage is less of an economic necessity for them.
d. individuals are more likely to sign prenuptial agreements than they were previously, making division of assets after divorce much easier.

11. Nearly 1 in 3 families with dependent children are:
a. single parent households
b. living in poverty
c. extended families
d. matrilocal families

12. who is more likely to get divorced?
a. people whose parents never divorced
b. people who cohabit before marriage
c. people who marry at an older age
d. people in interracial marriages

13. Emile Durkheim's theory of religion, which connected it with the overall nature of the institutions of a society, is an example of the ______ tradition
a. monotheistic
b. polytheistic
c. marxist
d. functionalist

14. which of the following sociological theorists embarked on a massive study of religions worldwide?
a. Karl Marx
b. Emile Durkheim
c. Max Weber
d. Jonathan Kozol

15. who would most likely assert that capitalism and industrialization expanded faster in countries where protestantism, rather than catholicism, dominated that country?
a. Karl Marx
b. Emile Durkheim
c. Max Weber
d. Siddartha Gautama