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SOCS185 Culture and Society

Week 7 Quiz  

Question 1Today, increasing affluence, better nutrition, and more sophisticated medical expertise have increased the average _____ in rich countries.

  age cohort

  functional age

  life expectancy

  life stage

 Question 2Generation X is sometimes called the “baby bust” because they

  produced more children than any other generation.

  are a small age cohort.

  were deprived of luxuries as children.

  represent the largest generation, numerically.

 Question 3Socially, death is marked

  in very different ways across cultures and time periods.

  with weeping, wailing, and tearing off of clothes.

  with a joyful feast.

  with ritualistic markings on the body of the dead.

 Question 4Before the 20th century, elders without families to care for them

  were provided for by well-funded public retirement homes.

  were supported by hefty welfare payments from the state.

  would either enter a convent or monastery or become beggars.

  were given steady employment by the military.

 Question 5The AARP is an organization that

  advocates for gun owners.

  actively supports youth rights.

  advocates for the elderly.

  helps people in midlife crisis.

 Question 6In the most common, popular sense, a family is understood as a group of people who

  are related by blood or marriage.

  consist of a legally married couple and their children.

  live together and have emotional ties.

  share the same beliefs and traditions.

 Question 7Most gay and lesbian couples

  live in rural areas.

  are more egalitarian than heterosexual couples.

  are poorly educated and make little money.

  are likely to have children.

 Question 8Chris and Kelly are discussing who will run errands and who will take care of their child. They are engaging in

  time diary studies.

  the domestic division of labor.

  exogamy.

  endogamy.

 Question 9Current trends toward lower rates of both marriage and divorce in the United States are led by the

  unemployed.

  working classes.

  middle classes.

  economic elite.

 Question 10E. D. Hirsch Jr.’s Dictionary of Cultural Literacy is biased in that it

  only selects the highest-quality cultural artifacts.

  lists almost entirely science fiction.

  mostly excludes racial minorities and nonWestern cultures.

  excludes wealthy white men.

 Question 11Which is true about girls in secondary education in poor versus rich countries?

  In poor countries, girls often do not have equal access, but they outnumber boys in rich countries.

  In poor countries, girls outnumber boys, but they do not have equal access in rich countries.

  Girls do not have equal access to secondary education in either poor or rich countries.

  Girls outnumber boys in secondary education in both poor and rich countries.

 Question 12Between 2007 and 2012, the number of schools educating students in same-sex environments

  dropped by 5%.

  dropped by 11%.

  remained at 2%, where it has been for decades.

  increased by 24%.

 Question 13Minority school children, especially boys, tend to believe that good school performance

  has no effect on their personal identity or social life.

  reinforces and upholds their strong sense of ethnic identity.

  is a challenge to or betrayal of their ethnic identity.

  is important because they want to leave behind their ethnic identity.

 Question 14When Correll compared the way men and women with the same math test scores assessed themselves, she found that

  women were more likely to assess themselves positively, and grades had no impact.

  men were more likely to assess themselves positively, and grades had no impact.

  women were less likely to assess themselves positively, and grades had a bigger impact on this for women than for men.

  men were less likely to assess themselves positively, and grades had a bigger impact on men’s self-assessment.

 Question 15In an agricultural economy, farmers can use their crops to pay for the services of potters, builders, or priests. This exemplifies

  conspicuous consumption.

  inequality.

  division of labor.

  competition.

 Question 16The unemployment rate is calculated by

  adding up all of the employees that corporations say they have laid off.

  dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labor force.

  counting the number of homeless people visible in major cities and multiplying by 2.

  studying the loss of sales in consumer goods, indicating fewer people working.

 Question 17Someone who is tokenized in the workplace

  has much more privilege than others.

  is seen as an individual, not as part of a group.

  must outperform coworkers to be perceived as equal.

  is comfortably in the majority.

 Question 18The way religious identity impacts and is impacted by other aspects of identity including gender, sexuality, race, and class exemplifies the sociological concept of

  identity.

  institutions.

  inequality.

  intersections.

 Question 19If you take it for granted that blasphemy laws seem like a thing of the past, you live in a society that understands

  there is only one true religion.

  speaking against God is not a sin.

  the Church should be in charge of politics.

  politics and religion are separate social realms.

 Question 20According to your text, participatory democracy can only work in what kind of population or group?

  Small, heterogeneous

  Large, heterogeneous

  Large, homogeneous

  Small, homogeneous

 Question 21What proportion of Americans have switched religious denomination?

  1 in 3

  1 in 5

  1 in 7

  1 in 10

Question 22Small-scale political acts in the context of everyday life that connect us to political life can be referred to as

  everyday secularism.

  secular religion.

  civil religion.

  everyday politics.

 Question 23In most European countries, the population growth rate is

  very high (very rapid growth).

  somewhat high (moderate to somewhat rapid growth).

  fairly stable (little growth).

  negative (shrinking populations).

Chapter 16: 16-1 The Human Environment

Question 24According to Herbert Gans, social networks in cities are _____ compared to social networks in small towns.

  much larger

  about the same size

  somewhat smaller

  much smaller

 Question 25In which type of area is air pollution concentrated?

  Urban

  Suburban

  Rural

  Wilderness