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WorksheetsSocio Final
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
The main argument of Allan Johnson’s assigned reading is that to better understand poverty, we should pay more attention to:
How hard people work
How economic systems are organized
How people spend or save their money
What career choices people make
In the assigned reading, what is Johnson’s attitude toward liberal and conservative approaches to poverty?
Johnson believed conservatives have a better approach to poverty
Johnson believed both liberal and conservative approaches to poverty focus too much on economic systems
Johnson believed both liberal and conservative approaches to poverty focus too much on individuals
Johnson believed liberals have a better approach to poverty
Johnson used what two game metaphors in the assigned reading on poverty:
Football and basketball
Musical chairs and red rover
A footrace and a horserace
Musical chairs and a footrace
According to the assigned reading by William Roy, Max Weber suggested three dimensions of social class, which are:
Economic class, social status, and political power
Economic class, political power, and social influence
Economic class, social status, and social influence
Occupation, social status, and political power
According to the assigned reading by William Roy, the creation of class societies required a “caging effect,” which means:
The development of a social control system involving imprisonment
The ability distinguish local culture from other societies’ culture
People couldn’t easily move out of the society to avoid being exploited
The ability to domesticate animals
According to the assigned reading by William Roy, capitalism replaced the pre-capitalist “moral economy,” which involved:
The community having a moral obligation to provide employment to all workers
Morality being conceived as a metaphorical marketplace
Sellers having a moral obligation to sell for a “fair” price
Buyers having a moral obligation to buy from local sellers
During the lecture on the myth of meritocracy, the instructor suggested that if life is a race to get ahead, it is a:
Marathon
Relay race
Shuttle hurdles
Stock car race
According to lecture, which of the following is NOT true about race?
Race is a classification system based on the idea that certain physical traits are markers of essential differences between categories of people
Actual biological variability doesn’t conform to our racial categories
Race is biologically ficticious
Race is socially real
All of the above are true
The lecture on Race & Racism included this quote from Heather McGee: “A once-public resource became a luxury amenity, and entire communities lost out on the benefits of public life and civic engagement once understood to be the key to making American democracy real.” To what was McGee referring?
Communities bulldozing community centers rather than allowing racially integrated events
Communities filling in swimming pools rather than allowing racially integrated swimming
Communities paving golf courses rather than allowing racially integrated golfing
Communities closing schools rather than allowing racially integrated education
The sociological term for process through which one learns how to act according to the rules and expectations of a particular culture regarding gender is:
Gender socialization
Gender identity
Gender expression
Gender manifestation
In the assigned reading, Michael Schwalbe makes what argument about how we use language to talk about different categories of people?
Arguments about language distract us from more important issues
Language is important it signals what sort of person the speaker is
Language is important because it represents moral background rules
Arguments about language annoy potential supporters of social change
In the assigned reading, Michael Schwalbe made what argument(s) about social change:
Change is always happening
The processes that perpetuate inequality also generate tensions that can lead to change
We may fail to see change because it happens gradually
Change is not always moving toward more freedom and equality
Schwalbe made all of the above arguments
One of the ideas Michael Schwalbe discusses in the assigned reading is “The Ten Times Rules.” This rule is that:
White people typically get to screw up ten times more than non-white people before facing consequences
White people typically get to screw up ten times more than non-white people before facing consequences
The maximum wage would be set to ten times the minimum wage
A CEO’s wage would be set to no more than ten times the wage of an average worker
In the assigned reading, Michael Schwalbe makes what argument about American values like democracy, equal opportunity, and community?
These American values should be rejected
These American values are a distant memory
We ought to take these American values more seriously
These American values are a trap
According to the assigned reading by William Roy on gender, an important moment in the development of modern Anglo-European ideas about masculinity and femininity was the separation of:
Confederacy and Union
Smoking rooms and drawing rooms
Public and private life
Science and religion
According to the assigned reading by William Roy on gender, the creation of Mother’s Day was viewed as an attack on:
Modern applicances
Single women
Women’s suffrage
Birth control
According to the assigned reading by William Roy on gender, successful manhood in the early United States was defined in terms of:
Being self-made
Athleticism
Usefulness
Toughness
In “Arresting the Imagination,” Michael Schwalbe refers to what Latin expression to describe many people’s distraction from societal inequality?
Carpe diem (“Seize the day”)
Memento mori (“Remember you will die”)
Alea iacta est (“The die is cast”)
Panem et circenses (“Bread and circuses”)
In “Arresting the Imagination,” Michael Schwalbe discusses how corporations may attempt to create doubt about the harm they are causing. He focuses on two specific examples, where are:
Cigarettes and climate change
Racism and sexism
Chem trails and weather control technology
Sports gambling and day trading
The main argument of the assigned reading, “Arresting the Imagination,” by Michael Schwalbe, is that inequality may be supported by:
Making inequality appear natural and inevitable
Disenfranchising the have-nots
Giving additional power to the haves
Capturing the state
In “Arresting the Imagination,” the assigned reading by Michael Schwalbe, what term does he use for belief systems that justify inequality?
Constitution
Ideology
Utopia
Dogma
In the assigned reading by Michael Schwalbe, what strategy for “arresting the imagination” is NOT discussed?
There’s gotta be a boss
There is no alternative to the current system
Losers in the economic system only have themselves to blame
Some types of people deserve inequality
All of the above strategies are discussed
In the assigned reading by Michael Schwalbe, he uses what metaphor to describe economic systems?
Rigged game
Protection racket
Sad trombone sound
Broken record
In the assigned reading, Michael Schwalbe suggests that we can better understand inequality by looking at:
The participants in the game
The strategies of the game
The spirit of the game
The rules of the game
According to the assigned reading by Michael Schwalbe, the term “redlining” refers to which of the following?
Property appraisal maps that indicated in red the neighborhoods where African-Americans lived
Zoning maps that relegated pollution-producing industry to black neighborhoods
The line between privileged and non-privileged college applicants
Line between the personhood of humans and corporations
According to the assigned reading by Peggy McIntosh, her analysis of white privilege was inspired by:
Her childhood experience with a black friend
A trip through the South
Her experience with men failing to recognize their privilege
Working with students of different races
Which of the following are claims Peggy McIntosh makes about white privilege in the assigned reading?
Privilege is like an invisible package of unearned assets
White privilege may make white people feel at home in the world
White privilege may allow white people to escape penalties or dangers that others suffer
McIntosh makes all of the above claims about white privilege
The assigned reading on privilege by Peggy McIntosh includes 46 examples of white privilege and eight examples of what other type of privilege?
Christian privilege
Heterosexual privilege
American privilege
Middle-class privilege
According to the assigned reading on “Race” by William Roy, what is true of “whiteness”?
Whiteness is a social constructon
Some European immigrants were not immediately categorized as white
The Irish becoming white involved becoming anti-black
Whiteness is often taken-for-granted
All of the above are true of whiteness
According to the assigned reading on “Race” by William Roy, housing segregation occurs because:
People naturally want to live near people like themselves
Racial minorities naturally want to live near people like themselves
Race and class intersected in housing markets
Neighborhood housing restrictions were created in the early 20th Century
All of the above
According to the assigned reading on “Race” by William Roy, African-Americans have been stereotyped as:
Docile and childlike
Menacing and threatening
Incapable of functioning in the white world
Lazy
All of the above, since stereotypes are flexible
According to the assigned reading by William Roy, which of the following is NOT true of the concept of race?
Members of a race share particular physical characteristics
Members of a race inherit their racial status
Members of a race share behavioral characteristics imputed to their physical quallties
Races are ranked hierarchically
All of the above are true of the concept of race
Which statement best describes William Roy’s theory in the assigned reading about the creation of race?
The enslavement of Africans in North America led to the creation of race
The ancient Egyptians invented race
Categorizing people into races has always existed
The creation of race led to the slavery of Africans in North America
According to the assigned reading by William Roy, the English first developed the concept of “salvage” to characterize which group of people?
Africans
Irish
Indigenous North Americans
Chinese
According to the assigned reading by William Roy, the term for “art, music, literature, and other aesthetic forms that are considered refined, lofty, and high status” is:
Commercial culture
Elite culture
Highbrow culture
Cultivated culture
According to the assigned reading by William Roy, the term for “objects, titles, manners, and activities that members of a society interpret as bestowing prestige on the people who have or do them” is:
Status symbols
Cachet
Laurels
Honors
In the assigned reading, William Roy claimed that the Anglo-European idea of “absolute property” is unusual. According to this principle, the owner of property:
Has the right to own, but not sell, the property
Has the right to personal use of the property
Has the right to productive use of the property
Has all the rights, entitlements, and responsibilities connected to the property
