Sociology Unit Test Flashcards

The Horatio Alger myth is the belief that through hard work, anyone can become successful. It makes people look down on those who have not achieved material success because they assume that the poor simply haven't worked hard enough.

It showed the story of a hard-working man who could not get ahead.

Conflict theory views those in power as suppressing those who aren't, while Functionalism sees stratification as necessary for our social institutions to function.

<p>Social classes exist and behave according to our definitions of them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>We make connections within our classes that impact future opportunities. Our parenting reinforces our positions. Our wealth impacts quality of and access to education.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Marx believed that society was divided into two conflicting classes: the proletariat and the bourgeois, or the workers and the capitalists. Weber saw class as more complex, depending on the three P's: power, property, and prestige.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Women have historically been afforded fewer opportunities than men, and the same applies to non-white races. These practices continue to be reinforced through tradition and perception.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A select few from the corporate, military, and political worlds who have all the power in the United States.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As media corporations fall into fewer hands, an elite few control the distribution of information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Common people are given a far-reaching voice on the internet through blogging, Facebook, Twitter, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>More women are heading impoverished households.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The estate system is based on noble birth and land ownership; slavery is based on the ownership of others; the caste system is based on birth into a particular caste. There is some room for social mobility in each of these systems except for the caste system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unemployment is when someone cannot find a job, while underemployment is when someone is working fewer hours than they need or they are overqualified for their position.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conflict theory sees aging as a struggle between the old and the young for resources; functionalists believe retirement paves the way for a new generation of workers; symbolic interactionists believe age is a social construction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If we see the elderly only in terms of media-perpetuated stereotypes, then we undervalue their potential social contributions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Kubler-Ross believed that people experience five stages when coping with death: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When colonialism fell out of favor, industrialized nations began to dominate non-industrialized nations economically and culturally—this is neocolonialism. Multinational corporations work across international boundaries, but industrialized nations see most of the profit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It divides the world into four groups: Care Nations (the first to industrialize), Semiperiphery (nations around the Mediterranean that traded with core nations), Periphery (sold cash crops to core nations), and External Area (left out of capitalist development). It states that the globalization of capitalism led to connections among all countries.</p> Signup and view all the answers