Schooling can be a liberating or an impoverishing experience.

Schooling can be a liberating or an impoverishing experience.
 
  a. True
  b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

James sees someone overweight by 100 pounds and labels them as lazy. In sociological terms being 100 pounds overweight is a
 
  a. stigma.
  b. crime.
  c. structural strain.
  d. label.

Question 3

In studying private schools, sociologists inspired by the __________ perspective focus on the experience of going to private schools and how that experience shapes the sense of self and personal biography.
 
  a. functionalist
  b. conflict
  c. symbolic interactionist
  d. feminist

Question 4

In 1956 Rosa Parks was arrested for taking an empty, uncontested seat in the front of the bus. Her case supports the idea that
 
  a. deviance is incomprehensible.
  b. deviance is impossible to study.
  c. context and audience matter in defining a behavior as deviant.
  d. it is important to get into the mind of the person labeled as deviant.

Question 5

Sociologists influenced by a __________ perspective place focus on identifying the kinds of private schools that are best structured to erase or perpetuate gender inequalities.
 
  a. functionalist
  b. conflict
  c. symbolic interactionist
  d. feminist

Question 6

When studying deviance sociologists
 
  a. take an anything goes approach to behavior.
  b. seek to capture the complex dynamics underlying definitions of deviance.
  c. cast judgements on deviants.
  d. seek to make a list of behaviors that are everywhere considered deviant.