Recent social protests in the United States are being called the 99 movement. The name of the movement points to the fact that only 1 of households in the country have incomes of over a million dollars a year. This movement's claims point to long-term inequalities and disadvantages based on class in our society. Which paradigm is represented in this story?
a. conflict theory
b. ethical protest
c. survival of the fittest
d. social psychology
e. concentric zone theory
Question 2means anticipated or intended.
a. Latent
b. Manifest
c. Function
d. Dysfunction
Question 3W. E. B. DuBois believed that this group had primary responsibility for changing the place of African Americans in American society.
a. African Americans.
b. branches of government
c. the NAACP
d. the military, because they rule
e. whites, because they hold the power
Question 4Poor people often volunteer' for overthecounter and prescription drug tests.. From a functionalist perspective, this statement is describing
a. a faade of legitimacy.
b. the negotiated order.
c. a function of poverty.
d. human nature.
Question 5In recent cases in the United States, older women employed as teachers have been prosecuted for having sexual relationships with young male students under the age of consent. If we believe in Durkheim's theory, which of the following would we seek to explain this social problem?
a. how individual mental disturbances could be generalized
b. how female teachers are influenced by norms and social ties
c. how single women adapt to environmental opportunity
d. how working-class youth are exploited by better educated classes
e. how the symbolic segregation of students and teachers is a pattern
Question 6According to functionalists, poverty exists because
a. the poor are largely unmotivated to work.
b. it contributes in some way to the stability of an existing social order.
c. the poor lack the drive to do better.
d. somebody has to be on the bottom.
Question 7Where hillsides have been cleared to provide lumber for housing, rain often causes mud-slides. Sociologists would regard mudslides as:
a. the negative effects of global warming, which has increased rainfall nationally.
b. a cost which has to be borne by some members of society for the common good.
c. a bad method of securing lumber.
d. a major outcome of a clash of values over which policies are best for America.
e. a latent outcome of cutting trees on hillsides where rain is a possibility.
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