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1. Who are the working poor?
2. According to Talcott Parsons - each of the following applies to persons who play the sick role - (E)XCEPT
3. All of the following statements regarding the relationship between age and poverty in the United States are true - EXCEPT
4. In the United States - males traditionally are expected to demonstrate aggressiveness - whereas females are expected to be passive and nurturing - which illustrates the concept of
5. All of the following are factors that have eroded the American Dream for the middle class - (E)XCEPT
6. The United States has a larger homeless population today than in earlier times because of
7. In Max Weber’s stratification typology - which class consists of skilled - semiskilled - and unskilled workers?
8. According to Karl Marx’s theory of class relations -
9. The means through which power is acquired and exercised by some people and groups is
10. Preference for emotional sexual relationships with members of the opposite sex (heterosexuality) - the same sex (homosexuality) - or both sexes (bisexuality) is one’s
11. The process by which some characteristics of a profession are eliminated is
12. Which sociological perspective would study how educational institutions help to maintain the privilege of some groups - while keeping others in a lower position?
13. According to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
14. A group to which a person does NOT belong and toward which the person may feel a sense of competitiveness or hostility is
15. An estimate of the average lifetime in years of people born in a specific year is
16. According to urban sociologists - a city is
17. The role of a health club or golf club as a meeting ground for people seeking new business contacts is an example of
18. Which of the following is Emile Durkheim’s term for those aspects of life that are extraordinary or supernatural?
19. According to Ferdinand Tönnies - Gemeinschaft refers to
20. The hierarchical arrangement of large social groups based on their control over basic resources is
21. The scholar Auguste Comte
22. The number of people living in a specific geographic area (for example - people per square mile) is
23. A football coach is happy to work with African-(A)merican players - but feels that white fans will accept only a certain percentage of people of color on the team - thus affecting his hiring practices. According to sociologist Robert Merton - this coach is
24. Large computer software corporations are representative of twenty-first century capitalism - which increasingly is based on
25. The process by which a person mentally assumes the role of another person in order to understand the world from that person’s point of view is referred to as

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