Sociology Exam
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1. Elite prostitutes-young - attractive - and well-educated women are widely referred to as

2. Sociologist lenore weitzman carried out research showing that women who divorce

3. Which sociologist developed the approach called dramaturgical analysis

4. The tendency of bureaucratic organizations to perpetuate themselves in order to keep going is called bureaucratic

5. The global region in which the greatest reduction in poverty has taken place is

6. The ways in which sexuality is linked to social inequality is highlighted by

7. The development of breasts in females and deeper voices in males are examples of

8. The symbolic-interaction approach focuses on how

9. A good example of the culture theory of prejudice is

10. In general - high-income people tend to be _____ on social issU.S. and _____ on economic issues

11. Max weber argued that formal organizations were efficient - but he cautioned that they can have harmful effects on people. As he saw it - what is the danger

12. The first type of society to generate material surplus was

13. A judge orders that an offender to be sentenced to prison for a short time - with most of the sentence served on probation. This sentence reflects a policy called

14. A power-elite model of the U.S. political system suggests that

15. The sapir-whorf thesis states that

16. Capitalist societies base their claim to democracy on

17. According to the film - communal property was replaced by

18. In his global study of how societies view gender - george murdock found

19. During the last 50 years - japanese formal organizations have differed from those in the U.S. by being

20. The concept of "gerontocracy" refers to a society in which

21. Among all forms of life - humans stand out as the only species that

22. What concept refers to a social position that is received at birth or involuntarily assumed later in life

23. The text suggests that the most widely contested issue involving sexuality in the U.S. in recent years has been

24. Following max weber's analysis of religion - we could say industrial capitalism is

25. The U.S. is not truly pluralistic because