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Jersey College Sociology Final exam with answers
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Mixed economies - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔include socialist and government oriented programs but stem mainly from capitalistic features. *Iceland, France, the United Kingdom, USA Communist/Command - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔In the US., companies compete in producing goods and services based on margin, supply, and demand Capitalist/Mixed - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔In Denmark, college is free and is encouraged as a means of bettering the society by providing society with highly educated individuals and not profiting off students Feminist theorists - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔argue that work creates and reinforces sex inequality. Women earn less than men in every country, gender is the critical factor in explaining economic inequality. Conflict theorists - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔argue that capitalism creates social problems. low wages alienate employees, globalization leads to job insecurity...should employers have the right to random drug tests of employees?
Functionalist theorists - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔argue that work provides many societal benefits, wage inequities, motivate people to work harder. enhances society's economy, defines individual roles, provides social bonds, provides feelings of accomplishment and personal value Symbolic interactionists - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔analyze the day-to- day meaning of work (Symbolic) formal and informal rules that develop in workplaces - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔tattling, sweating (hard days work) social mobility (horizontal) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔moving from one position to another Ex: cashier at publix to a cosmetic counter employee at Macy's social mobility (vertical) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔moving up or down the stratification ladder. Ex: CNA TO RN after education an licensing Ascribed status (possible Master Status) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔is a position that we are born/naturally grow into- eg. Male *sex, Female *sex, Haitian, Taiwanese, American Indian, etc
city - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔: a geographic area where a large number of people live relatively permanently and make a living through nonagricultural activities urban sprawl - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the rapid, unplanned, and uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions. *People rapidly filling an urban area. #Trendy
. Life expectancy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- The average number of years that people who were born during a certain time are expected to live based on demographics Migration - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the movement of people into or out of a specific geographic area Caste system Stratification - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔closed system where people are ascribed, no one moves up or down open - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔