Quiz 3

Question 1

Gender roles

Answer 1

The social roles appropriate for men and women

Question 2

How are life changes and gender roles related?

Answer 2

They both impact the family structure and also race, religion, and cultural backgrounds mediate the impact of life chances in given populations

Question 3

What is a family

Answer 3

Any group of people related by birth, adoption, or marriage

Question 4

What are extended family

Answer 4

Extends to grandparents, aunt and uncles, and cousins

Question 5

What is a nuclear family?

Answer 5

The mother, father, and children

Question 6

What is a housing unit?

Answer 6

The physical space used as separate living space for people

Question 7

Households

Answer 7

People who share a housing unit

Question 8

What are ascribed characteristics

Answer 8

Sex gender, race and other physical aspects that can’t be changed (we are born with and have no control over)

Question 9

What are achieved characteristics?

Answer 9

Personal human Capitol or your SES characteristics such as occupation and education, income, martial status and life chances is directly related to this

Question 10

What changes have take place to change household types?

Answer 10

The change in family structure such as, There are less married people, more people living along, more non traditional families, and more female headed households

Question 11

What is gender equity?

Answer 11

Equal treatment/ pay for women compared to men

Question 12

Cohabitation

Answer 12

Sharing of a household by unmarried persons who have a sexual relationship

Question 13

What has changed family structure?

Answer 13

The rise of “out of wedlock” births that can happen among younger women with the no use of contraception and lack of local access to abortion

Question 14

Childlessness

Answer 14

There is a good amount of couples who are childless and this often happens when woman post pones having the first child and there is less pressure for her to have a child and increases the diversity of household types

Question 15

Divorce

Answer 15

It has gone done over time and some factors for divorces are low income , early age of marriage, lack of similarity, and cohabitation. Cohabitation before marriage appears to be one of the factors that increases the odds of a marriage ending in divorce

Question 16

What is culture?

Answer 16

A representation in a group based on a certain set of values, beliefs or normative rituals and can be based on national, regional, religions, political and popular commonly held ideals

Question 17

Can a person be one of more than one culture?

Answer 17

A person can be a member of many cultural groups, shifting from one group to another over time.

Question 18

What is the correlation with culture and globalization?

Answer 18

Globalization causes increased interaction among cultural groups creating sites of contention between opposing ideological beliefs.

Question 19

What is ethnocentrism

Answer 19

Thinking as your culture as being the “normal one” - we can use our culture as a measuring stick with which to judge other individuals or societies and anyone outside our group seems “off center” or abnormal

Question 20

What is cultural relativism

Answer 20

Principle of understanding other cultures on their own terms, rather than our own terms, rather than judging or evaluating according to ones own culture - practicing this we begin to see others more clearly and without judgement

Question 21

What is material culture

Answer 21

The objects associated with a cultural group such as looks, machines, utensils, buildings, artwork, any physical objects, and material culture can tell us a lot about a certain group or society

Question 22

What is symbolic culture

Answer 22

The ideas associate with a cultural group including ways of thinking, believes, values, and assumptions. The Norms. This reflects the ideas and beliefs of a group ex: the signs and gestures we have or that we driving on the right side of the street ex: American flag and Jordan’s

Question 23

Dominant culture

Answer 23

Values, norms, and practices of the group within society that is most powerful in terms of wealth, status, and influence

Question 24

Subculture

Answer 24

A culture within a culture and has a distinctive way of life including its own set of values, and Norms, practices,

Question 25

Counter culture

Answer 25

A group within society that openly rejects and or actively opposed society’s values and norms

Question 26

Technological determinism

Answer 26

The notion that developments in technology provide the primary driving force behind social change like computers and cell phones are defining who we become -how we think, feel and act

Question 27

Multiculturalism

Answer 27

General descries a policy that involves hearing the diverse racially ethnic, national, lingusitc backgrounds of various individuals and groups

Question 28

What are the five landscapes of cultural flows

Answer 28

Ethnicity, technology, ideology, finance, media also religion and leisure

Question 29

What does music do

Answer 29

It is a powerful cultural tool and has the capacity to influence social and political processes, it enables to tell stories, exchange information and let truths be known (cultures flows through these things)

Question 30

What is hip hop

Answer 30

A musical genre that is a powerful instrument for oppressed cultural groups to express themselves - it is needed more than ever and is emerging in Iraq and Somalia and also flexible and can be adopted by different cultures

Question 31

Pessimistic hyperglobalizers

Answer 31

Believe that western popular media and global flow of good homogenizes culture

Question 32

Mcdonandlization

Answer 32

Principles of fast food restaurants are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world ex: they are not unique anymore like Taco Bell and China buffet

Question 33

What are the four methods of mcdonaldizstion

Answer 33

Efficiency, predictability, calculability, technological surge

Question 34

Optimistic globalizers

Answer 34

Promoted tourism to expansion from the United States and that we are the ones leading in what the cultural rules are

Question 35

Mcworld

Answer 35

He says who cares where it comes from

Question 36

Jihad

Answer 36

Draws a line with religion

Question 37

Does globalization make people around the world more alike of different ?

Answer 37

We want to be unique so we can stand out and this is how we identify ourselves is through culture, power and authority

Question 38

Feminization of migration

Answer 38

This is where more women than men represent migrant populations in a given country

Question 39

What are the women doing in those countries?

Answer 39

Migration of poor women to rich countries to serve as nannies, maids, and sometimes sex workers and they do the women’s work that affluent women no longer does anymore

Question 40

Worldwide gender revolution

Answer 40

This is the pattern of life where across the globe, fewer families can rely on a sole provider, typically a male and so women must find work as well

Question 41

What is different from third world women

Answer 41

They do jobs that middle and high income women in the first world are not doing

Question 42

Care deficit

Answer 42

When woman enter into the workforce there is a decrease in care giving time that required immigrant care givers to fill this gap because men won’t do it

Question 43

Do we work longer hours?

Answer 43

Americans work on average 122 hours more than Brits and 378 more hours than German Per year and we are one of the countries without paid maternity leave

Question 44

Offloading

Answer 44

We’re cutting jobs and dumping the work in the remaining staff that makes them do more than ones jobs worth of work

Question 45

Multitasking

Answer 45

Studies have proven how bad this is and that it really doesn’t work and how when we are focused on work wee are not able to fully focus on other things

Question 46

What are life chances

Answer 46

Changes in demographic characteristics that will influence how your life will turn out