FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY EXAM 3

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY EXAM #3

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Question 1: climate change

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refer to long-term shifts in temperatures due to human activity and, in particular, the release of greenhouse gases into the environment.

Question 2: sustainable development

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to achieve development that occurs without depleting or damaging the natural environment

Question 3: Latent Secondary functions

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which are the hidden and unintended functions.

Question 4: tracking

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formalized sorting system that places students on "tracks" (advanced versus low achievers) that perpetuate inequalities.

Question 5: No Child Left Behind Act

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requires states to test students in designated grades. The results of those tests determine eligibility to receive federal funding.

Question 6: Which of the following is true of intimate partner violence (IPV)?

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Nearly half of instances of IPV involve drugs or alcohol.

Question 7: refugee

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defined as an individual who has been forced to leave his or her country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster

Question 8: atheists

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who do not believe in a divine being or entity, and agnostics, who hold that ultimate reality (such as God) is unknowable.

Question 9: Unilateral descent

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the tracing of kinship through one parent only

Question 10: cohabitation

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when a couple shares a residence but not a marriage

Question 11: How does gentrification affect cities?

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Less affluent residents are pushed into less desirable areas.

Question 12: family

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as a socially recognized group (usually joined by blood, marriage, cohabitation, or adoption) that forms an emotional connection and serves as an economic unit of society.

Question 13: environmental sociology studies

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the way humans interact with their environments.

Question 14: Education

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is a social institution through which a society's children are taught basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms.

Question 15: Taoism

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the purpose of life is inner peace and harmony. Tao is usually translated as "way" or "path." The ying-yang symbol and the concept of polar forces are central Taoist ideas

Question 16: kinship

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one's traceable ancestry, can be based on blood or marriage or adoption.

Question 17: population composition

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a snapshot of the demographic profile of a population.Question 18: How are the suburbs of Paris different from those of most U.S. cities?

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They are synonymous with housing projects and urban poor.

Question 19: polytheistic

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is a religion based on belief in multiple deities,

Question 20: global commodity chains

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where internationally integrated economic links connect workers and corporations for the purpose of manufacture and marketing

Question 21: The median age of first marriage has _____ in the last fifty years.

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increased for both men and women

Question 22: patrilineal

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which follows the father's line only

Question 23: In general, children in ______ households benefit from divorce.

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high-conflict

Question 24: shaken-baby syndrome

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describes a group of medical symptoms such as brain swelling and retinal hemorrhage resulting from forcefully shaking or causing impact to an infant's head Question 25: Which of the following do the functionalist and conflict perspectives share?

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Position that religion relates to social control, enforcing social norms

Question 26: grade inflation

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a term used to describe the observation that the correspondence between letter grades and the achievements they reflect has been changing (in a downward direction) over time.

Question 27: Cultural transmission

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to the way people come to learn the values, beliefs, and social norms of their culture.

Question 28: global assembly lines

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where products are assembled over the course of several international transactions