Sociology Questions

The division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative power, property, and prestige is referred to as ________.

All of the following acts qualify as a white collar crime EXCEPT for which one?

The Most Industrialized Nations are almost equally distributed between the Northern and Southern hemispheres of the world.

Mahatma is a member of India's Brahman caste. What is Mahatma's most likely occupation?

In a caste system, social stratification is based on ascribed status.

Racism has traditionally been the cause of slavery.

Which concept explains the rise of global stratification as including core nations, semiperiphery nations, periphery nations, and external areas?

A group's usual and customary social arrangements, on which its members depend and on which they base their lives, is called ________.

In which of the following societies might slavery MOST likely exist?

The spread of an economic system based on investing to make profits, which is becoming the world's dominant economic system, is referred to as ________.

Sociologically, an act cannot be classified as deviance if it does not cause physical or emotional harm to another individual.

Human sexuality illustrates how a group's definitions of an act, and not the act itself, determines whether or not it is considered deviant.

Phil, a janitor for an expensive apartment-house complex in Chicago, is a union janitor who makes quite a bit more money than many of the tenants in the building he maintains. Lenski would note that Phil's high income but low occupational prestige demonstrates a condition of ________.

Which of the following statements is most accurate with respect to determining social prestige in modern society?

Crime "in the suites" (white collar crime) actually costs the American taxpayer more in terms of dollars lost than "crime in the streets."

Defining social class in America is an objective science because there are clear-cut, agreed-upon definitions of each class.

According to strain theory, the underlying cause of deviance is that people experience a sense of normlessness. This sense of normlessness is referred to as ________.

The relativity of deviance is most aligned with which sociological perspective?

In every society, from the hunting and gathering society to the postindustrial society, the most common basis for social stratification has been ________.

Conflict theorists classify the few who own the means of production as ________ and those who sell their labor to these owners as ________.