Final, Part 2 study guide

Final, Part 2

SOC 201A

Study guide

Chapter 13: Politics and Economic Life

civil rights

social rights

political rights

explain the quick spread of democracy around the world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries

characteristics of multiparty political systems

U.S. political system

C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite

Dwight David Eisenhower, “military-industrial complex”

dissatisfaction with the U.S. political system

who is likely to vote

shift in political values in democratic nations from scarcity values to postmaterialist values

informal economy

division of labor

economic interdependence

The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

Henry Ford

theory of alienation

explain the difficulties faced by labor unions since 1980

Why did labor unions develop?

Capitalism began to spread with the growth of the Industrial Revolution, when?

characteristics of capitalistic societies

Adolf Berle and Gardiner Means, The Modern Corporation and Private Property

family capitalism

managerial capitalism

institutional capitalism

welfare capitalism

transnational corporations

Robert Blauner

Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum, “race to the bottom”

reasons for the transformation of the occupational structure

temporary workers

John Maynard Keynes

Why did most countries largely abandon Keynesian policies in the 1970s and 1980s?

Why did levels of unemployment increase in Western societies in the 1970s and the 1980s?

Why do some people find it more difficult to find employment than others?

future of work

Chapter 14: The Sociology of the Body: Health, Illness, and Sexuality

relationship between poor neighborhood and childhood obesity

anorexia nervosa

socialization of nature

obesity

Talcott Parsons’s notion of the sick role

Why have some sociologists criticized Talcott Parsons’s notion of the sick role?

symbolic interactionism

Corbin and Strauss

stigma

developments in medicine in Western society over the past three centuries

alternative medicine

biomedical model of health

complementary medicine

trend toward individuals becoming health consumers and adopting an active stance toward their own health and well-being

health trends in industrialized societies in the twentieth century

level of education and health

occupational status, inequalities in health and illness

programs of health education and disease prevention

Hispanics and health

explain the health and mortality disadvantage for blacks

Why are some men less likely to seek annual checkups?

Why did diseases such as smallpox and measles produce epidemics that ravaged or completely wiped out native populations in the Americas after contact with Europeans in the late 15th century?

Why are large areas of east Africa devoid of cattle today?

human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)

major barriers to the treatment of the HIV and AIDS epidemic worldwide

Sigmund Freud

Clellan Ford and Frank Beach

Western attitudes toward sexual behavior

When did much more permissive attitudes toward sex develop widely and become openly public?

Alfred Kinsey

teens and sexual activity

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, homosexuality

According to the textbook, why do investigators devote such considerable time to research focused on homosexuality?

Peter Bearman

sexual orientation, biological and social influences

coming out

democracy (lecture)

According to Immanuel Wallerstein, what is the cause of the expansion of democracy?

According to Immanuel Wallerstein, do we live in true democracy?

sociology of the body (lecture)

In 2014, hate crimes related to sexual orientation impacted 1,248 victims, accounting for about 18.6 percent of total hate crimes committed that year.

2011–2013 National Survey of Family Growth (in lecture)

Which gender is more likely to claim a homosexual identity (gay or lesbian)?

Which gender is more likely to feel attraction only to the opposite sex?

Which gender is more likely to have same-sex contact?