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?