Sociology Exam 3 1. Affirmative Action pos efforts to recruit minority grp mem/ women for jobs‚ promotions‚ edu opportunities; argued that discrimination will shift to Whites ex.: height/ residency requirements‚ testing differ w/ culture- sherpas: olf value independence‚ own homes/ good physical cond; fulani: old move to edge of homestead where ppl are buried‚ socially viewed as dead prejudice/ discrimination based on person’s age -endogamy: restrictions of mate selection to ppl in same
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What is Sociology‚ Anyway? Introductory Sociology January 20‚ 2015 Use right arrow on keyboard to advance slides People typically do not understand sociology very well. Just ask someone what sociology is and they typically don’t know. Even people that have taken Introductory Sociology still don’t know what it is. For example‚ while evacuated during Hurricane Rita I told someone that I taught sociology and this is what they said: “I studied sociology in college but really didn’t understand it
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mechanisms in place that are based on rewards and punishments. On a basic level rewards are praise‚ encouragement and acceptance while punishments are ridicule‚ rejection and gossip. On a slightly deeper level‚ for those who are religious‚ there is the promise of heaven as a reward and on the opposing side there are threats of punishment in the afterlife. However there has been a huge decline in the influence of religion in modern industrial societies since the end of the nineteenth century. Mass media
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helping his little brother to succeed. Despite Vincent’s dreams‚ he is a “godchild” and has no real future‚ until he meets a DNA broker who can‚ and does‚ change his life forever. In the movie “Gattaca” we see several terms and theories used in sociology that can be used to break down the movie into a sociological perspective of how life could be in the future. A persons’ values are their ideas of what is important and desirable in life. For Vincent‚ he wants to be an astronaut. This is impossible
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[pic] Introduction To Sociology Section 4 Research: Sexism To: Dr. Mohammed Marzoky By: Faris Al Sahhar ID: LAB260 8/05/2012 Sexism Sexism is also known as gender discrimination or sex discrimination‚ is defined as prejudice or discrimination based on sex; or behavior‚ conditions‚ or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex. Sexism is a form of discrimination or devaluation based on a person ’s sex‚ with such attitudes being based on beliefs
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PART I. 15 short-answer based questions ½ page. Define‚ get examples and write answer. If there are 2 sides to a question‚ mention them. 1. Define feminism and describe how this perspective is useful for sociologists. Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining‚ establishing‚ and defending equal political‚ economic‚ and social rights for women. In addition‚ feminism seeks to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. A feminist is "an
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Assignment # 1 Eveline keeps her mother’s promise Eveline was a motherless daughter who lived with her father. She had four siblings‚ one of her brother was dead‚ and the other was never around and was busy with work. And the rest two were young children who went to school. Eveline’s father was a violent and abusive man. She was not exactly living with him happily. There was no one to protect her from him. He would not give her money properly‚ and would be very violent towards her. She had
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Reading the book‚ “Promises I can keep” by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas was very touching because I am also a woman and I can understand parts of their few points. To me it is so weird to see that young women are having kids at a really young age and it usually the woman that are poor. “Half of the poor woman who give birth while unmarried have no high school diploma at the time‚ and nearly a third have not worked at all in the last year” (2). That is really sad to see that young woman start to
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Sociology Fieldtrip I really enjoyed the sociology fieldtrip; I thought it was really cool to be able to apply sociology to real life situations. We started off with going to the Milwaukee County Courthouse. There‚ we were able to talk to a judge and hear about his job as well as hear some cases. Then‚ we went to the Hope House‚ which personally‚ was my favorite part of the trip. Lastly‚ we went to Habitat for Humanity‚ which was also very interesting. Although I thought every part of the fieldtrip
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Campaign threats or implied promise of benefit? Campaign threats or implied promise of benefit? Did the employer statements constitute an unlawful threat or an unlawful promise in violation of Section 8(a)(1) of the LMRA? Why or why not? Yes‚ the employer statements were unlawful. The NLRA guaranteed workers the right to join unions without fear of management reprisal. It created the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to enforce this right and prohibited employers from committing unfair
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