SOC/203 SOC203 SOC 203 WEEK 1 QUIZ

SOC 203 WEEK 1 QUIZ

Week 1 - Quiz

Question 1

Which sociological perspective believes that poverty has its positive effects for the economy and class hierarchy?

  

Functionalist

 

  

Conflict

 

  

Race-centered

 

  

Feminist

 

Question 2

Which of the following types of income is NOT protected from the low taxation rate of the capital gains tax?

  

Real estate profits

 

  

Bonds

 

  

Salaries

 

  

Stock investments

 

 

 

Question 3

What kind of consciousness did Marx claim that workers were working under?

  

Class

 

  

False

 

  

Proletariat

 

  

Unionist

 

 

 

Question 4

The sociological lens allows a person to see human behavior __________________ that impact society.

  

patterns

 

  

problems

 

  

decisions

 

  

traits

 

 

 

Question 5

The functionalist perspective believes that the interdependent parts of society are not competing for domination.

  

True

 

  

False

 

 

 

Question 6

What type of consumption reflects economic inequality and contributes to social inequity?

  

cultural

 

  

materialist

 

  

governmental

 

  

conspicuous

 

 

Question 7

What allows us to distinguish a societal problem from an individual problem?

  

The sociological lens

 The sociological imagination

 

  

Public issues debates

 

  

Personal testimonies

 

 

 

Question 8

Which labor act prohibited unions from requiring dues from their members?

  

The Right-to-Work Act

 

  

The Wagner Act

 

  

The National Labor Relations Act

 

  

Citizens United

 

 

 

Question 9

Supply-side economics, also known as trickle-down economics, provides tax breaks to ____________________________.

  

students

 

  

unionized workers

 

  

shareholders

 

  

corporations

 

 

 

Question 10

Why are gender roles considered socially constructed, according to the text?

  

Biological gender assignment is fixed.

 

  

Gender-based values change over time.

 

  

Women’s rights transformed feminism.

 

  

Men and women can both contribute to the workforce.