(Top QUALITY 2024/2025 EXAM REVIEW) WGU C273 Introduction to Sociology Unit 4 NEW VERSION, Questions and answers, VERIFIED.
WGU C273 Introduction to Sociology Unit 4 NEW VERSION, Questions and answers, VERIFIED. they are more likely to categorize themselves as Black, and they are more likely to be categorized by others as Black - -According to Saperstein's 2014 study, what is a strange social byproduct of an individual's time in prison? skin color - -Which characteristic would most likely be used to categorize a person according to the salience principle? Prejudice is an attitude; discrimination is a treatment. - -How does prejudice differ from discrimination? institutional racism - -Racism that is expressed via policies and laws is known as _____________. Women often feel pressured to choose between their careers and having a family. - -A study found that nearly half of highly successful women do not have children, whereas less than 20 percent of highly successful men do not have children. What is one explanation for this? glass escalator - -Both Dominic, a man, and Alice, a woman, were hired as receptionists in July by a large advertising agency. After eight months, Dominic was promoted to account coordinator. Alice was not promoted until 13 months after being hired. What phenomenon best describes this circumstance? feminist theory - -Protestors march outside of an organization that has acknowledged giving higher salaries to White males than those who work alongside them. Which of the following perspectives do these protestors most likely subscribe to? Stratification motivates people to work harder. - -How would a functionalist view stratification? categorization and ranking of groups of people to form a hierarchy - -Social stratification is the ______. agrarian system - -Which of the following is not a system of stratification? Europe, North America and rich Asian and Pacific countries - -About 90 percent of the world's wealth is contained in participation in STEM fields - -In which area is there a gender gap in which girls are disadvantaged? Race is a social category based on a person's physical traits; ethnicity comes from a shared sense of cultural, ancestral, and national identity. - -Which of the following best describes the distinction between race and ethnicity? Phenotype - -A person's physical features, or ________, are the physical expression of their biological genes. Jewish people - -Which of the following groups of people share their ethnicity by circumstance? Intellect - -Which of the following does NOT contribute to a person's ethnic identity? The salience principle - -A person who is not of African heritage nevertheless looks African-American. Sociologists predict that people will treat her as an African American because of what principle? Whites suffering from an economic downturn in a town where a factory has just closed identify recent immigrants from Somalia as a problem in their community. - -Which of the following is the best example of scapegoat theory? An implicit bias will never be against an in-group. - -Which of the following statements about implicit bias is NOT true
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