How does the time and place we are born into influence us and our behavior? Give an example
What will be an ideal response?
Beyond specific organizations and institutions lie the social, economic, and historical contexts of our lives. The state of the world we are born into shapes the opportunities available to us, either limiting or enabling us to pursue different goals and aspirations. An African American male born in the South in 1910 faced a very different environment than the same man would today. A child growing up in a working-class family in Detroit in the 1940s would experience a different set of economic opportunities than the same child growing up in contemporary Detroit (once the center of the automobile industry and home to a large number of high-paying working-class jobs, today the Detroit area has been hard hit by the devastating decline in the U.S. manufacturing sector). Women entering adulthood in the 1950s faced a different set of choices and cultural expectations than women currently entering adulthood.
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Blake and Downey illustrate that increased family size effects each child negatively. Their explanation for this is called a
A) fertility failure hypothesis. B) resource dilution hypothesis. C) financial diminuation hypothesis. D) demographic transition hypothesis.
Jerry is a member of the rotary club. The club was discussing ideas for getting new members more involved in volunteering time and working on the weekly jobs necessary to sustain the club. The membership quickly decided on what they thought was the perfect solution. Jerry offered some different possible solutions. By suggesting an alternative solution, Jerry was viewed as being disloyal to the group. When members of the group began to narrow their thoughts and feel that there was only one correct answer to the situation, this is an example of what sociologists term:
A. democratic leadership B. laissez-faire leadership C. an out-group D. group think E. authoritarian leadership
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Caste theories emphasize the economic interests of elites in maintaining a poor and permanently subordinate ethnic labor pool. 2. Internal colonialism theories stress the desire of one population for inexpensive labor and control of land. 3. Split-labor market theories fail to emphasize the importance of power in labor markets. 4. Split-class theories emphasize the differences between and within social classes. 5. Split-class theories emphasize that within every class there are dominant and subordinate segments, and that often the subordinate segment is an ethnic minority.
The mechanization of agriculture in the mid-19th century resulted in
a. More countries becoming food independent b. Better techniques for healthier food and soil c. Countries becoming dependent on food import and export d. More people becoming sustenance farmers