Apply Robert Merton’s five responses to social strain...

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1) Apply Robert Merton’s five responses to social strain (Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism and Rebellion) to students pursuing a college education.

2) Outline four steps for reducing the use of vapor e-cigarettes among teenagers. Suggest one policy for each of these four steps: prevention, intervention, punishment and rehabilitation.

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1) Outline the differences between a closed system of stratification and an open system of stratification? Give one example of each.

2) Poverty often results from a combination of individual and societal causes. Give an example of an individual cause and a societal cause.

3) Explain the difference between intergenerational and intra-generational social mobility.

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1) The Davis Moore hypothesis suggests that people who do more important work are paid more. What arguments have been made against this hypothesis?

2) In basic terms, what did Karl Marx say about the relationship the rich and the working class in society?

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1) What is the difference between the terms “sex” and “gender”? 2) A. Apply the concepts of nature and nurture to cases where people do not

identify with their own biological sex. B. Would the nature group or the nurture group be more concerned about the

influence of peers?

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1) What is meant by the term “partriarchal” society?2) Give two examples of ways that parents socialize children into a gender role.

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1) a. What is the relationship between prejudice and discrimination? b. How do these two terms differ?

2) What is meant by “minority group” in terms of population and political power?

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1) Describe the Contact Hypothesis and how it may apply to whites living in Hancock County Maine.

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1) Define health.2) Measles recently re-emerged in Disneyworld in California and this week in

Virginia. Suggest the potential effects of 1) environment, 2) demography, 3) behavior and 4) health care / medicine

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1) What is meant by the sick role?2) What is meant by stigma with respect to disease? Describe the effect then give an

example.

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1) Give one example each of marriage endogamy and marriage exogamy.2) Identify three roles of families according to functionalists?

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1) Identify some of the challenges of having an aging population in Hancock County 2) What do we mean by “life expectancy”? 3) What factors account for concerns that life expectancy in America may decline in

the near future?

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1) Draw and label a graph showing the life-cycle of a social movement. 2) What is meant by the term “relative deprivation”?

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1) Are the recent riots in Baltimore an example of collective behavior? 2) Why?

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