Chat with AIExam 1: A Day in the Life of Your Jeans: Using Our Stuff to Discover Sociology
Define social location. What are the most important hierarchies influencing your social location?
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VerifiedSocial location is individual or group position in a variety of social relations/groups. It influences the degree of agency/ degree of autonomy available to an individual or group in the face of structural constraints.
It influences: one's identity (how one sees oneself), how others see one (this includes discrimination and marginalization), and choices and opportunities available to one.
Social location is formed in the intersections of various social hierarchies. Among the most important are economic, class, power, gender, age, race, ethnicity.
According to the textbook, which of the following is the most likely effect of living in a capitalist society?
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Describe the core themes of feminist perspectives in sociology, and how they shed light on the social world.
(34) VerifiedFeminist perspectives in sociology explain social locations of women. By doing so, they broaden sociological perspective to include gender hierarchy (one of the intersecting hierarchies of social inequality), perspectives of a marginalized group and advocate for the rights of women. This broadening of perspective improves sociologists' understanding of society. Some feminists were also interested in position and rights of other marginalized groups: workers and slaves.
Define the sociological imagination and explain in what way(s) it is important for all who study sociology.
(38) Compare the importance of structure and agency in the lives of a corporate CEO and a customer service representative (somebody who holds an entry-level position and deals with customers directly) in the same company.
(32) What is the focus of the microsociological approach? Illustrate with examples from your own life.
(41) Which of the following is an interest Marx, Durkheim, and Weber had in common?
(32) Maya believes that, although people's food preferences seem natural and innate, they are really formed by the cultural norms of their class and ethnic group. Which of the following sociological thinking frames is her belief most consistent with?
(40) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of sociological imagination?
(38) Sociology emerged in part as an effort to understand the following social phenomenon:
(38) A sociological study has found that, while Americans perceive a visit to a fast-food restaurant as a way to get a super-quick meal, Asians are more likely to perceive it as an opportunity to relax and enjoy a social outing. Which of the following sociological thinking frames was used in this study?
(30) Which of the following was instrumental in making jeans acceptable and popular for women to wear?
(39) The textbook stresses that microsociological and macrosociological approaches are:
(35) Berger wrote that sociologists should strive to "see the strange in the familiar." Explain this statement.
(40) Which of the following issues did Beecher Stowe, a famous critic of slavery, also write about?
(28) Which of the following concepts expresses the importance of people's individual choices and actions to pursue individual goals?
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