Amount of time between the average lifespan of men and women.
What is 5 years?
100
This family structure consists simply of a working husband, a homemaker wife, and children.
What is the nuclear family?
100
This, if proven through research, would mean that one independent variable explicitly causes another. (i.e. pricking your finger would cause pain)
What is causality?
100
This is used to determine whether or not a study measured what it intended to measure.
What is validity?
100
These are non-medical birth assistants.
Who are doulas?
200
Worldwide, this nation boasts the longest lifespan.
What is Japan?
200
The nuclear family ideal was brought upon particular economic and social conditions brought about during this era.
What is the Post-WWII era?
200
This distinction of research variables deals in CATEGORIES of people and identity, such as race, marital status, gender, etc.
What are nominal variables?
200
This distinction of research variables involves a RANGE or NUMERICAL classification, such as age or income. The Likert Scale exemplifies this.
What are ordinal variables?
200
This is a proposed relationship between two variables.
What is a hypothesis?
300
Risk-taking, violence, stress/stress management, health and diet habits.
What are behavioral differences between men and women?
300
This was very high during the Post-WWII era.
What is teen pregnancy?
300
The study Devah Pager conducted is unusual for sociology because it is an example of this.
What is an experiment?
300
In doing research, this is least affected by a small sample size.
What is validity?
300
Surprisingly, this field of science does little to help us understand health inequalities between different ethnic and racial groups in the U.S.
What is biology?
400
Doctors, media, and policy reinforce this idea by presenting childbirth as a chaotic, unexpected event.
What is medicalization of childbirth?
400
The Ford Motor Co., in reinforcing ideals of patriarchy, pioneered this for men to support their families, and women to stay at home for their husbands
What is the $5 day?
400
As suggested by the article on Native American youth, this is affected when the sample size is smaller.
What is generalizability?
400
This is a simultaneous variation in two variables.
What is correlation?
400
This was the type of processing plant studied in the Massey reading "Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line".
What is beef?
500
Though this is great to have access to, a lack of it only leads to about 10% of premature death in the U.S.
What is health care?
500
These people are an example of the cultural variation of the nuclear family model; they live in South Africa and men and women must live separately, even if they have children.
What is the Manduru Cu tribe?
500
In her studies on the effects of criminal record and race in employment, Devah Pager replicated her study in different cities, in order to support this.
What is reliability?
500
This was a criticism of the Native American study because of the variation between different tribes, different locations and different age groups.
What is generalizability?
500
This organization is trying to help those in need by offering prescriptions for food and housing.