Corporate enterprises with holdings and subsidiaries in several different countries.
What is a transnational corporation
100
Give one reason why a homosexual person would hide his/her sexual orientation on the job
What is can be fired for it, face discrimination, etc
100
The practice of targeting citizens for police encounters on the basis of race.
What is racial profiling
100
The tension and arms race between the United States and Soviet Union from World War II until 1990 was known as
What is the Cold War
100
In recent decades, union membership size has
What is declined significantly
200
The major reason for world hunger is
What is uneven distribution
200
The ________ is an arbitrary line computed by multiplying the cost of a basic nutritionally adequate diet by 3.
What is the official poverty line.
200
Crimes that may offend the majority but do not harm other people are called ________ crimes.
What are victimless crimes
200
Politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets with the intention of intimidating and/or calling attention to a cause is known as
What is terrorism
200
According to the text, sociologists are ________ by those in power.
What is ignored
300
When gases accumulate in the atmosphere and act like a glass roof of a greenhouse allowing sunlight in but trapping the heat that is generated
What is the greenhouse effect
300
An invisible barrier that limits women's upward occupational mobility
What is the glass ceiling
300
Opiates were declared illegal in a limited context in the nineteenth century due to
What is anti-Chinese sentiment
300
The policy originally guiding U.S. military actions in the War on Terror and long-range plans for national security has come to be known as
What is the Bush Doctrine
300
When individuals act alone or together to shape, resist, challenge, and even change social organizations or institutions that affect them
What is human agency
400
The health insurance program that serves people over 65
What is Medicare
400
Though this is not a new phenomenon, the trend for contemporary women to be more economically vulnerable than men is known as
What is the feminization of poverty
400
The practice of assigning students to academic groups based on the school's assessment of the student's ability
What is tracking
400
Give two examples of weapons of mass destruction
What is arson, computer virus, mass transit disruption, nuclear weapon, etc
400
A government ruled by the wealthy class
What is a plutocracy
500
Name two research methods used to study social problems
What is survey, field research, secondary data analysis
500
Name two ways families teach children about gender
What is different expectations, different toys, dressing kids in gender-specific colors
500
Name two facts about the new U.S. health care system signed into law in 2010 (Obamacare)
What is allows individuals to keep insurance, requires everyone to have health insurance, enables young people to stay on their parent health plan until age 26
500
Which nation spends more than the United States on national security?
What is none of them
500
Name two things blocking progressive change.
What is power of money, reluctance to raise taxes, political gridlock