Test Bank for Sociology, Compass for a New World, 6th Canadian Edition, 6ce by Robert J. Brym, Lance W. Roberts, Lisa Strohschein, John Lie

Test Bank for Sociology, Compass for a New World, 6th Canadian Edition, 6ce by Robert J. Brym, Lance W. Roberts, Lisa Strohschein, John Lie

Test Bank for Sociology, Compass for a New World, 6th Canadian Edition, 6ce by Robert J. Brym, Lance W. Roberts, Lisa Strohschein, John Lie 

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ISBN-13: 9780176849696

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

PART 1 Foundations

CHAPTER 1 A Sociological Compass

Introduction

Why You Need a Compass for a New World

The Goals of This CHAPTER

The Sociological Perspective

The Sociological Explanation of Suicide

Suicide in Canada Today

From Personal Troubles to Social Structures

BOX 1.1 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: SUICIDE AND THE INNU OF LABRADOR

The Sociological Imagination

BOX 1.2 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: HIDDEN FIGURES

BOX 1.3 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: SHOCK TV GETS POLITICAL

Origins of the Sociological Imagination

Theories, Research, and Values

Theories

Research

Values

Sociological Theory and Theorists

Functionalism

Conflict Theory

Symbolic Interactionism

Feminist Theory

Fashion Cycles and the Four Theoretical Perspectives

Functionalism

Conflict Theory

Symbolic Interactionism

Feminism

A Sociological Compass

Equality vs. Inequality of Opportunity

Freedom vs. Constraint

Why Sociology?

Careers in Sociology

BOX 1.4 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: ARE CORPORATE SCANDALS A PROBLEM OF INDIVIDUAL ETHICS OR SOCIAL POLICY?

Summary

Note

CHAPTER 2 How Sociologists Do Research

Science and Experience

OTTFFSSENT

Levels of Experience

Scientific vs. Unscientific Thinking

Research Preliminaries

Research Approaches

The Research Act: Connecting Ideas to Evidence

Ethical Considerations

BOX 2.1 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: GOVERNMENT NUTRITIONAL EXPERIMENTS IN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS

BOX 2.2 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: ZERO DARK THIRTY

Quantitative Approaches

Measuring Variables

Experiments

Surveys

BOX 2.3 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: PRIVACY, POLITICS, AND THE CANADIAN CENSUS

Qualitative Approaches

Participant Observation

BOX 2.4 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: UNDERCOVER BOSS

Qualitative Interviewing

The Importance of Being Subjective

Summary

PART 2 Basic Social Processes

CHAPTER 3 Culture

Culture as Problem Solving

Culture as Meaning Generator

Culture Defined

The Origins of Culture

Four Types of Norms: Folkways, Mores, Taboos, and Laws

BOX 3.1 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: SPOTLIGHT

Culture and Biology

The Evolution of Human Behaviour

Language and the Sapir-Whorf Thesis

A Functionalist Analysis of Culture: Culture and Ethnocentrism

Culture as Freedom

Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Production

Cultural Diversity

Multiculturalism

BOX 3.2 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: SHOULD RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS BE BANNED IN PUBLIC SPACES?

A Conflict Analysis of Culture: The Rights Revolution

BOX 3.3 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: CULTURAL RELATIVISM OR ETHNOCENTRISM?

From Diversity to Globalization

Postmodernism

Canada: The First Postmodern Culture?

Culture as Constraint

BOX 3.4 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: THE CROWN

Rationalization and Time Use

Consumerism

From Counterculture to Subculture

Cultural Capital

Virtual Culture as Freedom and Constraint

Summary

CHAPTER 4 Socialization

The Consequences of Social Isolation in Childhood

BOX 4.1 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: THE SPACE BETWEEN US

Formation of the Self

Freud

Cooley’s Symbolic Interactionism

Mead

At the Intersection of Biography and History

A Sociology of the Life Course

Age Cohort

Generation

How Socialization Works

Theories and Agents of Socialization

Families

Schools: Functions and Conflicts

Symbolic Interactionism and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Peer Groups

The Mass Media

BOX 4.2 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: CYBER-BULLYING

The Mass Media and the Feminist Approach to Socialization

Resocialization and Total Institutions

Socialization and the Flexible Self

Self-Identity and the Internet

BOX 4.3 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: SELF-TRANSFORMATION: EXTREME MAKEOVER AND ITS SPINOFFS

Summary

CHAPTER 5 Social Interaction

The Building Blocks of Interaction

BOX 5.1 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: SUITS

BOX 5.2 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: WE LIVE IN PUBLIC

Feminist Theory and Emotions

Emotion Management

Emotion Labour

Emotions in Historical Perspective

Conflict Theories of Social Interaction

Competing for Attention

Power and Social Interaction

BOX 5.3 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA RUINED INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION?

Power and Position

Symbolic Interaction

Goffman’s Dramaturgical Analysis

Ethnomethodology

Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

From Small Processes to Big Structures

BOX 5.4 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: DOES NEGOTIATING SOCIAL ORDER TAKE TOO MUCH TIME AND ENERGY?

Summary

CHAPTER 6 Networks, Groups, Bureaucracies, and Societies

Beyond Individual Motives

The Holocaust

How Social Groups Shape Our Actions

BOX 6.1 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: GROUP LOYALTY OR BETRAYAL?

Social Networks

It’s a Small World

Finding a Job

Urban Networks

Online Networks

The Building Blocks of Social Networks

BOX 6.2 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: WESTWORLD

Is Group Loyalty Always Functional?

Love and Group Loyalty

Primary and Secondary Groups

Benefits of Group Conformity

Disadvantages of Group Conformity

Groupthink and Bystander Apathy

Group Conformity, Group Conflict, and Group Inequality

Groups and Social Imagination

Bureaucracies

Bureaucratic Inefficiency

Bureaucracy’s Informal Side

BOX 6.3 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE

Leadership

Overcoming Bureaucratic Inefficiency

Societies

Foraging Societies

Pastoral and Horticultural Societies

Agricultural Societies

Industrial Societies

Postindustrial Societies

Postnatural Societies

Freedom and Constraint in Social Life

Summary

PART 3 Inequality

CHAPTER 7 Deviance and Crime

The Social Definition of Deviance and Crime

The Difference between Deviance and Crime

Sanctions

BOX 7.1 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: VIOLENCE AND HOCKEY: DEVIANT, CRIMINAL, OR NORMATIVE?

Measuring Crime

BOX 7.2 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: SHOULD MARIJUANA BE LEGALIZED?

Criminal Profiles

Explaining Deviance and Crime

Symbolic Interactionist Approaches to Deviance and Crime

Functionalist Explanations

BOX 7.3 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: HELL OR HIGH WATER

BOX 7.4 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: BETTER CALL SAUL

Conflict Theories

Feminist Contributions

Social Control and Regulation

Internal and External Social Control

Trends in Social Control

The Medicalization of Deviance

The Prison

Moral Panic

Alternative Forms of Punishment

Summary

CHAPTER 8 Social Stratification

Patterns of Social Inequality

Shipwrecks and Inequality

Economic Inequality in Canada

Explanations of Income Inequality

Income vs. Wealth

BOX 8.1 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: SHOULD WEALTH TRUMP WORK?

Income and Poverty

Explaining Poverty

BOX 8.2 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDE A GUARANTEED INCOME?

Theories of Stratification

Conflict Perspectives

Power

BOX 8.3 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: THE HUNGER GAMES

BOX 8.4 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: TREME: HOW INEQUALITY SHAPES DISASTER

Social Mobility

Perceptions of Class Inequality

Summary

CHAPTER 9 Globalization, Inequality, and Development

The Creation of a Global Village

The Triumphs and Tragedies of Globalization

The Sources and Contours of Globalization

Globalization in Everyday Life

BOX 9.1 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: CAN WORK CONDITIONS BE IMPROVED IN CLOTHING FACTORIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES?

The Sources of Globalization

BOX 9.2 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: THE AMAZING RACE

A World Like the United States?

Globalization and Its Discontents: Anti-Globalization and Anti-Americanism

The History of Globalization

Development and Underdevelopment

Levels and Trends in Global Inequality

Modernization Theory: A Functionalist Approach

Dependency Theory: A Conflict Approach

Core, Periphery, and Semiperiphery

Neoliberal vs. Democratic Globalization

Globalization and Neoliberalism

Foreign Aid, Debt Cancellation, and Tariff Reduction

BOX 9.3 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

Democratic Globalization

Summary

Notes

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CHAPTER 10 Race and Ethnicity

Defining Race and Ethnicity

The Great Brain Robbery

Race, Biology, and Society

Ethnicity, Culture, and Social Structure

BOX 10.1 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: ZOOTOPIA

Ethnic and Racial Stratification in Canada

Canadian Multiculturalism

BOX 10.2 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: SHOULD WE RECRUIT FEWER IMMIGRANTS AND VISIBLE MINORITIES?

Race and Ethnic Relations: The Symbolic Interactionist Approach

Labels and Identity

Ethnic and Racial Labels: Imposition vs. Choice

BOX 10.3 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: MASTER OF NONE

Conflict Theories of Race and Ethnicity

Internal Colonialism

BOX 10.4 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: IS THE NATIONAL INQUIRY INTO MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND GIRLS NEEDED?

The Theory of the Split Labour Market and the Case of Asian Canadians

Some Advantages of Ethnicity

The Future of Race and Ethnicity in Canada

Summary

CHAPTER 11 Sexualities and Gender Stratification

Sex, Intersex, Gender, Transgender

Sex and Intersex

Theories of Gender

Essentialism: Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology

Functionalism and Essentialism

A Critique of Essentialism from the Conflict and Feminist Perspectives

Social Constructionism and Symbolic Interactionism

Gender Segregation and Interaction

The Mass Media and Body Image

BOX 11.1 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: TODDLERS & TIARAS

Male–Female Interaction

Sexuality

Sexuality and Resistance

Enforcing Heteronormativity

BOX 11.2 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: THE IMITATION GAME

Gender Inequality

The Origins of Gender Inequality

The Women’s Movement

Gender Inequality in the Labour Market

Eliminating the Gender Gap in Earnings

Male Aggression against Women

BOX 11.3 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: DOES A RAPE CULTURE EXIST ON UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE CAMPUSES?

Summary

CHAPTER 12 Sociology of the Body: Disability, Aging, and Death

Thinking about the Human Body Sociologically

BOX 12.1 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: ROBOCOP

Society and the Human Body

The Body and Social Status: A Feminist Interpretation

Disability

Disability in Canada

The Social Construction of Disability

Rehabilitation and Elimination

Ableism

Challenging Ableism: The Normality of Disability

BOX 12.2 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: FROM MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE TO SPEECHLESS

Aging

The Sociology of Aging

Population Aging in Canada and Around the World

Intergenerational Tensions: A Conflict Interpretation

Death and Dying

BOX 12.3 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: NEGOTIATING THE AMBIGUITY BETWEEN SOCIAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEATH

BOX 12.4 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH: NOT FOR THOSE WITH A MENTAL ILLNESS

Summary

PART 4 Institutions

CHAPTER 13 Work and the Economy

The Promise and History of Work

Salvation or Curse?

Economic Sectors and Revolutions

“Good” vs. “Bad” Jobs

The Deskilling Thesis

BOX 13.1 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: ARE YOU PREPARED FOR DIGITAL TAYLORISM?

A Critique of the Deskilling Thesis

The Social Relations of Work

Labour Market Segmentation

Worker Resistance and Management Response

BOX 13.2 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: SUPPORTING A REDUCED WORKWEEK

Unions and Professional Organizations

Barriers between the Primary and Secondary Labour Markets

The Time Crunch and Its Effects

The Problem of Markets

Capitalism, Communism, and Democratic Socialism

Capitalism

BOX 13.3 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: DRAGONS’ DEN

Communism

BOX 13.4 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: THE BIG SHORT

Democratic Socialism

The Corporation

Globalization

Globalization in the Less Developed Countries

The Future of Work and the Economy

Summary

CHAPTER 14 Politics

Introduction

Free Trade and Democracy

What Is Politics? Key Terms

BOX 14.1 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: GAME OF THRONES

Theories of Democracy

A Functionalist Account: Pluralist Theory

Conflict Approaches I: Elite Theory

BOX 14.2 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: INCREASING THE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN CANADIAN POLITICS

BOX 14.3 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: THE IDES OF MARCH

Conflict Approaches II: Marxist Rejoinders to Elite Theory

Conflict Approaches III: Power Resource Theory

Conflict Approaches IV: State-Centred Theory

The Future of Democracy

Two Cheers for Russian Democracy

The Three Waves of Democracy

The Social Preconditions of Democracy

Postmaterialism and the Dilemma of Canadian Politics

Politics by Other Means

War

Terrorism and Related Forms of Political Violence

Summary

Notes

CHAPTER 15 Families

Is “The Family” in Decline?

Functionalism and the Nuclear Ideal

Functional Theory

Foraging Societies

The Canadian Family in the 1950s

Conflict and Feminist Theories

The Gender Division of Labour

Mate Selection

Love and Mate Selection

BOX 15.1 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Marriage and Cohabitation

Living Apart Together

Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Unions

BOX 15.2 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: THE REAL O’NEALS

Divorce

Predictors of Divorce

Consequences of Divorce

Economic Hardship

Reproduction

Reproductive Choice

BOX 15.3 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: MEDICAL ABORTION: A NEW OPTION FOR CANADIAN WOMEN

Reproductive Technologies

Zero-Child Families

Lone-Parent Families

Step-Parent Families

Family Policy

Summary

CHAPTER 16 Religion

Religion and Society

Theoretical Approaches to the Sociology of Religion

Durkheim’s Functionalist Approach

BOX 16.1 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: FROM DUCK DYNASTY TO THE YOUNG POPE

Religion, Feminist Theory, and Conflict Theory

Weber and the Problem of Social Change: A Symbolic Interactionist Interpretation

The Rise, Decline, and Partial Revival of Religion

The Rise of Religion

The End of Religion?

BOX 16.2 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: PRAYER IN CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS

The Market Theory

The Future of Religion

Religion around the World

Religious Tolerance

Religious Affiliation in Canada

BOX 16.3 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: SILENCE

Religiosity

Summary

CHAPTER 17 Education

The Riot in St. Léonard

Mass Education: An Overview

Uniform Socialization

Rising Levels of Education

BOX 17.1 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: IS GRADE INFLATION HARMFUL?

Individual Advantages and Disadvantages

The Rise of Mass Schooling

Mass Schooling and National Wealth

BOX 17.2 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: IS VIRTUAL LEARNING A GOOD IDEA?

The Functions of Education

Latent Functions

Manifest Functions: The Logic of Industrialism

Cultural Homogeneity and Solidarity

Common School Standards

National Solidarity

Sorting into Classes and Hierarchies: A Conflict Perspective

BOX 17.3 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: MR. D

Economic Barriers to Higher Education

BOX 17.4 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: THE LOTTERY

Exclusion, Credentialism, and Professionalization

Cultural Capital and Control

Reproducing Inequality: The Contribution of Symbolic Interactionism

The Hidden Curriculum

Testing and Tracking

Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

BOX 17.5 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: IS SCHOOL ENOUGH?

Prospects and Challenges for Education in Canada

Gender Differences: A Feminist Perspective

Participation and Indigenous Background

International Competition

Summary

CHAPTER 18 Mass Media and Mass Communication

The Significance of the Mass Media

Illusion Becomes Reality

What Are the Mass Media?

BOX 18.1 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: YOU THE JURY

The Rise of the Mass Media

Causes of Media Growth

Theories of Media Effects

Functionalism

Conflict Theory

BOX 18.2 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: CANADIAN BROADCASTING AND GOVERNMENT REGULATION

Interpretive Approaches

BOX 18.3 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: SNOWDEN

Feminist Approaches

Centralized Control and Resistance on the Internet

Access

Content

Internet Advertising

Biased Algorithms

Online Piracy vs. Net Neutrality

Countertrends: The Rise of Social Media

Summary

CHAPTER 19 Health and Medicine

The Black Death

Health and Inequality

Defining and Measuring Health

The Social Causes of Illness and Death

BOX 19.1 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: INSIDE OUT

Health Care and Medicine

The Canadian Health-Care System: A Conflict Approach

BOX 19.2 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS ON CANADIAN CAMPUSES

The Power of Medicine

The Social Limits of Modern Medicine

BOX 19.3 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: THE BIG BANG THEORY

Challenges to Traditional Medical Science

BOX 19.4 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: DO PARENTS HAVE A DUTY TO VACCINATE THEIR CHILDREN?

Summary

PART 5 Social Change

CHAPTER 20 Population and Urbanization

Population

The City of God

The Population “Explosion”

BOX 20.1 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: INFERNO

The Malthusian Trap

A Critique of Malthus

Demographic Transition Theory

Population and Social Inequality

BOX 20.2 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK: HOW CAN WE FIND 120 MILLION MISSING WOMEN?

Urbanization

From the Preindustrial to the Industrial City

The Chicago School and the Industrial City

After Chicago: A Critique

The Corporate City

Rural Communities

The Postmodern City

BOX 20.3 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: GIRLS

Summary

CHAPTER 21 Collective Action and Social Movements

How to Spark a Riot

The Study of Collective Action and Social Movements

Non-Routine Collective Action

The Vancouver Riot of 1907

Breakdown Theory: A Functionalist Approach to Collective Action

Assessing Breakdown Theory

Social Movements

Solidarity Theory: A Conflict Approach

BOX 21.1 SOCIAL POLICY: WHAT DO YOU THINK?: STATE SURVEILLANCE OF DEMONSTRATIONS

Strikes and the Union Movement in Canada

Resource Mobilization

Political Opportunities

Social Control

Framing Discontent: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach

Examples of Frame Alignment

An Application of Frame Alignment Theory: Back to 1968

The History and Future of Social Movements

The Past 300 Years

New Social Movements

BOX 21.2 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: V FOR VENDETTA

BOX 21.3 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: MR. ROBOT

Summary

Note

ONLINE CHAPTER 22 Technology and the Global Environment

Technology: Saviour or Frankenstein?

BOX 22.1 SOCIOLOGY ON TV: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

Technology and People Make History

How High Tech Became Big Tech

Environmental Degradation

BOX 22.2 SOCIOLOGY AT THE MOVIES: WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

The Social Construction of Environmental Problems: A Symbolic Interactionist View

The Social Distribution of Environmental Risk

BOX 22.3 IT’S YOUR CHOICE: THE CANADIAN OIL PIPELINE DEBATE

What Is to Be Done? Functionalist vs. Conflict Solutions

The Market and High Technology

A Workable Strategy?

Evolution and Sociology


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