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SOC101 Introduction to Sociology

Chapter 7 Exam

Question 1Eloise is a network executive at XYZ News Media. She has been instructed to prevent XYZ journalists from covering a breaking scandal involving XYZ’s chief financial officer. She has the staff prepare filler stories instead. XYZ, with Eloise’s complicity, is engaging in __________.

Question 2When your boss comes into the office, you try to look as busy as possible. Which dimensional view of power is operating in this scenario?

Question 3Which of these statements represents the powerlessness of B in relation to A, according to the two-dimensional view of power?

Question 4David Jones is a Green Party candidate for city council, which elects one candidate from each of five city districts. He garnered 25 percent of the vote in his district, but took no seat on the city’s governing council. Why, do you theorize, this is so?

Question 5Emily’s List is an organization that works to __________.

Question 6Presidents engage in __________ by focusing on topics, such as health care, that they believe are most important while avoiding topics marginal groups find important.

Question 7Which of the following statements exemplifies the “conservative egalitarian” label, which sociologists apply to American voters who do not consistently connect their beliefs about equality to support for government programs that might make our society more egalitarian?

Question 8Since the end of World War II, the trend in the corporate tax rate has been __________ relative to shifts in the entire economy.

Question 9How do sociologists view the use of force in sustaining power?

Question 10Which of the following statements explains why it is better to be a rich person in the United States than in any other part of the world?

Question 11A political action committee, or PAC, is a term used in U.S. politics to describe an organization set up to __________.

Question 12_________ is the system of elections in which seats in a legislature are divided up based on the percentage of the vote received.

Question 13__________ provide(s) an obvious and plausible explanation as to why income and wealth in the United States have become so concentrated at the top.

Question 14Which of the following statements best explains why it is difficult to bring about change in U.S. national politics?

Question 15How does agenda setting meet the needs of the powerful?