HARPER SOC101 Chapter 7 Exam Latest 2019 MAY Question # 00601339 Subject: Education Due on: 05/14/2019 Posted On: 05/14/2019 04:56 AM Tutorials: 0 Rating: 4.9/5

SOC101 Introduction to Sociology

Chapter 7 Exam

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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 __________.

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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?

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

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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?

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

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

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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?

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

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

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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?

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

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

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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.

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

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