Exam 3: Socialization, the Life Course, and Aging

Alyssa likes to pretend that she is a doctor. She uses her mother's thermometer to take the temperature of her stuffed animals and then gives them "medicine" with a teaspoon. George Herbert Mead would say that she is:

What is the primary reason that the young-old are more likely to be better educated and have higher levels of wealth than the old-old and the oldest-old?

For hundreds of years, U.S. society has been stratified by social class, including through different access to wealth, values, and tastes. This process is known as:

Elder abuse is present when an elderly person experiences which of the following?

In second grade, Reina was earning A's on her math tests, which included multiplication and division. According to Jean Piaget, what stage of cognitive development is Reina in?

According to Piaget, the first three stages of cognitive development (sensorimotor, preoperational, and concrete operational) are universal, but some adults never reach the fourth stage (formal operational). According to the text, "The development of formal operational thoughts depends in part on one's education, which may foster abstract reasoning." In three to four sentences, hypothesize why you think that might be.

According to sociologists, which of the following best describes the relationship between identity and socialization?

According to activity theory, both the elderly and society can benefit:

Katya, a five-year-old girl, entered her classroom on the first day of school and began running around screaming. Her teacher told her to take a seat and sit quietly since class was starting. What process was occurring during this interaction?

Pointing to medieval paintings in which children were portrayed with mature faces and participating in the same work and play activities as adults, French historian Philippe Ariès made the argument that:

According to the textbook, peer groups can be defined as social groups in which members:

Critics of functionalist theories of aging argue that these theories:

Which of the following groups is most likely to live past age sixty-five in U.S. society?

One of the most distinctive features of human beings compared with other animals is:

In a 1972 study examining gender roles in children's books, Lenore Weitzman found that females were more likely to be indoors and engaged in passive activities. What is the sociological implication of this research?

Among the elderly, which group is most likely to be independent, healthy, and actively engaged?

Marika often likes to pretend that the household broom is a pony named Lucy. Piaget would argue that Marika is participating in which stage of cognitive development?

Emma was asked to volunteer at the senior center after school a few times a week. She was reluctant to do so, because even though she loves seeing her own grandparents, she views the elderly as old-fashioned, senile, and embittered. Emma's stereotypes of the elderly were most likely learned from:

Sociologists argue that social and geographic mobility have affected our self-identities in which way?

Functionalists argue that social roles: