A society needs institutions in order to
a. allow it to adapt to its physical and social environments.
b. promote social integration.
c. enforce rules to ensure social control.
d. all of these
d
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One way homeless women combat boredom as discussed by the author involves:
a. stretching tasks out over several days. b. developing friendships with others in public parks. c. volunteering to help with shelter tasks. d. sleeping in the shelter all day.
Under couverture family law in the United States
a. married women owned only the property they brought into the marriage but did not accumulate rights to property the couple accumulated in the marriage. b. married couples held equal rights to all property each brought into the marriage or accumulated in the marriage. c. married women could not own property and their legal existence was suspended having been incorporated into that of their husbands. d. married couples each maintained separate ownership of the property they each respectively brought into the marriage and shared equally any property accumulated during the marriage.
According to sociologist Emile Durkheim,_____refers to those aspects of life that are extraordinary or supernatural—in other words, those things that are set apart as "holy."
a. profane b. sacred c. spiritual d. magical
In the late 1700s and 1800s,
a. the emphasis upon equality enhanced the status of the elderly. b. most of the negative terms for men, such as “old goat” and “geezer” came into general use. c. religious elders gained influence. d. All of these choices.