In the late twentieth century, cultural changes in the meaning of and motivation for marriage evolved in what way?
A. economic pressure to stay married increased
B. endogamy was strengthened
C. emotional expectations became a fundamental weakness
D. choosing to remain single was increasingly discouraged
Answer: C. emotional expectations became a fundamental weakness
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a. only college students and college-educated people. b. only a few hundred people in 2 or 3 states. c. the occupation of a nuclear submarine base. d. considerable violence on the part of demonstrators.
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a) It ignores the biological causes of singleness. b) It means the same thing as "never-married." c) It includes cohabiting couples who don't see themselves as single. d) The Census Bureau no longer uses the term single. e) The Census Bureau only records the number of single women, but not single men.
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a. assimilation b. acculturalist c. cultural pluralism d. blending
Anthony Giddens further refined Durkheim’s conceptualization of mechanical and organic societies by noting how the ______ or the moral precepts of the collective conscious are reduced in societies with a division of labor.
a. volume b. intensity c. rigidity d. content