According to socioemotional selectivity theory, which of the following happens as older adults reach their eighties?

What will be an ideal response?


Contacts with family and friends diminish gradually in favor of a few very close relationships.

Sociology

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Durkheim observes that in areas where divorce is essentially not allowed, the rate of suicide is very high—as people can become overly frustrated when not allowed to leave bad marriages

a. true b. false

Sociology

________ promotes a medical rather than criminal approach to drug use by encouraging users to seek treatment and adopting preventive practices

a. Deregulation b. Decriminalization c. Legalization d. Harm reduction

Sociology

Parents are more likely to tell boys to be:

a. thoughtful. b. clean. c. assertive. d. kind.

Sociology

Friedrich Engels, a colleague of Karl Marx, noted that

A. the family is the ultimate source of social inequality. B. there are six paramount functions of the family. C. 80 percent of the 565 societies he studied had some type of polygamy. D. there are six stations of divorce, but the most important is the economic station.

Sociology