Standards of beauty are culturally variable. In the U.S.,:
a. White women are more concerned about weight than African American women
b. the Hispanics and Whites have the same standard for thinness in women
c. African Americans women are more self-critical of their bodies than are White women
d. Hispanic women are more interested in outward appearances of beauty than White women.
a
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The most important predictors of parent and child coresidence in the middle years are
A) home ownership and financial stability. B) parent characteristics such as health or employment status. C) the child's needs and situation. D) all of the above about equally.
Following the birth of their third child, Mary and John realized that Mary had to go back to work to help make ends meet financially. This meant, however, that they would spend less time together as a family. Sociologists would say that Mary going back to work was both
(a) disruptive and unproductive. (b) selfish and uncaring. (c) functional and dysfunctional. (d) productive and functional.
A team of psychologists interested in developing an inventory to measure work-related stress begins with a large number of potentially useful items. If they reduce the number of items by considering items that correlated with each other and not with
other items, they are using A) hierarchical linear modeling. B) factor analysis. C) path analysis. D) multilevel modeling.
Why is it advantageous to employers to have a large number of marginal people (uneducated and/or undocumented) in the work force?
A. because desperate people will work for very low wages, thus depressing wages for all workers B. to have someone to blame for industrial accidents C. to have someone to blame for unionization efforts, thus depressing interest in unions among more educated workers D. because employers want the opportunity to improve society by raising people out of poverty