All of the following are reasons that many cities are in fiscal crisis EXCEPT
a. Cities must raise most of their revenue locally
b. There is less high-value property to tax because business and industry have left the cities
c. Most of these cities have a majority of whites in their population
d. Cities have increasingly become the home of the poor
ANS: c
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Among women ages 40-44 who have already had children, fertility rates are
A) highest among low-income women and lowest among high-income women. B) lowest among low-income women and highest among high-income women. C) relatively constant among low- and high-income women. D) highest for low- and high-income women.
Which of the following is an example of a normative age-graded influence on development?
A. entering kindergarten B. living during the 9/11 attacks C. winning the lottery D. becoming addicted to methamphetamine
Parents who are likely to punish their children for exhibiting cross-gender behaviors are:
a. more likely to punish girls for behaving "like a boy.". b. more likely to punish boys for behaving "like a girl.". c. about equally as likely to punish both boys and girls for behaving like the other. d. usually embarrassed to admit that they punish their children for such behavior.
The term deinstitutionalization can be defined as ______.
a. a decline in the number of people participating in a social institution b. decreasing political or legal control of a social institution c. the weakening of the social norms that define people’s behavior in a social institution d. the replacement of one social institution with another