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
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
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.