Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Age is an achieved status.
2. Gender is an ascribed status.
3. The mass media are an example of a social institution
4. Émile Durkheim argued that mechanical solidarity is characteristic of the interdependence of people in a complex society.
5. The sociocultural evolutionary approach emphasizes a developmental perspective and pictures different types of social structures coexisting within the same society.
1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. FALSE
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a. half as much as b. one and a half times c. twenty times d. equal to
Multiculturalists claim that, over the course of U.S. history, most non-English immigrants were advised to adopt the cultural patterns of the English—their "betters"—rather than "melt in."
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following is an accurate portrayal of the black middle class people Lacy studied (in terms of their children's education and marital possibilities)?
a. they were open to their children attending white colleges, but feared interracial marriages. b. they advocated their children attending primarily black colleges so that they would more likely marry someone of their race. c. they had strong hopes that their children could attend predominantly white colleges so that they could marry a white person. d. they had no opinion about what kind of college or who their children married, as long as they were happy.
What are binuclear families?
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word.