Groups characterized by intense emotional ties, intimacy, and identification with membership in the group are referred to as ______.

A. families
B. primary groups
C. principal groups
D. reference groups


Answer: B

Sociology

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a. good; worst tragedies b. new; old c. specific; general d. general; particular

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According to functionalists, ethnocentrism is functional because it ________

a. teaches various groups to live in harmony with each other b. produces loyalty, cohesiveness, and strong group ties c. supports and helps to establish pluralism d. helps to reduce intolerance toward other communities

Sociology

What is the key concept on which representative democracy is based?

a. property ownership b. citizenship c. gender d. race

Sociology

According to queer theorists, _____ creates a social system in which the only viable, intelligible, and respectable form of sexuality is heterosexuality.

a. the heterosexual matrix b. compulsory heterosexuality c. the epistemology of the closet d. homosexual panic e. homosexual melancholy

Sociology