The United States population pyramid qualifies as because, except for the oldest categories, each cohort is roughly the same size
a. expansive
b. constrictive
c. stationary
d. triangular
c
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Valerie is a 30-year-old single woman with no children. Last year she finished a graduate degree and moved out of her parents’ basement into an apartment of her own. She is searching for the right partner to be in a committed relationship with, but has not found that person yet. At Thanksgiving, Valerie’s grandmother asked her when she might be getting married and having children and said,
“By the time I was your age I was married and had all three of my children.” Sociologists would most likely point to changes in _________ in order to explain Valerie and her grandmother’s different experiences at this stage of life. A) serial gender norms B) the transition to adulthood C) no-fault divorce D) the dual-earner family model
A job applicant learns that the job for which she is applying requires a college degree. In this instance the cultural capital needed is
a. objectified. b. embodied. c. institutionalized. d. diffused.
Technology-based interventions using “rich multimedia” can be a cost-effective way to
a. discourage elders from dwelling on the past. b. promote reminiscence and conversation. c. reduce staff-resident interaction. d. avoid icons that evoke memories and conversation.
______ breaks the habitual reading and recalling of the complaint-saturated story as residing in the person, making the problem an external entity.
A. Problem-saturating
B. Externalization
C. Exceptionalizing
D. Paradoxing