Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. PACs overall donated more to national campaign contributions in 2011–2012 than did individuals.
2. Overall, according to Page et al., the general public supports increased spending on health care, food stamps, and social security while the wealthy do not.
3. Labor contributions to national campaigns far exceed business contributions.
4. The threat of the loss of business confidence is an indirect veto over government policy.
1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
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According to Kingsley Davis, a manifest function of prostitution is that it:
a. provides a sexual outlet for men who cannot compete in the marriage market. b. protects the bargaining position of married women. c. increases sexual crimes of violence. d. keeps many women off the streets.
If most companies would like to become monopolies, why do they not do so?
a. They are unable to acquire the economic power to drive out their competitors. b. The public is hostile to monopolies. c. Their competitors will reduce access to credit. d. Governments seek to prevent monopolies. e. Bureaucracies are not sufficiently efficient to function as monopolies.
Which sociological perspective(s) would most likely focus attention on the personal relationships between stepparents and their stepchildren and the family dynamics involved in such relationships?
A. global perspective B. conflict and feminist perspectives C. interactionist perspective D. functionalist perspective
As adult children leave home, marry, and are employed:
A. older parents and their adult children remain emotionally linked. B. adult children often have stronger feelings of attachment to their parents than their parents have to them. C. they tend to see their parents more frequently when they have children, consistent with the life-span perspective. D. crisis theory is a particularly useful tool for thinking about the exchanges made between adult children and their aging parents.