Chapter 2’s extended example of doing social research seeks to explain:
a. marriage and divorce
b. bicycle riding
c. gambling
d. juvenile delinquency
b. bicycle riding
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Regarding child care in married couples,
A) In most couples, the husband and wife share child care fairly equally. B) Younger fathers do far more child care than their own fathers did. C) In most couples, the husband does more child care than the wife. D) Younger fathers do far less child care than their own fathers did.
Human beings have a self—that is, they are able to look back on themselves as both subjects and objects in the universe. The author suggests that this fact leads people to
a. periodically become confused as to who they really are. b. use religion to answer questions such as who we are and the nature of our importance. c. build a "sacred cosmos" for people to understand and believe in. d. seek individual freedom.
When ethnographers get too close to their subjects so that they no longer can critically evaluate other people's perspectives, it is called
a. "going native.". b. "going under the knife.". c. "knowing the subject.". d. "undisturbed data.".
Chances of divorce have been ________ for college graduates and ________ for people who did not graduate from high school.
A. declining; declining B. increasing; increasing C. increasing; declining D. declining; increasing