______ refers to the tendency for women to marry men who are slightly older.
A. Pool of eligibles
B. Marriage dearth
C. Marriage squeeze
D. Marriage gradient
Answer: D
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In his cultural-situational approach to explaining persistent poverty, Herbert Gans argues
that the solution to poverty lies in __________. a. programs that help the poor to overcome the debilitating influences of their culture of poverty b. adjustments in the economic system so that the introduction of technology doesn't displace workers c. altering the situational factors that cause poverty d. discovering the factors that constrain poor people from taking new opportunities that conflict with their present cultural values e. working with the agents of socialization so that only one dominant set of values is internalized by all groups and classes in the population
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a. making the correlation spurious. b. making the correlation reliable. c. control. d. causing the correlation.
Family income in the US between 1976 and 2006, even those where both wife and husband were employed:
a. declined for all Americans, but still remained the highest in the world b. was mostly earned from ownership of stocks and bonds, rather than wages and salaries c. increased very little for most people, but grew tremendously for the very affluent and the rich d. remained lower than in most other industrialized countries