The idea of “potential selves” is the fantasy parents have in pretending they could
a. be home all day with their children.
b. buy their children anything they wanted.
c. quit their jobs to take care of their children.
d. spend more time with their children.
d. spend more time with their children.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
When is the most likely time for a female college student to be sexually assaulted?
a. Freshman and sophomore years b. Junior and senior years c. Graduate school d. There is no time more likely than others.
Which of the following is not an aspect of structural mobility?
a. less qualified workers take lower-level jobs, while more qualified workers take higher level jobs b. higher social classes have fewer children, so more lower-class workers need to fill higher-level jobs c. industrialization and computerization tend to eliminate lower-level jobs d. technology creates more jobs at higher levels than at lower levels e. discrimination in hiring tends to allocate most new jobs to the native born
If statistical analysis demonstrated that suicide rates had increased in a country, one might analyze this using Durkheim’s theories by examining __________
A) social factors that cause increasing social equality, which Durkheim believed caused discontent B) social forces that are known to cause increases in mental illness such as schizophrenia C) social changes influencing social norms and levels of social integration D) changes in the nature of class conflict, which Durkheim believed was a major source of social strain