Discuss the three reasons people stay in violent relationships

What will be an ideal response?


Victims—particularly women living with violent men—stay with their abusive partners because of 1. fear of partner, isolation, or poverty; 2. love, pity, duty, guilt, or hope; and 3. low self-esteem, childhood experience, and learned helplessness. The student should discuss each of these reasons.

Sociology

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President Reagan advanced a conservative position defining drugs as a moral challenge and urged parents to teach their children the importance of resisting drugs, capturing this idea in the slogan

a. "Drugs are bad medicine." b. "Just say no to drugs." c. "This is your brain on drugs … any questions?" d. "Declare war on drugs."

Sociology

Whitbourne and colleagues developed a measure to assess people's use of assimilation and accommodation in identity formation. This measure is called the

a. Assimilation Accommodation Test b. Identity Formation Indicator-General c. Identity and Experiences Scale-General d. General Self-Perception Profile

Sociology

Why do children of divorce/separation suffer academically?

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

Not all collective behavior takes place in face-to-face collectivities. __________ behavior is collective behavior that takes place when people who may be geographically separated from one another respond to the same event in much the same way

a. Riot b. Mass c. Mob d. Panic

Sociology