According to C. Wright Mills, the difficulties that John and Mary experience in their marriage represent a personal trouble. The fact that 250 out of every 1000 marriages ends in divorce within the first 4 years, however, is:

a. a public issue.
b. a sign of moral collapse.
c. a latent dysfunction of marriage.
d. meaningless.


a

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data. a. True b. False

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a. the improvement in predicting the order of pairs of cases by taking the dependent variable (Y) into account b. the improvement in predicting the order of pairs of cases by taking the independent variable (X) into account c. how much better off we are by knowing the value of the independent variable d. how much is gained by having full knowledge of both scores for each case

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a. capitalist class. b. managerial class. c. small-business class. d. middle class.

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