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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a. conformity b. retreatism c. innovation d. rebellion e. none of the above
Variables measured at the interval level cannot be used to classify, categorize, or rank order
data. a. True b. False
Since gamma is a PRE measure, it tells us
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
All of the following classes were identified by sociologist Erik Wright in his Marxian model EXCEPT the:
a. capitalist class. b. managerial class. c. small-business class. d. middle class.