Nearly one-half of all college-qualified, low and moderate-income high school graduates are unable to afford college. They also have lower rates of bachelor's degree attainment than their middle- and high-income peers. These statistics show that college cost has become a serious ______.
A. objective social problem
B. subjective social reality
C. social construction
D. dialectic
Answer: B
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What type of theory would be best applied to the problems facing educated African American women in finding suitable marriage partners?
A. symbolic interactionism B. conflict theory C. intersectional theory D. feminist theory
Matching
1) sex 2) gender 3) primary sex characteristics 4) secondary sex characteristics 5) patriarchy 6) minority group 7) honor killing 8 ) suttee 9) female circumcision 10) feminism 11) gender tracking 12) glass ceiling 13) sexual harassment 14) life span 15) life expectancy 16) gerotranscendence 17) baby boom 18) age cohort 19) baby bust 20) activity theory 21) continuity theory 22) Townsend Plan A) the practice of burning the living widow with the body of the deceased husband B) physical distinctions between males and females that are not directly connected to reproduction C) people who are discriminated against on the basis of physical or cultural characteristics, regardless of their numbers D) the abuse of one's position of authority to force unwanted sexual demands on someone E) behaviors and attitudes that a society considers proper for its males and females; masculinity or femininity F) the tendency for college degrees to follow gender-reinforcing male-female distinctions G) a form of violence against females where a woman who is thought to have disgraced her family is killed by a male relative H) another term for female genital cutting or clitoral excision I) vagina, penis, and other organs related to reproduction J) the mostly invisible barrier that keeps women from advancing to the top levels of the workplace K) a society or group in which men dominate women; authority vested in males L) the association of certain activities with one sex or another M) biological characteristics that distinguish females from males N) the philosophy that men and women should be politically, economically, and socially equal O) social expectations of men to have large muscles, endurance and stamina, victory, and achievement P) a large number of births within a relatively short span of years, leading to a population of individuals who proceed through the life course together Q) the number of years that an average person at any age, including newborns, can expect to live R) one of the first retirement proposals, one that would have paid older Americans a monthly stipend funded by a national sales tax S) the idea that people adjust to retirement by continuing aspects of their earlier lives T) the maximum length of life of a species; for humans, the longest time that a human can live U) the self-transformation that the elderly experience to feel more at home with the universe V) people born at roughly the same time who pass through the life course together W) a small number of births within a relatively short span of years who proceed through the life course together X) the view that satisfaction during old age is related to a person's amount and quality of activity
The sociological term for a set of social relationships that link one individual to others is __________
a. social solidarity b. social support c. social network d. social institution