When people find themselves trying to meet incompatible expectations within a single role, it is called:
A) role confusion
B) role conflict
C) role stress
D) role strain
D
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Research by Gelles and Strauss found that marital violence occurred in ________ marriages
A) one in 4 B) one in 6 C) one in 9 D) one in 12
Widely practiced throughout much of recorded history, infanticide is defined as
(a) the killing of infants and young children (b) infants and children under age 6 killing each other. (c) jealous children killing younger siblings. (d) unwed mothers killing their children.
Functionalist theories of deviance a. fear that deviance creates the breakdown of society
b. view deviance as necessary in order to clarify what the norms of society are. c. believe that punishment of deviance is dysfunctional because it prevents the deviance that is necessary for society. d. assume that norms are largely meaningless.
Which of the following dimensions of evolution did Spencer claim involves the merging of larger and larger groups of people?
a. integration b. heterogeneity c. definiteness d. increasing coherence