A recent survey of freshmen at four-year colleges found that nearly three-fourths said their parents had no formal education beyond high school
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
F
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Hirschi's somewhat innovative measurement of social class background is
_______. a. father's income b. father's years of schooling + mother's years of schooling c. an index of cultural objects in the home (e.g., newspapers, books) d. family income e. all of the above
Howard Becker said that sociology can be best understood as the study of people "doing things together." This definition reminds us that:
A. people must have some knowledge of each other before they can really do anything together. B. neither society nor the individual exists in isolation; each is dependent on the other. C. mass culture and large only large-scale interactions that involve many people can be understood by sociologists. D. sociology is only interested in the way people act, not in the way they think.
The statement “I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am” sums up which sociological theory of the self?
a. “I” and “Me” b. looking glass self c. conflict perspective d. functional perspective
Up until World War II, industry operated with the assumption that men worked outside the home and women did unpaid work within the home. Therefore, men were paid a __________, an income intended to support a family.
A. family wage B. fair day's wage for a fair day's work C. working man's wage D. breadwinner's wage