A European American woman, over age 85, was recently admitted to a hospital and has problems with IADLs and has no siblings or children living nearby. This describes the typical

a. nursing home resident.
b. Alzheimer's patient.
c. adult day care client.
d. elderly person who lives independently.


ANSWER: a

Sociology

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a. Truman b. Fitzgerald c. Eisenhower d. Rommel

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___________ A value system embracing highly masculine behaviors and including a "double standard."

What will be an ideal response?

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A particular teacher spends eighty-percent of her time filling out proper forms required by the school district and the rest of her time actually teaching. This illustrates which characteristic of a bureaucracy?

A. written rules and regulations B. impersonality C. division of labor D. hierarchy of authority

Sociology

Which of the following is a type of disembedding that removes social relations from local contexts? Select all, but only those that apply.

a. Distanciation b. Symbolic tokens c. Expert systems d. Disflexivity

Sociology