Because schools bring together people of similar ages, social class, and race/ethnicity, young people often meet future marriage partners. Which latent function of education does this illustrate?
a. Creation of a generation gap
b. Transmission of culture
c. Matchmaking and the production of social networks
d. Restriction of some activities
c
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a. burglary b. larceny-theft c. arson d. robbery
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following is NOT among the findings of Theodore Caplow and his associates in their analysis of Middletown forty years after the original study by the Lynds?
a. At the lower end of the economic scale, lifestyles were more homogeneous. b. Factory workers had risen to the middle stratum of social life in Middletown. c. Labor unions were still excluded from the mainstream of life in Middletown. d. The distinctive upper class that the Lynds saw emerging in the 1930s had vanished by the 1970s.
The concept "authoritarian" refers to a political system that
a. is well legitimated. b. relies on more than one kind of authority. c. denies most people participation in government. d. has free elections.