Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement?
A. Globally, divorce rates are rising.
B. In both Hinduism and Islam, marriage is a sacred institution and the community often ostracizes divorced women.
C. Divorce rates are higher in rural parts of India as compared to the rates found in urban areas.
D. Cohabitation rates and divorce rates are both high in Sweden.
C
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What did Alexis de Tocqueville think of the United States?
A. Despite the emphasis on individualism, Americans evidenced little independence of thought. B. There was no evidence to support the idea that belief in equality had influenced American social institutions. C. Americans were so fixated on the rights of minorities that minorities effectively ruled the majority. D. Americans were generous, compassionate people who were indifferent to their own social class.
A nation-state is a unit of political organization that has recognizable national boundaries and whose citizens possess specific legal rights and obligations. They emerge as countries develop specific geographic territories and acquire greater ability to defend their borders
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The particular value of the elaboration model is to show
a. the logic of causal analysis. b. the origins of causal analysis. c. the limitations of causal analysis. d. the ethical implications of causal analysis. e. the extension of causal analysis
Barrington Moore studied the political outcomes of revolutions, that is, why in the last century societies have emerged from revolutions and been either:
a. inclusive of all ethnic groups or exclusive for only one ethnic group or religion b. capitalist democracies, fascist or socialist c. free societies or authoritarian societies d. stable and able to progress or unstable and subject to upheavals for years to come