What was one of the official names for the social program that offered cash assistance to the poor?
a. Aid to Families with Dependent Children
b. Welfare coupons
c. Charity
d. None of the above
a. Aid to Families with Dependent Children
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Kinship ties are more extended at the two social class extremes
a. true b. false
________ are capable of intimacy, and may even desire it, but they lack the ability to make the commitment necessary to sustain long-term relationships
A) Preintimates B) Intimates C) Pseudointimates D) Isolates
As Adler's account makes clear, the process of "getting in" may
a. be a matter of luck, as when their friendship with a neighbor turned out to be a connection to larger drug smuggling-dealing network. b. involve writing to as many possible subjects as possible in hopes of gaining entry into their world. c. involve careful planning and calculation and is almost never a matter of luck, as when the Adlers intentionally meet and cultivate their relation with a neighbor they know to be a dealer-smuggler. d. require formal introductions through a network of contacts established through months of patient surveillance.
Goal displacement is
A. the tendency for workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems. B. a principal of organizational life according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence. C. overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy. D. the process by which a group, organization, or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.