Cal and Fern live in different communities in the same U.S. state. Cal’s town has high-quality schools and many extracurricular opportunities for youth and families where they can socialize and build community. Fern’s town has schools that are characterized by scarce resources, and there few opportunities for youth and families to intermingle or socialize. A sociologist would most likely
argue that __________ community is the better of the two, in terms of life chances, because it has stronger __________.
A) Cal’s; social networks
B) Fern’s; claims-makers
C) Cal’s; agreed-upon facts
D) Fern’s; media attention
A) Cal’s; social networks
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a. Very lax child rearing practices b. Being taught in childhood to question authority c. Inability to release frustration against authority figures who are the source of the frustration d. Aggression is taken out against those who are high in the individual's ranking system
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Nancy Chodorow drew from Freud’s object relations perspective
Deaths within a population are called ____
a. morbidity b. mortality c. terminality d. finality e. turnover
The medicalization of society refers to the
A. growing role of medicine as a major institution of social control. B. election of medical specialists to high offices in government. C. dominance of hospitals by boards of directors with medical backgrounds. D. approach in which medical experts define all of the illnesses or diseases in our society.