In Least Industrialized Nations and among many traditional groups, women bear 20 to 22 children in their lifetime. This is near the maximum number of children that women are capable of bearing, which is referred to as ________

A) the fertility rate
B) fecundity
C) the crude birth rate
D) morbidity


B

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Shared norms and clear societal expectations are factors associated with

a. the ease of a role transition b. marital satisfaction c. marital communication and negotiation d. marital power dynamics

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The 1972 Furman decision determined that capital punishment was:

a. racist but necessary to deter future crime. b. racist and unconstitutional due to the uncontrolled discretion of judges and juries in sentencing. c. not racist since more blacks than whites committed violent crimes. d. a just way to deal with all rapists, regardless of race.

Sociology

Jamie is interested in uncovering the institutional practices that create sexism in politics. She will probably use the _________ paradigm

a. naturalism b. ethnomethodology c. grounded theory d. institutional ethnography e. participatory action research

Sociology

When couples who fell in love at first sight were compared with those who did not:

a. couples who fell in love at first sight had higher marital quality b. couples who reported that love grew over time had higher marital quality c. there was no difference in marital quality d. no research is available on this issue

Sociology