According to social gerontologists, the primary reason most people deny they are aging is because they
a. do not want their friends and children to think of them as "old."
b. do not feel "old."
c. associate old age with death and want to deny its reality.
d. deny many things in life.
Answer: c. associate old age with death and want to deny its reality.
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a. 0.34. b. 0.68. c. 0.95. d. 0.99.
A society is in a state of "anomie" when a. the standards for behavior are not clear
b. the major social institutions reinforce the same cultural values. c. there are more secondary groups than primary groups. d. some segments of society have more wealth than others.
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A. economical B. class C. scientific D. ethnocentric