Which of the following is NOT a common myth and stereotype about the elderly?
a. Older people lose their mental faculties.
b. The elderly are sexually inactive.
c. Older women are hypochondriacs with more health problems than men.
d. Older women are confined to rocking chairs and knitting.
e. Older women have a strong sense of personal identity and independence.
e
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a. true b. false
In the U.S., ___________ are the poorest of all families
a. Hispanic and black male-headed households b. two-parent households c. Hispanic and black female-headed households d. white female-headed households
Material culture includes
a. physical objects people have invented, such as a diamond ring. b. conceptions of what is right and good, such as "true friendship". c. rules for behavior, such as "stop for pedestrians in crosswalk". d. the desire for material possessions.
In the film Race the Power of an Illusion, is the following statement true or false about Southeastern European Immigrants in the early 20th Century. Eugenicist Charles Davenport wrote: The population of the United States will on account of the great influx of blood from Southeastern Europe, rapidly become darker in pigment smaller in stature, more given to crimes of larceny, kidnapping, assault, murder, rape, sexual immorality. And the ration of the insanity of the population will rapidly increase."
a. true b. false