What are the criticisms of the family decline perspective?

What will be an ideal response?


The proponents of this perspective view lower marriage rates and the rising rates of cohabitation, divorce, and premarital sex as a decline in adult commitment. They are concerned that increasing numbers of single-parent families endanger children and that gay marriage devalues heterosexual relationships. This perspective ignores the many uplifting values that diverse family forms embody, such as equality and the freedom to choose whom we love and how to structure our own families.

Sociology

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A. The victims were mainly elderly people. B. The victims were essentially all African Americans. C. The way social services were organized contributed to the death toll. D. A and B. E. A and C.

Sociology

According to Weber, religion resembles science in its search into the unknown

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology

The wealthiest 1 percent of U.S. families (the "super-rich") controls about _____ of the nation's privately held wealth

a. 25 percent b. 35 percent c. 65 percent d. 85 percent

Sociology

Define material culture and symbolic culture. Provide one example of a cultural object, and explain this object in terms of both material and symbolic culture.

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology