The study of the distribution of disease among a population is referred to as
A. sociology.
B. clinical sociology.
C. epidemiology.
D. geography.
E. enterology.
Answer: C
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In Durkheim's perspective, if you saw that one religious group had higher suicide rates than another, and that single people had higher suicide rates than married people, which statement would you make?
a. Protestants have high suicide rates similar to Catholics. b. Single people have lower suicide rates than married people. c. People without children have equal suicide rates to people with children. d. Suicide rates are related to how closely tied people are to one another in groups. e. Suicide rates may be related to individual income and ascribed characteristics.
In the experiment conducted by Pager, Western, and Bonikowski, which of the following was true?
a. White and black testers with criminal records received the same number of callbacks for jobs. b. Black testers received more callbacks for jobs than Hispanic testers. c. White testers with criminal records received the same number of callbacks for jobs as black testers with no criminal records. d. Criminal records did not negatively impact white testers' callback rates.
Professor Lip was interested in why grandparents went to court to obtain custody of their grandchildren. One of the grandparents that Lip talked with commented on the issue of "parental neglect" of the grandchild. Once the issue of neglect had been identified, Lip began to notice that other grandparents also used the concept of "parental neglect" to explain why they had a legal relationship with their grandchild. Lip was
a. comparing incidents applicable to each category. b. integrating categories and their properties. c. delimiting the theory. d. writing theory. e. deconstructing theory.
Which factor least contributes to increases in Asian income?
A. higher levels of educational attainment B. promotion to the highest levels of management C. numbers of workers per family unit D. length of time in the United States