Sociological research on education has debunked many common assumptions. It has found that
a. the education system is primarily a way to learn and to get ahead
b. poor children rarely have the same resources in schools that middle-class and elite students have.
c. today, girls are achieving more rapidly than boys in the areas of math and science.
d. social cliques do not form until adulthood.
b
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Social interaction encourages ethnocentrism because
a. people who interact come to share a culture. b. as we interact with some we become isolated from others. c. when we don't interact with others, their differences become difficult to understand. d. all of these
Which of the following is true with respect to parenting and self-reported happy and unhappy couples?
A. Because of the larger amount of conflict in the home, unhappy couples are more likely to agree on how to discipline their children than happy couples. B. Happy couples are more than twice as likely than unhappy couples to agree on how to share the responsibilities of childrearing. C. Unhappy couples are more likely to be satisfied with the amount of attention they focus on their marriage (as compared to the amount of attention they focus on their children) than happy couples. D. All of these answers are correct.
In terms of how men and women reacted to Whitty's scenario, which of the following is most accurate?
a. Women felt more than men that emotional infidelity was equally as bad as sexual infidelity. b. Men felt more than women that emotional infidelity was equally as bad as sexual infidelity. c. Women and men both thought equally that emotional and sexual infidelity were the same sort of betrayal to one's spouse or partner. d. Women and men both thought that sexual infidelity was a much worse transgression than emotional infidelity.