In some cultures, men's violence against women functions to maintain

a. women's secret but influential power within the household.
b. low divorce rates.
c. an authoritarian power structure that keeps men in power.
d. the criminal justice institutions.


c

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The households in Puritan New England were large because they

a. often consisted of at least three generations with the majority of children living in the same household as parents and grandparents, sometimes great-grandparents. b. included parents, children, extended kin such as unmarried aunts, and other unrelated people such as boarders, apprentices and/or servants. c. included two or three nuclear families, most often the families of two or three brothers along with their parents.

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

An adequate health-care system provides more than just medical services.

Sociology

Total institutions were described by Goffman as a. coercive organizations

b. well-integrated throughout society. c. having very differentiated populations. d. responsive to the needs of the individual.

Sociology

Sociologists look to identify the scarce resources that pulled Greenlanders into the global division of labor. From the 16th through the late 19th centuries that resource was

a. oil, extracted from the ground. b. oil, extracted from whales. c. rubber. d. ivory.

Sociology