Social ______ is the transmission of role and social status from one generation to the next.

A. meritocracy
B. placement
C. regulation
D. posturing


Answer: B. placement

Sociology

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In the United States, about 50 percent of those classified as Hispanic classify themselves as white

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Police officers, lawyers, baseball players, and jazz musicians would all be examples of:

a. occupational subcultures. b. countercultures. c. marginal groups. d. deviant cultures. e. elite group cultures.

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Both connected and cohesive relationships are classified as balanced family systems.

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

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Today, _____ of the population ages fifteen and older in the least-developed countries are illiterate.

a. 3 percent b. 37 percent c. 17 percent d. 63 percent

Sociology