According to the chapter, the Amish believe their practice of the Meidung is the best way to get an individual to see the error of his or her ways. This practice is also known as
a. confession.
b. baptism.
c. shunning.
d. scolding
Answer: c. shunning.
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Todd Clear suggests all but one of these are true about mass incarceration:
a. It focuses primarily on the poor. b. It results in increased levels of broken homes. c. It results in a drop in crime because more people go to prison. d. It increases a belief in poor neighborhoods that the "system" is unfair.
In heterosexual marriages, women do far more work in the home than men do, and have much less leisure time
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following was NOT an oppressive White response to Black emancipation immediately following the Civil War?
a. Black people, even elderly women such as Rosa Parks, were required to give their bus seats to White people. b. The Ku Klux Klan and local vigilante groups conducted raids, lynchings, beatings, and burnings. c. The courts were much more likely to send Blacks to prison than Whites. d. Overt slavery was replaced with a more covert kind of slavery: sharecropping.
Which of the following would be a sociological explanation for family violence in the United States?
A. Achieving goals through violence is a feature of the culture. B. The intimate knowledge possessed by family members allows them to know which “buttons to push” during arguments. C. There are many stresses and strains associated with family life. D. all of these