During a sermon in church, a parishioner begins to talk to the person sitting next to her in an audible tone of voice. A man in another pew turns around, frowns at her, and says, "Shhhhhhhh." This illustrates a(n):
a. informal sanction. b. formal sanction
c. taboo. d. core value.
a
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Aaron lives with his wife and children in a neighborhood in which most families are nuclear. His brother lives separately in the same locality with his wife and children
Aaron and his brother visit each other's houses regularly and help each other financially. Aaron's family is an example of a(n) ________. a. blended family b. egalitarian family c. modified extended family d. pluralistic family
Most sociologists would agree that television has a positive impact on young people by encouraging ____________.
a. imagination b. physical activity c. global awareness d. teenage initiative
In a study to assess the relative effectiveness of three different medications for depressive symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder,three randomly selected groups of participants receive one of the three medications and their level of
depression is measured before and after treatment. In this study, level of depression is the A) interaction effect. B) marginal mean. C) independent variable. D) dependent variable.
All of the following are true about the inventor of the chi-square test EXCEPT
A) his name was Karl Pearson. B) he also invented the method of figuring correlation used today. C) he plagiarized most of his ideas (or “borrowed heavily”) from other statisticians. D) he also did work in the now-discredited field of eugenics.