Many actors and actresses earn millions each year and display their wealth by living in upscale mansions and driving expensive vehicles. This is an example of:
a. stratified consumption
b. conspicuous consumption
c. dangerous consumption
d. ranked consumption
b. conspicuous consumption
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Aulette discussed the policy implications for the different theoretical frameworks used to understand family violence. The individualistic framework implies social policy that
a. changes individuals, encouraging women to be more assertive and men to learn more appropriate ways to express anger. b. alleviates problems like unemployment that cause stress in families. c. eliminates ideologies that promote or glorify violence. d. eliminates the oppression of and discrimination against women.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Functional status and ability are highly correlated with age.
The role of women in the family has changed dramatically in the United States during the last 50 years. Women have furthered their education and developed careers. This change in the family has necessitated adaptive changes in school systems, corporations, churches, and other facets of society to provide child care services. This situation reflects which view of social change?
A. the equilibrium model B. the social evolution model C. the progressive model D. the conflict model
Dependency theory is defined as
A. applying to the interactionist perspective. B. a far-reaching process by which peripheral nations move from having traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies. C. a functionalist approach proposing that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations. D. an approach contending that as developing countries make economic advances, they remain weak and subservient to core nations.