Comparing societies in history and around the world, we see that ________
a. many societies lack social stratification.
b. all societies are the same.
c. ways in which people are unequal and how unequal they are vary from society to society.
d. patterns of social inequality do not change over time.
Answer: c
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According to Daly's "Feminist Theory," estimates of female involvement in gangs range
from: a. one to nine percent b. ten to thirty-eight percent c. more than fifty percent d. none of the above
_____ predicts that people will withdraw from participation in society as they age, and they will be relieved of responsibility
a. Conflict theory b. Age stratification c. Disengagement theory d. Social learning
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that
a. people are forever prisoners of their language. b. language and culture are fairly unrelated. c. exposure to another language can cause a person to become ethnocentric. d. functionalism is more plausible than conflict theory when studying culture. e. our view of the world depends on the particular language we have learned.
At the peak of the baby boom, how many children, on average, did U.S. women have?
a. 6.7 children b. 5.7 children c. 4.7 children d. 3.7 children