How did the media portrayal of families in the 1960s and 1970s differ from reality?
a. Media portrayed families as always being two-parent nuclear families, while most families were single-parent families in reality.
b. Media portrayed families as single-parent families headed by men, while most single-parent families were headed by women in reality.
c. Media portrayed divorce as the common reason for most single-parent families, while death was the most common reason in reality.
d. Media portrayed high levels of poverty and inaccessibility to resources in poor families, while families were not so poor in reality.
Answer: b
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a. corporate class b. working class c. management class d. middle class
Which of the following statements about widowhood is FALSE?
a) Most research suggests that women have a greater difficulty coping with
widowhood than men do.
b) Two-fifths of female widows fall into poverty at some time during the five
years after their husband's death.
c) Men, as compared to women, are generally more dependent on their spouse for
social and emotional support.
d) Widowed men are more likely to remarry than are widowed women.
e) When young people become widowed, their difficulties may be exacerbated
because death during young adulthood and middle age is so unexpected.
Which psychological task characterizes the emotional station of divorce?
a. feeling sad, angry, and lonely b. filing court papers for divorce c. becoming psychologically separate from the spouse d. forming new friendships and connections
Which French sociologist saw the need for socialist reforms of capitalism, but was concerned the working class would be empowered?
a. Alexis de Tocqueville b. Claude Henri Saint-Simon c. Auguste Comte d. Emile Durkheim