What did the author of this chapter conclude about the religiosity of Americans over the life course?
a. After people have children themselves, they tend to move to communities where churches are more important and to think that they should teach their children about religion.
b. In the oldest part of the life course, church and the support of religion become less important to Americans.
c. Americans in their twenties are slightly more religious than middle-age Americans.
d. Parents, schools, and churches invest in children's religiosity somewhat haphazardly.
a
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A) is more positive than primary socialization. B) is more negative than primary socialization. C) gives us basic behavior patterns. D) gives us new behavior patterns for specific situations.
The Marxist view of alienation refers to
a. feelings of isolation and loneliness of individuals. b. the separation of human beings from important productive property, from the products and services they create, from one another, and from themselves in the work world of corporate capitalism. c. feelings of helplessness when confronted with problems such as a serious illness. d. people experiencing dissatisfaction with their own lives.
Define the term emotional labor and provide three examples of occupations that require emotional labor.
What will be an ideal response?
The term ___ refers to the phenomena that result when groups of individuals from 2 different cultures come into continuous firsthand contact and experience subsequent changes in the original patterns of either or both groups.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).