The joint family is so termed because of the bonding that results between families upon the marriage of a child from each kinship grouping
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
FALSE
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Why was the title Ms. created?
A) To parallel the title Mr., which does not convey a man's marital status. B) To refer to older unmarried women, since the term "spinster" has fallen out of fashion. C) To replace the term Mrs., which, as an abbreviation for Mistress, conveys an extramarital relationship. D) As a translation of the French term, M., for Monsieur.
Which of the following is argued by the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
A. Language precedes thought. B. Language is a given and forms independent of culture. C. Language homogenizes interpretations of reality across disparate cultures. D. People cannot conceptualize the world only through language.
The concept "retrospective labeling" refers to the process of ________
a. interpreting someone's past consistent with present deviance. b. defining someone as deviant for things done long before. c. criminal adults encouraging their children to become deviant. d. predicting someone's future based on past deviant acts.
Groups with significant social power typically have:
A. no trouble dealing with issues such as gender inequality. B. race as the pivot around which the rest of their lives circles. C. the luxury of changing their ascribed status at will. D. the luxury of remaining unexamined.