The text points out that something must happen to cause family stress or to precipitate a family crisis. That something is what social scientists call a

a. precondition.
b. dysfunction.
c. structural threat.
d. stressor.


d

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Lawrence Kohlberg recognized three stages in moral development as individuals pass from childhood through adulthood. The earliest stage is:

A) premoral B) preconventional C) conventional D) postconventional

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According to Richter-Montpetit (2007), American women soldiers were used to promote what ideology?

a. The superiority of whiteness b. The freedom of American Citizens c. The gender equality in American d. The world was more progressive than Iraq

Sociology

The sociological imagination is the capacity to think systematically about howthe things we experience as personal problems ________

a. are really social issues shared by others living in a similar time and location b. reflect our individual choices and not the culture as a whole c. most likely do not have roots in social contexts d. are the result of psychological forces, which guide our daily life

Sociology

Which of the following is an example of resocialization?

A. Getting married B. Relocating to a new neighborhood C. Learning about death from a hospice caregiver D. Joining a new urban gang

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