__________ is an estimate of the average lifetime in years of people born in a specific year
a. Life expectancy b. Longevity determination
c. Life prospects d. Life projection
a
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In the Baby Doe case,
a. ?doctors performed surgery unlikely to improve the baby’s quality of life. b. ?parents forced the doctors to perform surgery that the doctors considered unwarranted. c. ?the baby died after its parents refused to authorize potentially life-saving surgery. d. doctors demanded federal funding for performing surgery on a retarded baby. e. ?lawyers forced parents to comply with their doctors’ decisions regarding their baby’s care.
Primary-source data are data __________
a. collected by researchers themselves b. collected by others c. expected to overturn previous findings d. provided by the American Sociological Association
The maximum number of years that an average person in a society could expect to live is called:
a. life expectancy b. fecundity c. the crude death rate d. the life span
Which important early sociological theorist coined the term sociology and was interested in developing sociology as a science?
A. Randall Collins B. Auguste Comte C. Harriet Martineau D. Herbert Spencer