According to Talcott Parsons, masculinity involves a focus on rationality, competition, and goals, which he described as
a. emotional.
b. instrumental.
c. sensitive.
d. sympathetic.
(Answer: b)
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A) Two B) Three C) Four D) Five
Who is the author of Crime and Community?
a. Frank Tannenbaum b. D. E. Strickland c. W. D. Watts d. D. J. Shoemaker
The increase in the number of older people living in the United States and other high-income nations resulted from an increase in life expectancy (greater longevity) combined with: a. low mortality rates
c. a stabilizing of birth rates. b. a decrease in birth rates. d. low crime rates.
When did the study of social change begin in earnest, as a questioning of the two “master narratives” discussed in Chapter 1?
a. 1500, the beginning of “modern times” b. soon after World War II, when the social sciences became empirical and theoretical c. sometime between the fall of the Greek empire and the rise of the Roman empire d. the nineteenth century, first in Europe and then in the US