Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. How we conceive children and give birth to them is influenced by macro-level factors as well as micro-level factors.
2. The medicalization of childbirth refers to the new technologies developed in the 1980s that significantly reduced infant and maternal mortality.
3. The medicalization of childbirth has been reduced in recent years, evidenced by the declining number of C-section deliveries, according to the World Health Organization.
4. When Dickson was adopted, his birth mother and the adoptive parents decided to remain in contact, seeing each other once a year and sending pictures throughout the year. This is an example of a public adoption.
5. A closed adoption is one in which the birth records are sealed and the birth mother and child have no further contact.
1. T
2. F
3. F
4. F
5. T
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b. Being born into a particular generation may significantly influence chances for social mobility. c. Social mobility within the U.S. is virtually impossible. d. Most people remain in the same social class as their parents.
Levandus is biologically a male but prefers to dress in a very feminine manner and wear makeup. Levandus prefers to use the pronouns she/her/hers. Levandus would most likely identify as ______.
A. intersexual B. heterosexual C. homosexual D. transgender
Results mapping is a combination of ____.
a. qualitative and quantitative methods. b. formative and summative evaluation. c. immediate and longitudinal outcomes. d. pretest and posttest evaluation.
Society-induced conditions that harm any segment of the population, and acts and conditions that violate the norms and values found in society, define __________.
A) social problems
B) self-actualization
C) cultural deprivation
D) the sociological imagination