The process by which people take as their own and accept as binding the norms, values, beliefs, and language needed to participate in the larger community is termed
a. adaptation. c. assimilation.
b. internalization. d. acculturation.
B
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Women report more marital problems than do their husbands, although interestingly, women tend to blame themselves for many of these problems. Why is this, according to the text?
a) Women often have a subordinate position in marriage, and as a result, wives monitor and interpret their marriages more often than do husbands. b) Wives are more easily frustrated by money problems since they tend to pay the bills. c) Wives are more likely to want larger families than are their husbands. d) Husbands are more likely to get their feelings hurt, but they try to hide it. e) Wives are far more likely to get angry or jealous or become domineering, critical, moody, and untalkative, and then feel guilty afterwards.
In regards to the early thinkers, discuss the major contributions of the following individuals to the field of sociology: Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau, Herbert Spencer, and Emile Durkheim
What will be an ideal response?
The variables FECHLD, YEAR, and SEX have all been included in the GSS regularly since 1977. If the researchers removed the FILTER used to create Figure 7.1, and then re-ran the analyses, what would happen to the overall number of cases in the analysis?
Figure 7.1
A team of researchers is interested to know whether beliefs about working mothers are related to respondents’ gender, and how these beliefs have changed over recent years. They make a cross-tab of FECHLD by YEAR, using SEX as a control variable. The variable FECHLD corresponds to the survey question, “Please tell me whether you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with it… A working mother can establish just as warm and secure a relationship with her children as a mother who does not work.”
a. The number of cases would likely decrease.
b. The number of cases would likely increase.
c. The number of cases would likely remain the same.