Marriage is __________
A) synonymous with the nuclear family
B) uncommon in most societies outside of the United States
C) always patrilineal
D) the most common foundation for family formation
Answer: D
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A. He studied with Emile Durkheim in Paris. B. He replicated Durkheim's study of suicide on a small scale in the Great Lakes region. C. He observed normative regulation as a process that takes place in interaction. D. He combined quantitative and qualitative methods in small research projects. E. He replicated Durkheim's study of religion by carrying out ethnographic research in small hunter-gatherer societies that practiced totemism and animism.
For a government to be stable, what quality must exist?
A) The government must have a large military force to back it. B) The leader must be charismatic. C) The government must be based on democratic principles. D) The source of the power must be perceived as legitimate.
Two key problems in the analysis of existing statistics are
a. sampling size and sampling error. b. longitudinal and cross-sectional issues. c. units of analysis and the ecological fallacy. d. reliability and validity. e. subjectivity and sampling error
According to Carol Gilligan, who proposed care ethics:
a. there is no difference between men s and women s ethical sense b. while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength. c. in the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection. d. both b and c e. none of the above