We may experience role strain when
A) The same role has demands and expectations that contradict each other.
B) We try to simultaneously play different roles with contradictory rules.
C) We adjust to leaving roles that are central to our identity.
D) We try to occupy multiple positions at the same time.
A
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a. excessive "hot flashes." b. uterine cancer. c. fetal miscarriages. d. birth deformities.
When research questions have more to do with how people interact and less with how they say they interact, what research method is usually best?
a. a survey b. in-depth interviews c. ethnographic observation d. a social experiment
Each party to the exchange must perceive that they are not paying too high a cost relative to the rewards gained; Homans’s titled this concept
a. behavioral propositions. b. elementary social behavior. c. neoclassic economics. d. distributive justice
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which
a. deported all people of Japanese ancestry living within the United States.
b. forcibly relocated all people of Japanese ancestry to military camps in remote inland areas.
c. placed all people of Japanese ancestry in existing U.S. prisons.
d. extended citizenship to all Japanese people in the hope of encouraging their loyalty.