The process of transferring the legal rights, responsibilities , and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents is called ________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Adoption

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The small-producer Chinese family typically engaged in all of the following merchant businesses in the U.S. but

a) laundry. b) clothier. c) restaurant. d) grocery.

Sociology

Social Darwinism continues to surface under different names, but the basic point of these theories is the same, that

a. the poor are poor because they are genetically inferior. b. the poor are poor because they are culturally inferior. c. when poor people rise from poverty, their genes improve to the same degree. d. when middle-class or wealthy people lose their wealth, it is because they are genetically inferior.

Sociology

A new religious movement (NRM) or cult is

A. a large, organized religion that is not officially linked with the state or government. B. generally a small, secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith. C. the concept, developed by J. Milton Yinger, of a religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect, yet remains isolated from society. D. a relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.

Sociology

Capitalist economic systems are characterized by _________ whereas socialist economic systems are characterized by _____________.

A.) dictatorial political systems; democratic political systems B.) the pursuit of profit; the pursuit of collective goals C.) all of the choices here are correct D.) collective ownership of property; private ownership of property

Sociology