During the golden fifties, marriage and child care experts typically advised women to ________.
A) be assertive and demand that their husbands participate in child care
B) pursue an active career to be more satisfied individuals
C) please their husbands and be full-time homemakers
D) get a college education in order to be better wives and mothers
C) please their husbands and be full-time homemakers
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Members of the congregation Ammerman studied knew she was a researcher
a. True b. False
According to Marx and other conflict theorists, in a capitalist cycle where does most of the wealth end up?
a. with the workers b. with the wealthy c. equally among all. d. none of the above
"Triangulation" in this chapter means:
A. A technique for testing the reliability of interviewers. B. Breaking variables down into three ordered ("ordinal") categories. C. A longitudinal study that involves interviewing the same individuals at three distinct points in time. D. Studying a situation from several perspectives with distinct methods. E. A method for carrying out a t-test of statistical significance for differences among three matched samples.
Which of the following statements best describes the meaning of the 19.8, in the upper-left corner of Figure 5.2?
A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.2, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents’ sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question “On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?” The researcher re-coded DEMTODAY with the command “DEMTODAY (R: 0-2; 3-5; 6-7; 8-10).”
a. Of all the respondents surveyed, 19.8 % of respondents identified as lower-class and believed that democracy in America is not working well at all.
b. Of the respondents who believed that democracy in America is not working at all, 19.8% described themselves as being from the lower-class.
c. Of those respondents described themselves as lower-class, 19.8 believed that democracy in America is not working at all.
d. About 20 people surveyed identified as lower-class and believed that democracy in America is not working well at all.