Rites of passage are
A. gestures, objects, and language that form the basis of human communication.
B. stressful periods of self-evaluation, often occurring between 35 and 50 years of age.
C. rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
D. expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females.
C. rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.
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Jon sees yet another commercial for a prescription drug on television. He says, "In America, we feel there is a pill or some sort of medical cure to fix every problem." Jon is voicing which sociological idea?
a. Sick role behavior b. Medicalization of America c. DSM translation d. Diagnostic and Statistical myth
Which of the following is NOT an assumption required for a test of hypothesis with a single sample mean?
a. A representative sample b. Sample size (N) larger than 1,000 c. Normal sampling distribution d. Interval-ratio level of measurement
When hair is evaluated in racial terms such that "bad" hair is associated with the racial category "black" and good hair with the category "white" it is
a. reified. b. institutionalized. c. racialized. d. idealized.
A theory states that increasing a person's formal higher education results in increased earnings over the individual's lifetime. In this theory, "higher education" is the ________
a. independent variable.
b. dependent variable.
c. correlation.
d. effect.