By sponsoring many clubs and organizations, churches serve as a training ground for community leaders while also allowing members to refine their organizational skills. In doing so, churches fulfill their ________.
A. manifest functions
B. latent dysfunctions
C. manifest dysfunctions
D. latent functions
Answer: D
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The number of charges of sex, race, and ethnic discrimination to the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has:
a) declined slightly since 2005 b) declined by nearly 50 percent since 2005 c) remained stable over the past 20 years. d) increased during the 1970s, but has since stabilized. e) increased since 2005
The term __________ refers to illegal or unethical acts involving the use of power by government officials or illegal/unethical acts perpetrated against the government in efforts to usurp power
a. occupational crime b. political crime c. index crime d. corporate crime
Today, a reasonable definition of family would be:
a. a man and a woman and their offspring. b. a group of people related by marriage and birth. c. a group of people linked by blood, adoption, marriage, or a quasi-marital relationship. d. any group of people who cohabit for any significant length of time.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Polygamy, polygyny, and polyandry are all forms of serial monogamy. 2. There are at least five countries in Africa where 20 percent of the men are in polygamous marriages. 3. Polygyny is a social system in which women may have several husbands and in which women are more powerful than men. 4. Polyandry, a system in which women may have several husbands, is an example—albeit a rare one—of a social order in which women are more powerful than men. 5. More than 95 percent of all men and women in the U.S. marry at least once during their lifetimes.