Ron Stewart, Jr. will inherit all of his father's wealth. Moreover, his children will trace their descent through his last name. When descent and inheritance flow from the father to his male descendents, the family is said to be ____
a. bilateral
b. matrilineal
c. patriarchal
d. matriarchal
e. patrilineal
E
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Which of the following statements is borne out by Durkheim's research?
a. Males are more likely than females to take their own lives. b. Married people are more likely than unmarried people to take their own lives. c. Catholics are more likely than Protestants to take their own lives. d. Jews are more likely than Protestants to take their own lives.
In testing for the significance of the difference between two sample means when the sample size is small, we may assume equal population variances if
a. sample sizes are exactly the same. b. sample sizes are varied. c. sample sizes are approximately equal. d. none of the above, we cannot assume equal population variance.
Which of the following statements is true of the costs of adoption?
A) Foster parents face minimum risk of the parents resurfacing and claiming the child. B) The least expensive adoptions are international adoptions. C) The most expensive adoptions are kinship adoptions. D) Stepparent adoptions have less risk of the child being withdrawn.
Which of the following is NOT considered a contemporary romantic rite of passage, according to the authors of this article?
a. the wedding b. bachelor and bachelorette parties c. divorce proceedings d. bridals showers