Ferraro and Johnson (cited by Aulette) interviewed 120 battered women who passed through a shelter and asked them how they decided to leave the batterers. They found six factors that served as a catalyst for making the change
These include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. change in a woman's resources — getting a job or access to a shelter.
b. despair — the disappearance of hope that things would get better.
c. change in the level of violence — either increased abuse or a change they perceived as a threat to their lives.
d. support from the legal system — the arrests of their husbands and the judicial treatment of the battering as a crime.
d
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a. working-class b. unionization c. right-to-work d. closed-shop
__________ are also known as part one offenses.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois observed that a dual heritage creates conflict for people of color: an identity conflict of being black and American. Du Bois referred to this duality as __________.
A. Functional conflict B. The dual-labor market C. Double-consciousness D. The double bind
Familistic values focus on a(n) _____ value system.
a. self-fulfilling b. communal c. hierarchical d. individualistic