The “expansion of morbidity” describes how __________
A) as people are living longer, they are spending more time in bad health
B) more and more people are dying due to violence and disease
C) cultures around the world are increasingly obsessed with death
D) cemeteries have run out of room for the dead
Answer: A
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a. homogamy. b. exogamy. c. miscegenation. d. endogamy.
Which of the following is true?
a. According to Radcliffe?Brown, religion provides individuals with a sense of comfort and anxiety relief. b. What a person believes about dying has more influence than how deeply he or she believes it. c. George Homans disagreed with both Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown, arguing that death anxiety is highest for both the very religious and the nonbeliever. d. The empirical research by Michael Leming supported Homans’s theorizing on the relationship between religion and death anxiety. e. All of the above.
Which of the following is false in regard to patterns of discrimination within organizations?
A. The most powerful positions in any organization are typically held by White men of upper-class status. B. Discrimination persists even when formal barriers have been removed. C. Minority employees increasingly have the same amounts of education as White employees. D. In situations where minority job applicants have the same amount of education as Whites, job offers are equally likely.
Fatima thinks that much of what is learned in school has nothing directly to do with the formal content of lessons. Children spend long hours in school and get an early taste of what the world of work will be like, learning that they are expected to be punctual and apply themselves diligently to the tasks that those in authority set for them. Sociologists call this
a. the three Rs. b. critical-thinking lessons. c. the school of hard knocks. d. the hidden curriculum.