The ____ family consists of one or more nuclear families plus uncles, aunts, grandparents, and other family members
a. blended
b. tribal
c. consensual
d. extended
D
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What are the purposes of theory?
What will be an ideal response?
A sociologist wants to know how satisfied workers at Company X are with their jobs. She goes to personnel records to find out how many years each worker has been with the company as an indicator of how satisfied they must be. One benefit of her method is that later researchers can easily use her method to produce the same data and results. A colleague argues with her, however, that years with the
company is not an accurate measure of job satisfaction. The sociologist's method might be said to be a. reliable and valid. b. reliable but not valid. c. valid and generalizable. d. valid but not reliable. e. neither valid nor reliable.
Religion first became a primary topic of interest for which generation of sociologists?
A. Modern sociologists B. Cold War-era sociologists C. The founding thinkers D. Social-psychologists in the 1920s
According to your text, which of the following statements is true?
A. functionalists portray the elderly as being socially isolated, with reduced social roles B. Internationalists see older people as being involved in new networks of people and in changing social roles C. conflict theorists regard older people as being victimized by social structure, with their social roles relatively unchanged but devalued D. all of the above