The long-term impact of a fertility decline on the age structure is to
a. make it younger.
b. make it older.
c. produce a youth bulge.
d. produce a middle-age bulge
B
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Marx described the pursuit of profit which drives capitalism as
a. a boundless thirst – a werewolf-like hunger for profit. b. the key to economic progress. c. driven by human needs. d. a great moral force.
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a. one way; culture affects social structure b. one way; social structure affects culture c. non-existent; neither affects the other d. they affect each other e. unknown; sociologists do not understand how culture and social structure work together
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