Discuss three recent trends in forming families. Why have these trends emerged?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should choose from: courtship and dating (possibly mentioning hooking up which does not have the expectation of commitment or forming a family), delayed marriage, multigenerational households (grandparents raising children), staying single, cohabitation, biracial marriage, and same-sex marriage. Reasons for these changes can include: increased education, increase in the status of women, changes in society, and acceptance of these practices.
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In a 2003 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the University of Michigan
a. could no longer give minority applicants a numerical bonus as part of the university's point system for admissions. b. could not consider applicants' race in admissions. c. could continue to use rigid quotas to admit specific numbers of people in "protected classes." d. could not consider sex, race, or class in admissions decisions.
Gotham City has a small central business district. Near the central district is an area that contains manufacturing plants. Also near the central district is an area of low-income housing. Upper-class residences are generally farther away from all of these areas, often separated by sectors of offices and shopping radiating outwards. Which of the urban sociology models of city growth and change best fits the description of Gotham City?
A. Concentric zone theory B. Sector theory C. Multiple-nuclei theory D. Peripheral theory E. Minicentertheory
Which of the following statements is accurate regarding Freud's theory of personality?
a. The same sex parent is the most powerful influence on the growing child. b. Childhood conflicts reappear throughout life. c. The individual's major personality traits are formed in conflict. d. All of these.
Before 1880, the destination of most Italian immigrants was:
a. Canada. b. the United States. c. Argentina and Brazil. d. England and France.