The tendency for persons to marry people located physically near them (same neighborhood, school, workplace, or city) is called:
A. propinquity.
B. aversive assortative mating.
C. heterogamy.
D. hypergamy.
Answer: A
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The notion that sports is a means of upward social mobility for large numbers of the lower classes is
a. factually supported by the research. b. a myth. c. frequently found to be true. d. a source of controversy in sociology.
Cross-sex friendships:
a) have been common throughout history. b) are always easy to maintain. c) never work out well. d) are less common than in your parents' generation. e) can provide valuable insights into how the other sex thinks, feels, and behaves.
Proponents of bilingual education argue that it:
a. maintains cultural boundaries that are important to social order. b. identifies the immigrant and foreign national children to authorities. c. eases the transition of non-English-speaking children into the all-English mainstream. d. helps identify immigrants with better aptitude. e. insures people get jobs after school.
Significant others is
A. George Herbert Mead's term for the sum total of a person's conscious perception of his or her identity as distinct from others. B. George Herbert Mead's term for altering the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences. C. George Herbert Mead's term for those individuals who are most important in the development of the self. D. Charles Horton Cooley's term for a child's awareness of the attitudes, viewpoints, and expectations of society as a whole.