If you were interested in studying the relationship between date and acquaintance rape victims and the characteristics of the rapist, your first step would be to
A. review the literature on date and acquaintance rape.
B. define the problem.
C. create a hypothesis.
D. choose a research design
B. define the problem.
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A sociologist decides to study how students go about their daily routines and how they learn what they are supposed to do. For example, how do students know to go to class when the bell rings and why do students call teachers by their last names? A sociologist from which of the following backgrounds would be interested in this study?
A. an ethnomethodologist B. a gender scholar C. a functionalist D. a conversational analyst
A time in life when many people most often feel a need to develop a deeper spirituality is when the person
a. reaches the age of about 18 to 20 b. passes the age of about 55 c. is experiencing a personal crisis d. is involved in an event such as a marriage or move to a new community
What is the legal status of living together? a. After seven years, it results in a common-law marriage in all states
b. It is still illegal in a few states. c. It is officially illegal in all states, but those laws are rarely enforced. d. It is the same as a domestic partnership in all states.
The systematic, widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants is known as
A. downsizing. B. modernization. C. deindustrialization. D. shrink wrapping.