The ratio of girls to boys under age 6 in India suggests that:
a. 600,000 girls are lost to sex-selective abortion or infanticide each year.
b. there is a strong preference for girls in India.
c. there is an environmental problem that is affecting the rate of female births.
d. nature is taking its course.
a
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With respect to parenting style, authoritarian personality theory reports __________
A) a correlation between early childhood experiences and the development of a prejudiced personality B) that when children with domineering parents become adults, they demonstrate hatred toward their family C) that children with domineering parents may direct their hostility against a powerful group D) no correlation between early childhood experiences and the development of prejudice
Older people are more likely to have __________ diseases
a. acute b. epidemic c. chronic d. infectious
Culture includes a. norms
b. groups. c. institutions. d. roles.
Which sociologist suggested that during the second stage of development, children become capable of assuming the perspective of another and are thereby able to respond from that imagined viewpoint?
A. William F. Ogburn B. Erving Goffman C. George Herbert Mead D. Alvin Gouldner