What are three primary reasons for the significantly higher rates of widowhood among women than men?
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Mortality rates among females are lower than for males; (2) Wives are typically a few years younger than their husbands; (3) Widowed women are less likely to remarry than are widowed men.
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__________ Law that is imposed on society from above by civil authority
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following terms is used by Daniel Bell to refer to a society that emphasizes theoretical knowledge as the axis around which new technology, economic growth, and stratification will be organized?
a. global society b. postindustrial society c. socialist society d. urban-industrial society
Explain emergent norm theory and illustrate it with an example of a situation where emergent norms may arise. Include at least one critique of emergent norm theory.
What will be an ideal response?
During the Jim Crow era, Whites and Blacks were extremely segregated. While the free Black electorate threatened the political and economic dominance of elite White society, Whites still wanted--and needed--Black labor. Which theory best explains segregation under these conditions?
A. the Blauner hypothesis B. the Noel hypothesis C. the culture of poverty theory D. intersectionality theory E. Marxist theory