According to sociologist Robert Merton's _____ theory, people feel tension when they are exposed to cultural goals that they are unable to obtain because they do not have access to culturally approved means of achieving those goals
a. opportunity b. conflict
c. developmental d. strain
d
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A major issue regarding end-of-life decisions concerns whether the person is cognitively or legally able to make them
In this regard, there are two types of determination: the capacity to make decisions and, which is determined by a court. a. a competency decision b. the person's physical state c. the person's emotional well-being d. the person's cognitive functioning
Musgrove (1965) pointed out that adolescence today is when youth experience __________
a. social "limbo" b. lack of opportunities to acquire the basic skills required in adult life c. both a and b d. difficulty in growing up in a society that fears youths
According to Kim, Asians were chosen over African American babies because ______.
a. the adoption process in Korea was less costly, even considering travel to Korea b. Asians were perceived as compatible to whites, especially within a framework of viewing Asians as “Honorary Whites” c. parents thought that they would be making more of a positive difference in the lives of the Asian children they would be adopting, since they viewed the Asian countries from which they were adopting as oppressive d. most of the adoptive parents had connections to Asian culture through family, kin, and/or culture
Another name for the research hypothesis is the
A) null hypothesis. B) statistical hypothesis. C) sampling hypothesis. D) alternative hypothesis.