In a caste system, one's place in the stratification system is a(n) _____ status
a. ascribed
b. achieved
c. temporary
d. ambiguous
a
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According to Piaget (1965) and Lever (1976), girls tend to have more ________ orientations to the rules of the game, while boys tend to have ________ orientation to the rules
a. flexible/inflexible b. pragmatic/flexible c. inflexible/pragmatic d. flexible/pragmatic
Which of the following statements is true of education among the Cherokee tribe?
a. Through the nineteenth century, schools run by the tribe were completely financed by the federal government. b. The tribe is opposed to learning the English language. c. By the mid-1800s, literacy for the tribe was still negligible. d. The tribe developed an extensive bilingual school system.
Demographic changes have increased the likelihood of divorce in the United States. An example of this is
A. the aging of the U.S. population, which results in later age at first marriage. B. longer life expectancy, which increases the length of many marriages beyond what they would have been in the past. C. the decreasing number of children, which forces couples to focus more on each other. D. the skewed sex ratio, which gives women many more choices for potential partners.
In the United States over the past half-century, women’s median age at the birth of their first child __________
A) has decreased as teenage pregnancies have increased B) has increased as more women completed higher education and entered the labor force C) has been strictly an individual phenomenon, varying greatly depending on the person D) has been the same among different races and ethnicities