Which of the following best describes sociology?
A. the study of individual contributions to society
B. a scientific study that is interested in society, in particular social relationships.
C. the study of change within past civilization.
D. a scientific study of the human mind, especially behavior that affects the mind.
Answer: B
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The neighborhood health care centers, begun as part of the War on Poverty programs,
a. received additional funding from President Richard Nixon because he had a deep commitment to extending public health programs. b. demonstrated that neighborhood-run medical care centers worked. c. developed conflicts between the medical school physicians at the centers and the community residents regarding who should run the centers. d. b and c above.
Parents who have high expectations and are warm and receptive are known as ________ and their children are likely
a) authoritative; well-behaved and successful. b) authoritarian; well-behaved and successful. c) authoritarian; impulsive and trustful. d) authoritative; fearful and withdrawn.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Single parents are more likely to abuse children than are two-parent families, but overall there are no significant differences by race, ethnicity, or social class. 2. Child abuse has serious short-term effects, but research suggests that it has only minimal long-term effects. 3. Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, or fraud or deception, or the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability, or of the giving or receiving of payments to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. 4. Sex trafficking results from poverty, economic inequality, patriarchy, and globalization. 5. Elder abuse is the abuse of an elderly person that can include physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial or material exploitation, and neglect.
Countries with democratic socialism provide their citizens with.