Julie is a high school teacher. On the same day she is due to give her students their final exam, her two children become sick. She doesn't know if she should stay home with her children or leave them with a sitter so she can administer the exam. Julie is experiencing _______________________.

a. role stress
b. role conflict
c. status overload
d. status stress


b. role conflict

Sociology

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Which of the following statements regarding the federal bureaucracy is true?

a. Elected officials are increasingly making more important decisions about public policy than the workers in the federal bureaucracy. b. The federal bureaucracy shrank during the Great Depression. c. The federal bureaucracy employs fewer than 1 million people. d. Neither Republican nor Democratic administrations have been able to establish control over the federal bureaucracy.

Sociology

__________suggest that profits, not health care, drive the US health care system

Fill in the blanks with correct word

Sociology

Men who have lost control of their lives due to poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, or alcoholism are

a) more likely to become abusive husbands. b) less likely to become abusive husbands. c) just as abusive as men who have control over their lives. d) usually too depressed about life to act in a violent way.

Sociology

Political criminal offenders:

a. are more likely to come from lower class backgrounds b. are more likely to come from middle class backgrounds c. view themselves as criminals d. are no different from conventional offenders

Sociology