Some analysts suggest that inner-city riots have frequently occurred when poor people realize that their chances of climbing out of poverty are unlikely because of the structure of our social system. Their frustration is based on their perception that they are living in a(n)
A. closed stratification system.
B. open stratification system.
C. fractured class system.
D. egalitarian class system.
Answer: A
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The tensions that occur either within the family (for example, violence or alcoholism) or outside the family (such as coping with a hurricane or other natural disaster) that test a family's emotional resources are called:
a) family crisis. b) family tension. c) open tension. d) learned helplessness. e) family stress.
Five years after an elderly parent's death, ________ of adult children still cry when thinking about them
A) 10% B) 25% C) 42% D) 63%
The term for limiting the number of children in a family through the use of birth control is
A. abstinence. B. pregnancy prevention. C. family designing. D. family planning.
In comparison to other countries,
a. people in the United States are more likely to believe that marriage is outdated. b. a. people in the United States are less likely to believe that marriage is outdated c. Russians are the most likely to believe that marriage is outdated d. Western Europeans are the least likely to believe that marriage is outdated.