Which of these statements about social change is true?
A. Social change is not often frightening.
B. People who resist social change are doing so for the good of society as whole.
C. Social change is always good.
D. Some people have a vested interest in resisting social change.
Answer: D
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a. that women be modest and protected when around male strangers. b. that women have no decision-making power. c. that most marriages be arranged. d. that it is always mandatory that women wear the burka at all times.
The 2003 Supreme Court decision, Lawrence et al. v. Texas, declared that a Texas statute violated the U.S. Constitution. The Texas statute had made it a crime for
a. women to refuse sex to their husbands. b. a person 21 years or older to marry a person 17 years or younger. c. two persons of different races to marry. d. two persons of the same sex to engage in an intimate sexual relationship.
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a. descriptive statistics b. inferential statistics c. analytical statistics d. reductionist statistics
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a. has no known cure. b. could easily be treated with 25 cents worth of antibiotics. c. is misdiagnosed by most rural health care workers. d. is rarely treated because the medications are so extremely expensive. e. has been eliminated.