Busing has been employed in the attempt to achieve school desegregation. One study of busing describes a community that actively resists change. This community is called a __________
a. backlash tract
b. reactionary neighborhood
c. resistance bastion
d. defended neighborhood
e. neighborhood on the offense
d
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On average, men
(a) would rather remain single. (b) gravitate towards marriage. (c) have to be "trapped" into marriage. (d) are seldom ever ready for marriage.
Sarah comes from a lower-middle-class family. Her parents were teachers and relied on both their incomes to run their household. Sarah got into medical school on a scholarship and is now a doctor in a well-reputed hospital. Sarah's movement to the upper-middle class is an example of _____.
A. intergenerational mobility B. downward mobility C. feminization of poverty D. intragenerational mobility E. relative poverty
The increasing number of LGBTQ families in the United States indicated that the family landscape is changing. What do sociologists propose as an explanation for this and other shifts?
a. Increasing population increases the amount of variability in families. b. Each generation is shifting further away from traditional family values. c. Families are social constructs developed by cultural, economic, political, and historical contexts. d. Biology is the sole influence on families.
CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY. The debt crisis in the Third World resulted from:
a. US government's anti-inflationary policies in the 1980 b. Contraction of credit and rising interest rates c. inflationary pressures from rise in oil prices d. US Federal Reserve Board policy