A pathway along an age-differentiated, socially-created sequence of transitions is referred to as:
a. a life course
b. a life cycle
c. an age grade
d. a rite of passage
A
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Testing problem-solving and verbal abilities by using measures specifically designed to assess these components is characteristic of which approach?
a. Piaget's cognitive developmental approach b. the cognitive structural approach c. the psychometric approach d. the information-processing approach
_____________ refers to the belief that there are innate differences between women and men and that these differences result in the superiority of one group and the inferiority of the other
a. Feminism b. Sexism c. Sex segregation d. Gender stratification
The "four-year itch" identified by Fisher is:
a. the 4th year of marriage, when husbands are most likely to cheat b. the time when both spouses consider experimenting with others c. the time when wives evaluate/decide if they want to have a second child d. the term for when parents of one child are most likely to divorce
Within a bureaucracy, the ability to make decisions often becomes concentrated in the hands of a few powerful individuals. Michels' term for this is ______.
A. the iron law of oligarchy B. the iron cage of bureaucracy C. the iron fist of autocracy D. the iron lung of pandemics