Assume you were visiting a society in which people traced family ties only through women. This society would correctly be called

a. patrilocal.
b. matrilineal.
c. matrilocal.
d. polygynous.


b

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The career development center at a local university wants to know what will happen to the 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2025 classes of gerontology graduates during the decade following their graduation. Which research design will the center most likely use?

a. cross-sequential b. longitudinal c. time-lag d. longitudinal-sequential

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The most rapidly-growing family form in the U.S. is ____

a. single parent families b. male-headed households c. same-sex couples and their children d. blended families e. adopted children

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Max Weber considered capitalism to be a nonrational system, because he thought it was inefficient.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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The influence of social expectations is so powerful that it can lead to collective delusions in which people attempt to fit evidence into their cultural worldview.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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