What concept refers to a person moving from one occupation to another that provides about the same level of rewards?
a. upward social mobility
b. downward social mobility
c. horizontal social mobility
d. This is not social mobility at all.
Answer: c. horizontal social mobility
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Sarah J. McCarthy is quoted as saying that the U.S. schools socialize students to become rational and skeptical individuals, capable of independent thought, who can disobey or disagree at the critical moment
a. true b. false
Since 1979, women have outnumbered men in U.S. colleges and universities. Despite this remarkable change, women still
a. usually fail to graduate. b. are more inclined to major in math, science, or engineering. c. primarily attend college in order to meet a successful husband. d. tend to concentrate in many traditionally feminine majors.
The likelihood of divorce is greater for couples who:
a. marry young. b. have two incomes. c. do not have children. d. are White.
Society-induced conditions that harm any segment of the population, and acts and conditions that violate the norms and values found in society, define __________
A) social problems B) self-actualization C) cultural deprivation D) the sociological imagination