Most colonial households were made up of:
A. fictive kin
B. extended families
C. companionate marriages
D. nuclear families
Answer: D. nuclear families
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a. ethnicity b. nationality c. race d. subculture
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A) autocratic rule B) free market competition C) centralized government D) state ownership of corporations
The auto theft rate (number of auto thefts known to the police per 100,000 population), unemployment rate, and percent of the population consisting of adolescent and young adult males (ages 12 - 25) are presented below for a sample of twenty cities
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For which of the following reasons do sociologists and other social scientists abide by codes of ethics?
a. Government regulations require all sociologists to abide by these standards. b. Given the nature of their research, social scientists must commit to do no harm to those they study. c. Codes of ethics affect the validity of a project's findings. d. Scientistshave always readily endorsed the usefulness of such codes in keeping other scientists in check.