A young woman who believes she is overweight begins to starve herself with the hope of becoming more attractive. A sociologist would explain the woman’s behavior in terms of ______.
A. a personality defect or mental problem
B. her lack of will power or self-esteem
C. society’s valuation of thinness in women
D. society’s valuation of abnormal behavior
C. society’s valuation of thinness in women
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Companies are engaged in practices of __________ because they have to in order to remain competitive in the __________ that characterizes our global capitalist economy.
A) sustainability; political partisanship B) planned obsolescence; treadmill of production C) self-regulation; profit system D) environmental justice; environmental degradation
In Korea young children of both sexes bathe with their mothers and other women in public. This expectation for behavior in the context of a bathhouse is a
a. belief. b. value. c. norm. d. way of life.
Environmental classism refers to the fact that the poor are more likely to __________
A) be subject to polluted environments where they live B) receive increased wages for their work C) live in cleaner neighborhoods with less pollution D) have access to jobs with low hazards
The most difficult transition in married life is typically ________
a. the birth of a first child. b. the death of a spouse. c. the last child leaving home. d. retirement.