Joe was a sociologist who studied mental illness in a poor urban neighborhood whose residents have a high rate of mental illness

He discovered that many persons moving into the neighborhood had clear symptoms of mental illness, and that normal residents, when they could, moved out to a better neighborhood. His study would support the __________ explanation of the relations between class and mental illness.

a) social causation
b) organic
c) social drift
d) biomedical


c) social drift

Sociology

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Underemployment refers to working ________

a. voluntarily on a part-time basis b. voluntarily on a permanent basis c. at a job for which one is overqualified d. at a job for which one is underqualified

Sociology

The idea of a selection effect addresses which of the following questions?

a) Are arranged marriages better than free-choice ones? b) What factors do people consider when choosing mates? c) Does marriage lead to happiness? d) When do people normally choose to get married?

Sociology

Nearly __________ percent of the world's population lives on less than two dollars a day

(a) Twenty (b) Thirty (c) Forty (d) Fifty

Sociology

_____________ is/are (an) attitude(s) and behavioral expectations that go along with the biological aspects of being male or female

A. Sex B. Sex roles C. Gender D. Gender roles

Sociology