Which of the following would be an example of anomie?
A. A man loses his job, his fortune, and his family during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
B. An individual takes a shortcut to school and gets lost.
C. A woman wins a lottery and gives a considerable amount of her winnings to several charities that are important to her.
D. All these answers are correct.
A. A man loses his job, his fortune, and his family during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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a. terrorism. b. political assault. c. intimidation d. war.
____________ include patterns of relating and functioning that are transmitted from generation to generation within the family system
a. Normative stressors b. Horizontal stressors c. Vertical stressors d. Non-normative stressors
The long-term effects of premarital preparation programs (PREP, etc.) are:
A) uncertain. B) overwhelmingly positive; most marriages begun this way stay together for many years. C) negligible. D) actually negative; marriages that begin this way are more likely to end in divorce.
While more young people than ever claim no religion, there seems to be a growing interest in
A. friendship. B. near death experiences. C. social constructionism. D. spirituality.