Homogamy in US Marriage
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The family is a social institution that is found...
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every society
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what is the term sociologist use for a group containing parents, children, and other kin?
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nuclear
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sociologist claim that marriage in the US follows the principle of homogamy, which means that partners are
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people who are socially alike in terns of class, age, and race
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which theoretical approach helps us see that people select partners who have about the same to offer as they do?
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social- exchange approach
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In the US, many Latino families are characterized by
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a strong extended kinship, parents exerting a great deal of control over their children's courtship, and traditional gender roles
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what term did Emilie Durkheim use to describe the everyday aspects
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profane
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Maz Weber's famous thesis states that particular religious ideas set in motion a wave of change that resulted in
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the industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism
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which type of religious organization is more integrated into the larger society
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church
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About what share of the US population claims to identify with a religious tradition
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84
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the term secularization refers to which of the following
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a decline in the importance of religion and the sacred
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in the US and in other countries, laws requiring all children to attend school were enacted following
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the industrial revolution
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Japan differs from the Us in that attending college there depends more on
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scores on achievement tests
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according to the structural-functional approach, schooling carries out the task of
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linking together a diverse population with common morns and values, creating new elements of culture, and socializing young people
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social-conflict analysis highlight how education
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reflects and reinforces social inequality
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the importance of community colleges to US higher education is reflected in the fact that they
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greatly expand the opportunity to attend college, enroll more than 40 percent of US college students, and enroll almost half of all African American and Hispanic college students
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health is a social issue because
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cultural patterns define what people view as healthy, social inequality affects peoples health, and societies technology affects peoples health
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in the very poorest nations of the world today, a majority of people die before reaching
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their teens
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greatest cause of death among young people in US
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accidents
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in the US, greatest preventable cause of death
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cigarette smoking
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what share of US adults are overweight
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2/3
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the economy is the social institution that guides
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the production of goods and services, distribution of goods and services, and consumption of goods and services
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building houses and making care are examples of production in which economic sector
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secondary sector
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3 factors that is a result of the globalization of the economy
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certain areas of the world specialize in one sector of economic activity, industrial jobs in US are being lost to other countries, and more and more products pass through several nations before reaching the consumer
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socialist economies differ from capitalist economies by
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creating more economic equality
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the largest 2,568 corporations, each with assets exceeding 2.5 billion dollars, represent about what share of all corporate assets in the US
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80 percent
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modern societies, including the US, rely mostly on which type of authority
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rational-legal authority
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in which type of political system does power reside in the hands of the people as a whole
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democracy
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in the 2008 US presidential election, about what share of registered voters actually cast a vote
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63 percent
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the Marxist political-economy model suggest that
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an antidemocratic bias is built into the capitalist system
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what war resulted in the highest loos of life to people in US
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civil war
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Sociologist use the term modernity to refer to social patterns that emerged
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after the industrial revolution
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common causes of social change
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invention of things ideas, and social patterns, diffusion from one culture system to another, and discovery of existing things
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Karl Marx highlighted the importance of which of the following factors in the process of social change
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social conflict
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Max Weber's Analysis of the rise of rational, modern society highlighted the importance of which of the following factors in the process of social change
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ideas
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which term did Ferdinand Tonnies use to describe a modern society
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Gesellschaft
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according to Emilie Durkheim. modern societies have
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an increasing division of labor
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the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is one recent case of
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technological disaster
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modernity as a mass society
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kinship ties have become weaker, bureaucracy, including government, has expanded in size, and people experience greater moral uncertainty about how to live
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sociologist who describe modernity in terns of class-society theory focus on what
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the rise of capitalism
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David Riesman described the other-directed social character typical of modern people as
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eagerness to follow the latest fashions and fads
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which social institution is widely considered to have the greatest effect on society as a whole
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the economy
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the social thinker whose ideas most supported the operation of the free-market economy
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adam smith
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an example of a European country with a mostly private economy and extensive social welfare
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Sweden
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US population showing the greatest labor-force increase in percentage
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Hispanic women
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which nations in the world today claim to be democratic
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high income
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what is an economic issue
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poverty
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least likely to vote
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hispanic
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the family is a social institution that is found in
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every society
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task of the family according to structural-fuctional approach
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socialization of the young, social placement, regulation of sexual activity
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most difficult transition in married life
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death of a spouse
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regardess of race, families headed by single women are
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at high risk for poverty
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compared to what it was a century ago, the US divorce rate is
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three times higher
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Durkheim pointed to three functions of religion, what are they
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fostering social cohesion, providing social control, providing meaning and purpose
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the priesthood, a specialized occupation in charge of a large religious organization, first developed in which type of society
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horticultural
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factors of divorce
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individualism, romatic love fades, women are less dependent, marriage is stressful, acceptable, easy
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in US there is ___ of teachers
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shortage
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highest dropout rate
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hispanics
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latent function of schooling
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child care
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chrond illness
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cancer
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STDs infects 24 million teens and adults
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herpes
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common way US pays for medical bills
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private insurance
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what type of learning does US favor
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practice - prepares for the future
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social change is almost always
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controversal
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common causes of social change
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discovery of existing things, invention of new things, and diffusion from one culture to another
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Karl Marx highlighted what is social change
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social conflict
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Durkheim's greatest concern about modern society's focused on
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increasing productive specilzation
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class-society theory of modernity is based on who
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Karl Marx
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sociologist explain that the consequences of social change are
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