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with respect to war the text explains that

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there is nothing in our human biology that makes it natural to go to war

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which of the following categories of the us population is least likely to vote in national elections

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hispanic people

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people who attract followers including gandhi and mlk display

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charismatic authority

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modernization theorist see large corporations as

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unleashing the productive power of capitalism to speed development in poor nations

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turning metal into automobiles is work that falls within the

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secondary sector

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which of the following countries best exemplifies a system of state capitalism

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japan

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contrasted to socialist economic systems capitalist economic systems are typically

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more productive

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a pluralist approach to the us political system suggests that

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power is widely dispersed throughout society

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computers are having which of the following effects on the work place

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all of these responses are correct

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the concept of global economy refers to

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economic activity that moves across national boarders

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refers to the use of violence by government often against thier own people

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state terrorism

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the social thinker whos idea supported the operation of a free market economy most was

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adam smith

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a power elite model if the us political system suggest that

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power is concentrated in the hands of a few

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in the us yesterday's family farms have given way to

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corporate agribusiness

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which social institution do most sociologist claim has the greatest effect on society as a whole

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the economy

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in general terrorism is the strategy favored by

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A a weak organization aginst a stronger foe

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which of the following statements about political parties. in the us is true

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C national political power tends to swing from one party to another over time

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industrialization decreases the importance of which type of authority

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A traditional authority

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as a social institution the economy

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all of these responses are correct

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which of the following reasons might you argue that the us is not truly democratic

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all of these responses are correct

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three technological revolutions that transformed all of social life

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immigration revolution

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concept that refers to the formal organization that directs the political life of a society

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government

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in recent decades union membership

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has declined in the us and other high income nations

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which war was the deadliest in terms of us lives lost

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civil war

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how does income affect the likelihood of voting in the us

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most high income people vote most low income dont

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capitalist societies base thier claim to democracy on

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people having personal liberty

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the economy first became a distinct social institution during which historical stage of technological development

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agrarian society

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what weber called the routinization of charisma involves charismatic authority

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transforming into some combination of traditional authority and rational legal authority

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refers to a political and economic system that combines a mostly market based economy with extensive social welfare program

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welfare capitalism

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which of the following concepts refers to a political system in which a single family rules from generation to generation

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monarchy

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in traditional regions of many lower income countries such as sir Lanka marriage

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has little to do with romantic love

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sociological analysis of religion in concerned with

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understanding patterns of religious activity and their effect on society

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first to permit legal same sex partnerships with many benefits of marriage

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denmark

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looking for evidence about how much the traditional family is eroding you might point to the fact

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all of these responses are correct

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in his analysis of protestantism and the rise of capitalism max weber stated that it

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stressed duty and hard work boosting economic production and fostering the rise of capitalism

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assume you were visiting a society which people traced family ties only through woman this society is

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matrilineal

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patterns that describe many latino family's include

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all of these responses are correct

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supporters of liberation theology hope this social movement will achieve which of the following

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reducing social inquality and especially poverty

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in the United States family violence is

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A serious often criminal problem

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which region of the world would you travel to if you wanted to visit many countries where the law permits polygamy

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Africa

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guided by symbolic interaction approach sociologist examine

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all of these responses are correct

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which of the following are typically traits of marriage

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all of these responses are correct

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max weber carried out historical analysis of the rise of the industrial revolution

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religious values and beliefs especially those associated with calvinism

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following structural functional theory the family

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is important enough to be called the backbone of society

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The claim that the United States is a posted nomination society is based on a movement

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supporting spiritualism but away from formal denominations

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which of the following religious organizations begin is as a cult

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all of these responses are correct

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The concept Endogamy a refers to marriage between

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people of the same social category

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what do the sacred text of Christianity Judaism and Islam have in common

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support for patriarchy

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almost all adults who abuse children typically have what in common

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they were abuse themselves as children

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A system of marriage that you nines one woman with two or more men is called

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polyandry

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an analysis of how religion supports the interest of a societies elites would fall under which of the following theoretical approaches

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social conflict approach

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the concept patrilocality refers to

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hey residential pattern by which a married couple lives near the husbands family

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durkheim pointed 23 functions of religion for society which of the following is not one of them

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fostering social conflict

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Faith is a way of knowing based on what

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conviction or believe in things unseen

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all throughout the south the largest number of Protestants are of which denomination

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baptist

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and the United States a slight majority of adults claim to be what

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protestant

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which of the following are reasons for the rise and divorce rates in the United States

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all of these responses are correct

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A family that includes parents children and other kin is called what

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and extended family

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which of the following concepts refers to a religious organization that is largely outside is the site is cultural traditions

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cult

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most people in United States who divorce

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remarry within five years

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Scientific medicine typically develops in

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industrial societies

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in the United States and important medical issue

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shortage of nurses

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which of the following is a latent function of schooling

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providing childcare

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The concept of euthanasia refers to what

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assisting in the death of a person suffering from a terminal illness

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which sexually-transmitted disease and effects 25 million US adults

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genital herpes

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assume that you support the school choice movement what are you likely to say is the reason the US public schools perform poorly

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schools have no competition

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for the United States as a whole about what percent of people between ages 16 and 24 drop out before completing high school

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7%

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The rise of scientific medicine in the United States began about when

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1847 with the founding of the American Medical Association

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according to the World Health Organization about how many of the worlds people suffer from a serious illness caused by poverty

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1 billion

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during the early decades of the industrial revolution

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all of these responses are correct

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getting into college in Japan compared to the United States is more a matter of what

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performance on achievement tests

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The concept socialized medicine refers to which of the following

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A medical system mostly owned and operated by the government

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approximately what percentage of US adults is overweight

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64%

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in the world as a whole about what share of children reach the secondary grades in school

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two thirds

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which of the following world regions is expecting. The most of severe epidemic of aids

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sub-Saharan Africa

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of all high income nations which country relies the most on a direct free market system to pay for medical treatment

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United States

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to improve US cooling a nation at risk recommended what

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all of these responses are correct

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The greatest cause of death among young people in the United States today is caused by which of the following

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accidents

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Community colleges are in important part of higher education in the United States because they

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all of these responses are correct

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and the United States the focus of education has always been

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what is particle and job-related

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which of the following categories of the US population has the highest dropout rate

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Hispanics

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which of the following diseases is the biggest killer in today's high income nations

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heart disease

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if you were to visit a low income nations to study it's high death rates what would you find to be the most common cause of death

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infectious disease

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today more than a century after the onset of the Industrial Revolution there has been an increase in the share of deaths caused by which of the following

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chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer

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The topic of psychosomatic disorders is of greatest interest to sociologist guided by which theoretical approach

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The symbolic interaction approach

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and his structural functional analysis Talcott Parsons claimed that society response to illness bye

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using the sick role to relieve Sick people of many daily responsibilities

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which of the following statements applies to the symbolic interaction approach to schooling

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if teachers think some category of students are superior though same students may end up doing superior your work

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Society shapes human health because

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all of these responses are correct

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One indication that there's a problem upgrade and inflation is the fact that almost half of all groups given to today's high school students are

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a

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The world's poorest nations today life expectancy is as low as about

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50 years

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which of the following statements correctly describes society is at the post industrial level of technological development

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both a and B are true

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which of the following for statements about migration is not true

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migration has little or no effect on population size

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as a rich nation that values consumption in convenience the United States can be described as what

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a disposable society

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Wenden the worlds population reach about 1 billion

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1800

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United States is a high income country therefore we would expect population increase to result from which of the following

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both immigration and natural increase

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demographic is defined as the study of

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human population

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which of the following concepts refers to the number of Live births in a given year for every thousand people in a population

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crude birth rate

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that environmental racism thesis falls within which theoretical approach

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The social conflict approach

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about how long to go in history did the first cities emerge

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10,000 years ago

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currently about how much of the global population increase is taking place in low income nations

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98%

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which of the following concepts refers to the study of the interaction of living organisms in the natural environment

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ecology

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urban decentralization has led to what

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all of these responses are correct

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The concept environmental deficit refers to what

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long-term harm to the environment caused by a short sighted focus on material affluence

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The basic idea behind demographic transition theory is

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population patterns reflect a society level of technological developments

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which of the following nations would you expect to be most concerned about declining population

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I high income countries such as Japan

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about when did urban centralization the industrial metropolis reach its peak in the United States

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1950

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in medieval cities of Europe what was founded as the city center

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The cathedral

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with the industrial revolution how did the physical design of cities change

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all of these responses are correct

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which of the following concepts used by Emile Durkheim's means about the same thing as Tony's concept Gesselshaft

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organic solidarity

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if you were to compare Sunbelt cities such as Houston to Snowbell cities such as Detroit what differences would you find

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sunbelt cities Jenna really have larger populations and are larger and physical size

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which of the following is evidence of the shortage of freshwater now found around the world

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all of these responses are correct

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mounting evidence suggests that the average temperature of the planet is

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rising

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in the preindustrial stage of technological development population

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increases very slowly with a high birth rate offset by high death rate

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throughout most of human history families had many children because

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all of these responses are correct

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in the United States the birth rate is currently

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at the replacement level

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which of the following concepts refers to the maximum possible childbearing for women

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fecundity

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The Industrial Revolution influenced urbanization in many ways including where cities were cited if you were to look back in history you would find that almost every US city was founded where

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on a waterway

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according to Emile Durkheim without traditional world societies were built on modern urban societies were held together bye

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likeness and difference

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into thousand 13 the world is home so about how many people

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7 billion

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looking at countries around the world what is the relationship between average income level and rate of population increase

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The lower the average income the greater the population increase

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sociologist explained that the consequences of social change is

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usually both positive and negative

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which of the following is the best example of an issue that defines a new social movement

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Mobile warming

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individuals experience modern mass Sideys in terms of what

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pronounced moral relativism

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Herbert Marcuse challenge Max Weber but claiming that modern societies are

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The irrational because they failed to meet most people's needs

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Ferdinand Tony's describe modernity as the loss of

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gemeninschaft

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social movements are defined as what

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organize activity that encourages or discourages social change

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The concept of relative deprivation based on the idea that

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people evaluate themselves by making specific comparisons

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if you're following the class society approach which factor would you focus on as shaping a modern society the most

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capitalism

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demographic change in the United States over the course of the last century includes a trend towards what

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all of these responses are correct

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The assumption that the people who participate in the occupy Wall Street demonstration feel that they lacked sufficient income and job prospects offers support for which of the following theories explaining social movements

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deprivation theory

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A criticism of Tony's thinking about modernity is that he

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overlook the fact that strong social ties still exist in modern society

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in what way do new social movements differ from those in the past

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all of these responses are correct

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Emile Durkheim claimed that the defining trait of modernity was what

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AN increasing division of labor

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A riot differs from a mob in that the riot

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typically has little focus or clear goal

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collective behavior involves actions that often

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all of these responses are correct

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comparing various social changes would correctly conclude that

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some changes matter more than others

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Durkheim's greatest concern about modern societies was focused on what

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a rise of anomie

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The stage of a social movement call bureaucratization refers to what

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developing a capable staff to keep the movement operating

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moving on has always been an important part of the experience of the United States society remembering the map in the chopper in which part of the country are there a larger number of households that stay put where the same people have lived for 30 years or more

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The great plains

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David Riseman describe other directed social character as which of the following

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openness to the latest fashions and fads

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that you Normas oil spill by the tinker Exxon in 1989 is an example of which of the following types of disasters

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technological disaster

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Hurricane Irene which devastated parts of new England into thousand 11 as best thought of as an example of which of the types of disasters

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natural disaster

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One stage in the life of a social event is called coalescence the states refers to which of the following

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The movement defining itself in going public

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Karl Marx understood modernity in terms of which of the following

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The rise of the capitalist economy system

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read the four statements below only one is correct which is it

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members of both traditional and modern society is conform but two different degrees for different reasons

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because of their intense emotion mobs can

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be violent and destructive

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The atomic tests near you trick island in 1954 were a disaster for the 159 people who live their Kia Erickson explain this disaster as

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never really had an ending

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Peter Burger describes modernization and terms of several important changes read the responses below and select the one that is not a trait that burger links to modernity

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The decline of large cities

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what did Herbert Marcuse have to say about science

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Science causes as many problems as it solves

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read the following statements about modern the side he Wednesday but would not be likely to be made by someone who thinks we live in a mass society which statement is it

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there are more poor people of been in the past

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