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Rationality involves people sharing the same values and performing the same tasks.

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False

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A voluntary association is typically a nonprofit organization formed to pursue some common interest.

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True

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Accommodation is a state of balance between cooperation and conflict.

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True

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Role conflict occurs when fulfilling the role of expectations of one status makes it difficult to fulfill the role expectations of another status.

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True

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Competition occurs when two or more people or groups work together to achieve a goal that will benefit more than one person.

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False

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In a horticultural society animals are used to pull plows to till the fields.

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False

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The in-group represents people that interact with one another regularly on the Internet.

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False

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In a preindustrial society much of the economy is involved in providing information and services.

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False

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The socially determined behaviors expected of a person performing a role are called role performances.

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False

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Ascribed statuses are not based on an individual's abilities, efforts, or accomplishments.

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True

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Heredity characteristics include body build, hair type, eye color, and skin pigmentation.

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True

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Aptitude is the capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge.

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True

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Instinct is a changing, biologically inherited behavior pattern.

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False

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Our personalities are not influenced by whether or not we have brothers, sisters, both, or neither.

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False

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Cultural environments determine the basic types of personalities that will be found in society.

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True

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Subcultural differences, i.e. the type of neighborhood in which an individual is raised, also affect personality.

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True

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Sociologists found that the effects of institutionalization on infants, i.e. lack of a caring environment, will result in slower development of their mental, physical, and emotional skills.

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True

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Socialization is the interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of a society.

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True

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Tabula Rasa theory believes that individuals are born with some personality.

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False

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Charles Horton Cooley devised the Tabula Rasa theory.

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False

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The looking-glass self refers to the non-active process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others.

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False

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Role-taking forms the basis of the socialization process by allowing us to anticipate what others expect of us, thus learning to see ourselves through the eyes of others.

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True

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Significant others are individuals that are not of any significance to help form our socialization.

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False

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As we grow older, significant others become more important.

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False

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In the United States, the primary agents of socialization include the family, the peer group, the school, and the mass media.

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True

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The family is the least important agent of socialization in almost every society.

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False

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Peer group socialization is the same as family socialization.

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False

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Mass media is a form of socialization.

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True

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Total institutions are primarily concerned with resocializing their members to help them learn new values and norms.

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True

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Resocialization is directed toward changing an individual's personality and social behavior.

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True

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Adolescence is universal.

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False

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Puberty is generally considered to run from the ages of 12 to 19.

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False

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Education in the United States is mandatory up to age 16.

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True

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There are generally eight characteristics that apply to all adolescents.

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False

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Puberty is one aspect of adolescence that is found in every society.

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True

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Courtship was seen as an event that eventually would lead to marriage.

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True

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The main purpose of dating is entertainment.

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True

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The dating system is not flexible as opposed to the courtship system that existed prior to dating.

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False

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Willard Waller, from his early study at Penn State, found that dating was a form of entertainment and helped one select a mate.

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False

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This study also found that status attainment and excitement were not at the center of the dating process.

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False

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Homogamy is the tendency of of individuals to marry people who have social characteristics similar to their own.

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True

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In traditional dating patterns, dating behavior usually followed a ritual pattern that all understood.

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True

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A survey completed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that by 1995 the rate of sexual activity had increased 50 percent based on the same ages from data used in 1970.

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True

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Social and economic factors have been found not to influence early sexual activity as it was once thought.

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False

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Consequences of early sexual activity are often negative.

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True

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Hallucinogens are the most widely used illegal drugs among high school seniors based on a survey between 1990 and 2001.

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False

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The social problems of teenage drug and alcohol abuse are contributing factors to the rate of suicide among young people in the United States.

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True

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Emile Durkheim's study revealed that low levels of social integration can lead to increased rates of suicide because group members place the needs of the group above their own personal needs.

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False

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Suicide rates increase during periods of social disorganization because the norms that govern behavior weaken or become less clear.

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True

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Suicide cuts across all social categories, including sex, economic levels, race, religion, and nationalities.

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True

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