Introduction to Sociology MCQ
Introduction to Sociology
1. Of all those living alone, the vast majority are ________.
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Older women
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2. Nationally, _____ are more likely than students of other races to attend multiracial schools.
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Asian American students are math geniuses.
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3. Marxist criminologists advocate _____ in response to crime.
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The overthrow of capitalism.
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4. Magnet schools encourage ________
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Students to specialize in specific areas of study.
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5. Looking all around the world, what we find everywhere is ________
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People create cultural systems
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6. The plow was to the second social revolution as the ________ was to the third social revolution.
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Invention of the steam engine.
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7. The percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested is known as ___________.
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Recidivism.
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8. Arlie hochschild argues that many workers seek refuge from (the) ____________ in the ____________.
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Home; workplace
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9. An act of terrorism can be performed by __________.
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Any entity, whether a state, group, or individual
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10. Learning about ones culture and heritage sets the foundation for a persons ____ identity.
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11. Nearly one in every _____ married women in two-income households earns more than her husband does.
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12. Material culture corresponds to __________ as manifest functions corresponds to latent functions.
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Green Highlight.
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13. Under feudalism, the laborers who were obligated to work for landowners were called __________.
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14. A _____ summarizes the intersection of two or more variables.
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15. An important exception to male domination of the u.s. workplace is that ________
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Women now own more than 8 million entrepreneurial businesses
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16. A third urban revolution is now taking place in ________
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Low-income nations
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17. A prisoner would consider a maximum-security prison ________
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A coercive organization
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18. A norm can best be defined as a(n) __________.
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Basic rule of society
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19. Society influences and molds the behavior of its members through a process known as ________.
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Socialization
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20. When wealthy nations exploit poorer nations this is called __________.|
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Political colonialism.
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21. Today, poor people spend about __________ of their income on food.
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22. The relationship between agency and structure is _____, as ______.
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Reciprocal; they both have an effect on one another
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23. The power elite has also been called the __________.
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Ruling class
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24. The idea of "getting" a joke, according to the text, depends on ________
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Understanding the two realities involved and appreciating their difference.
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25. Research suggests that children raised in households in which parents are homosexual __________.
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Show no differences in eventual adjustments
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26. The concept of "environmental deficit" refers to ________
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A vast urban region containing many cities and suburbs
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27. Our earliest encounter with what is perceived to be normality is, essentially, that of __________.
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Our parents and the like
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28. The best determinant of how an individual measures their quality of life is _______.
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29. The everyday actor uses _____ knowledge whereas the social analyst uses _____ knowledge.
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Knowledge
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30. The eagerness to show wealth by the purchase and visible ownership of goods is called ________.
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Conspicuous consumption.
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31. The deviance implicit in a drone strike is that __________.
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It kills noncombatants such as innocent civilians
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32. In biology-based arguments of gender, a predisposition ________.
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Can be influenced by the social structure
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33. Contrasted with socialist economic systems, capitalist economic systems typically ________
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Generate more economic inequality.
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34. A focus on the least industrialized nations is characteristic of _____ feminism.
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The third wave of
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35. _______________ tend to draw members from all social classes and are more mainstream than sects.
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36. _____ refers to when members of a group ignore anything that goes against the group consensus.
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Groupthink
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37. _____ are people who think of themselves as belonging together and who interact with one another.
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38. The video reports that __________ americans live lonely, dependent lives in nursing homes.
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1.6 million
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39. Women are afftected ______ more than men?
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2.5 times
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40. A(n) ________________ is an informal web site of time-stamped articles written in a journal format.
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41. Charlotte perkins gilman is considered a _____.
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42. The theory that is contrary to disengagement theory is _____ theory.
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43. Knowing your tendency toward ethnocentrism __________.
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May help you avoid it
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44. With citizenship, the united states was to guarantee ________ in the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo.
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Religious freedom
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45. An individual who adopts cultural relativism aims to __________ a cultural practice.
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Understand
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46. According to goffman's scheme, we have _____ where we can have some privacy and let our hair down.
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Back stages
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47. Without language, human culture would ________.
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Be little more advanced than lower primates
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48. While being legally married to cassie, james married lisa, too. james has engaged in ________.
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49. Feminists argue that gender matters because ________
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It structures social relations between people
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50. Even after controlling for ses, african americans have __________ white americans.
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Worse health outcomes than
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51. Ethnicity refers to one's __________, while race refers to one's __________.
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Cultural traits; genetic characteristics
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52. The national children and youth fitness study i and ii revealed that __________________.
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Increase in sport opportunities for girls and boys below the high school level.
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53. Of the following forms of marriage, the rarest is __________.
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Polyandry
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54. Hip-hop music and the dj scene first emerged ________
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In the South Bronx during the 1970s
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55. Graduation ceremonies, weddings, and bar mitzvahs are all examples of _____.
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Rites of passage
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56. Gender-stereotypical behavior is most likely to occur when people believe they are __________.
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Being watched
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57. Conflict theorists depict the state as an instrument of _____.
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Oppression and violence
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58. Compared to other high-income nations, the united states has ________
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More economic inequality
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59. Barbara and her children live in poverty. they represent __________.
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The feminization of poverty
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60. As a result of economic restructuring, average wages have __________ since the 1970s.
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Stagnated
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61. In the ________________ campaign, god sent a hailstorm in order to defeat israels enemies.
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62. The sociological significance of early development of surplus and trade is that they ________.
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Fostered social inequality
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63. The soaring enrollment of women has led to some u.s. colleges to _____.
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Initiate affirmative action for men
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64. Women who are employed full-time today make about _____ of what men employed full-time make.
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79 percent
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65. The idea that society needs to regulate human sexuality is highlighted by ________
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The structural-functional approach.
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66. Since 1789, about _____ men have served in the u.s. senate, compared to _____ women.
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2000; 44.
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67. Research memos are to __________ thinkers as data displays are to __________ thinkers.
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Verbal; visual
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68. Looking ahead twenty years in the united states, we can predict with confidence that ________
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Family life will be diverse.
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69. Elements of the everyday world that are not considered sacred are called _____.
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70. Democracies are typically organized into ______ with clear hierarchies and written laws.
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Bureaucracies
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71. Durkheims _____ is similar to tennies _____.
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Mechanical solidarity; Gesellschaft
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72. During the second phase of the epor model, _________.
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Sexual arousal levels off and remains at an elevated level of excitement
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73. Dominance behavior, such as winning a game, produce higher levels of __________.
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Testosterone
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74. The development of solidarity between ethnic subgroups is called ________.
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Panethnicity
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75. Intentionally creating districts around peoples party identification could improve _____.
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Both A and B
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76. In colonial america, reaching an older age was viewed ________.
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As a significant accomplishment
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77. People with a _____ concept of time tend to regard time as a commodity.
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Monochromic
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78. In general, an important foundation of humor is ________
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Incongruity-differences in meaning
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79. One way we apply the term _________ is to mean that we are uninhibited.
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80. Our sense of familiarity and comfort within our own cultures is known as _____.
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Embodied ethnocentrism.
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81. One way newspapers are staying profitable in the online delivery model is to _____.
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Charge readers for access to stories.
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82. People high in ________ are responsive to others' social and interpersonal cues.
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Emotional intelligence
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83. The term _____ is used to describe the likelihood that female heads of households will be poor.
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"feminization of poverty"
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84. More than ______ people have immigrated to the u.s. between the years 1820 and 2014.
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82 million
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85. Men who are socialized in masculine communities typically __________.
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All of the above
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86. A __________ is the prism through which others view you regardless of your other statuses.
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Master status
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87. In the nature versus nurture debate, sociologists claim that _______
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Nurture is far more important than nature.
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88. A(n) _____ leader increases harmony and minimizes conflict in a group.
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Expressive
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89. Learning more sociology can help you ________
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Assess the opportunities and constraints in our lives
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90. ____________ refers to a social position while ____________ designates socially expected behavior.
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Status role
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91. Georg simmel explained the concept of "critical distance," which refers to being _____.
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Being able to detach from the situation at hand to view things critically
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92. Creating and disseminating ________ is one of the most widespread types of cybercrimes.
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Computer viruses
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93. Compared with nuclear families, extended families typically _____.
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Include grandparents
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94. An information systems _____ is the possibility that the system will be harmed by a threat.
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Vuknerability
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95. According to the interactionist's perspective, a group that functions without conflict is ________.
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Static and apathetic
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96. A(n) ______ often uses prewritten hacking and cracking programs.
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Script kiddie
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97. Free computer games and free screen saver programs are typical carriers of _______.
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Trojan Horses
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98. Elsa is having an orgasm. she is in the _________ stage of the erotic stimulus pathway theory.
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Surrender
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99. Badges, cards, smart cards, and keys are examples of _____ objects.
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Possessed
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100. Between _____ of all births occur to uncoupled, single mothers.
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15 and 20 percent
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101. _____ are considered the first large-scale interactive global system.
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Airline reservation systems
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102. Although there has been a "gender revolution" since the 1960s, __________.
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There has been more acceptance of women than of men deviating from traditional gender norms
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103. In societies with _________________, peoples common beliefs and practices help bind them together.
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Mechanical solidarity
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104. A(n) ______ has a goal of destroying data or stealing information.
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105. ________ social movements advocate the radical reorganization of society.
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Alterative social movement
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106. That the biases of a ruling class are reflected in the laws passed is a belief of ____ adherents.
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Critical legal studies
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107. Boot camp is an installation tool that permits a choice between _______________.
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Mac OS X and Windows
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108. Compared to first marriages, remarriages tend to be __________ stable.
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109. A social group toward which a person feels competition or opposition is ________
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Out group
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110. Implied time is the portrayal or suggestion of the passage or duration of _____________.
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111. By definition, horticultural societies are those in which people ________
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Use simple hand tools to raise crops
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112. Anti-latino prejudice and racism tend to increase ____.
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During times of high immigration
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113. According to _____, poverty results from adherence to traditional values and customs.
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Modernization theory
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114. The text speaks of "opposing trends" in today's world of formal organizations because ________
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All of these
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115. The average new stepchild in a family is _____ years old.
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116. The _____ approaches are macro-level, describing societies in broad terms.
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Structural-functional and social-conflict
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117. Talcott parsons described gender in terms of ________
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Complementarity.
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118. In principle, bureaucratic organizations pay little attention to ________
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Tradition
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119. In a capitalist economic system, "justice" amounts to ________
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Freedom of the marketplace allowing people to follow their self-interest.
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120. From a social-conflict point of view, jokes ________
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Can be a way of making one category of people feel good at the expense of another
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121. Following structural-functional theory, the family ________
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Is important enough to be called the backbone of society.
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122. Ethicalism is the ________; examples of it are ________.
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Adherence to ethical principles in order to live a moral life; Taoism and Buddhism
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123. Due to time pressures on parents, _____ has (have) become a parental substitute.
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124. Built into society's institutions, _____ is negative treatment of a minority group.
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Institutional discrimination
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125. _______ refers to social organization in which males dominate females.
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Patriarchy
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126. The consequences of particular health habits are features of _____.
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Secondary aging
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127. Talcott parsons explained that males tend to exhibit _____ behavior, while females are more _____.
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Instrumental; expressive
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128. Most doctors and midwives recommend waiting at least ________ after birth to have intercourse.
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129. Jonathan kozol criticizes the u.s. educational system for ________
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Unequal funding that makes some schools far better than others.
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130. In the united states, a recent trend involving parenting is that ________
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More adults are delaying having children or choosing to remain childless.
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131. In distributive bargaining, conflicts are handled by _____.
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Competition
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132. Gender is a basis of social stratification for ______ society(ies) in the world.
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133. The _____ prohibits sex and marriage among designated relatives.
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Incest taboo
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134. When people engage in _______________, they use their words to attack or demean those around them.
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Verbal aggression
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135. A(n) ________ benefit is one where potential recipients must document their genuine need.
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Means tested
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136. _____ refers to a group whose inherited physical characteristics distinguish it from other groups.
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137. Under the proportional plan to reform the electoral college, each candidate would _____.
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Get a share of the electoral vote
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138. If the house fails to choose a president by january 20, the 20th amendment says that _____.
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The Vice President shall act as President.
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139. Even just the thought of the violation of a _____ fills us with revulsion.
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140. _________ is known for his traditional story ballets.
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Tchaikovsky
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141. If ____________ are abstract cultural beliefs, then ____________ are how they are put into play.
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Values; norms.
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142. Women commit about _____ of murders, but make up only _____ of death row inmates.
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143. Participating in ?the wave? at a baseball game is an example of ____________ theory.
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Contangion
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144. Socialist societies base their claim to democracy on ________
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Meeting the basic needs of all
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145. Outlaw bikers _____ a deviant identity.
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146. In terms of social inequality, agrarian societies generally ________
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Have much more inequality than less productive societal types.
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147. The word correlation is often used as a synonym for ________.
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Relationship
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148. Psychologists look at _____ as a possible cause of deviance.
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Personality disorders
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149. In terms of absolute numbers, most poor people in the united states are ________
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African American
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150. In her research, elisabeth k?bler-ross found that death ________
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Is an orderly transition involving specific stages.
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151. In freud's psychoanalysis, the _____ causes us to seek self-gratification.
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152. An example of a secondary group is _________
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A Microsoft Corporation awards banquet
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153. According to lisa keister's research, ________
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Social mobility has never existed in the United States
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154. A good example of a person in her society's upper-upper class is ________
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Elizabeth II, the queen of England.
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155. The global region in which the greatest reduction in poverty has taken place is ________
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156. The effect of the sexual counterrevolution was ________
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To encourage people to limit their number of sexual partners or, in some cases, to abstain from sex entirely.
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157. Because deviance undermines predictability, a system of _____ was developed to enforce the norms.
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Social control
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158. A widespread-but false-idea about rape is that ________
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Women who are raped must have encouraged their attackers.
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159. The majority of evidence indicates that sexual orientation is rooted in ________
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Human biology, although social experience plays some role.
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160. Medical knowledge possessed by doctors results in their ______ power.
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161. The correct view of the role of biology in causing people to commit crimes is that ________
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Biological factors may have a real but small effect in causing some people to commit suicide
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162. One characteristic of secondary groups is _________
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Their small size.
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163. According to intersection theory, ___________ is a source of social disadvantage.
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Gender, race, and class.
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164. A social-exchange analysis of family life is likely to consider ________
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How individuals select partners who offer about as much as they ...
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165. A secondary group is a social group that _________
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We experience late in life.
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166. A backward collar is a(n) _____ for a priest.
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Status symbol
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167. "marriage equality" is an illustration of ________.
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168. ________are often referred to as the "invisible minority."
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Native Americans
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169. _____ would be part of material culture.
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Hairstyles
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170. _____ is (are) the primary focus of microsociologists.
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Face to face interaction
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171. As part of your resistance posture you should portray ______ at all times
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Innocence
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172. Raymond cattell made a basic distinction between _____ and _____ traits.
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Source; surface
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173. Defense mechanisms are _____ strategies employed by the ego to reduce anxiety and avoid conflict.
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174. Compared with 42 sessions, 21 sessions of psychotherapy are _____ effective.
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175. An individual who believes that success is largely a matter of luck has an _____ locus of control.
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External locus of control
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176. A hacktivist is someone who _______.
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Hacks computers or Web sites in an attempt to promote a political ideology
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177. The body returns to its unaroused state in the _____ phase of sexual arousal.
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Resolution
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178. The antithesis of disengagement theory is _____ theory.
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179. ________ viruses are often transmitted by a flash drive left in a usb port.
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Boot-sector.
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180. Because fantastic creatures do not exist, they can serve as ____.
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181. Notes that don't belong to the traditional scale are known as ______________ alterations.
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Chromatic
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182. _____ refer(s) to values, norms, or other cultural traits found everywhere.
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Cultural universals.
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183. In every nation, _____ are much more likely to be the main caregivers for the frail elderly.
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Female relatives.
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184. In 2010, women earned ____________ percent of graduate degrees.
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185. The _____ culture refers to the values, norms, and goals that a group considers worth aiming for.
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186. The internet crime computer center (ic3) is an alliance between ______.
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The White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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187. To take game and minimize its suffering, you must know the ______ of the animal you are hunting.
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188. The ___________ records jewish interpretations of the _____________ which is their sacred text.
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Talmud; Torah
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189. Compared with single older adults, married older adults tend to be _____.
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Happier and wealthier
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190. ______ transforms one video image into another image over the course of several frames of video.
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191. The beginning stages of the masters and johnson technique of sensate focus involve _______.
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Removal of all clothing and caressing all non-genital body parts without reaching orgasm
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192. The average adult in middle adulthood __________ height and __________ weight.
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Loses; gains
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193. The _____ refers to opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life.
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Illegitimate opportunity structure
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194. Sustainable development and land use planning are most concerned with _______.
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Improving long-term city health
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195. _____ lay(s) out what is expected of people.
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196. _____ percent of adults over the age of 65 volunteer.
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197. _____, the decision to arrest someone or even to ignore a matter, is a routine part of police work.
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Police discretion
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198. A ______ might be a prop in the classroom performance of a professor.
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Lectern or podium.
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199. The position description for the level 1 help desk agent in this chapter illustrates that ____.
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Network support and user support are usually separate
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200. A portable media player can play files with all of the following file extensions except ________.
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201. College entrance requirements are the ____ expectations for admission
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202. A botnet is a ____.
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Network of robots that control an assembly line at a factory
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203. Frank lloyd wright's fallingwater house is best described as an example _______.
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Of a private residence becoming publicly important
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204. _________ was the first king to launch wars of aggression in the name of his primary god.
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Hammurabi
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205. The most prison-prone group in society is ________ between the ages of ________.
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20 and 29.
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206. Stonewalling sends a(n) __________ message to the other person.
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Disconfirming
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207. The elderly use _____ more often for processing information than do younger adults.
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Prior knowledge.
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208. In the world's least industrialized nations, _____, as was once common around the globe.
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It is mainly the wealthy who get a formal education.
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209. When interacting with people of an unfamiliar cultural background, ________
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What is funny to people in one society may not be funny to those from another society.
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210. Turning metals into automobiles is work that falls within the ________
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Secondary sector
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211. The percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested is called the __________.
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Recidivism
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212. The concept "white ethnics" refers to ________
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Non-WASPs of European ancestry.
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213. A social-conflict approach to sports would be an analysis of ________
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How sportsreflect social inequality
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214. Based on your reading, it would be correct to say that biological approaches offer ________
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A very limited understanding of crime.
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215. According to the laumann study of sexual patterns among u.s. adults, ________
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There are striking differences in sexual experience within the U.S. population.
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216. People who supported the 1996 welfare reform claim that the earlier system ________
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Encouraged welfare dependency
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217. Patterns that describe many latino families include ________
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All of these
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218. Culture acts as a constraint, limiting human freedom because ________
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Much culture is habit, which members of a society repeat again and again.
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219. Critics of the 1996 welfare reforms claim the new system ________
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Has done little to reduce poverty in the US
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220. A(n) _____ status is involuntary.
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221. A power-elite model of the u.s. political system suggests that ________
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Power is concentrated in the hands of a few
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222. A person's status is a lifelong condition determined by birth in __________.
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Caste system
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223. In the united states, the amish would be an example of a ________
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224. Executives who committed corporate crimes at macy's, sears, and bloomingdales spent _____ in jail.
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225. The view that elderly people need to remain active in a variety of social spheres is called _____.
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Activity theory
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226. According to the cage model, if countries share a common currency, ______ distance will be ______.
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Administrative; smaller
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227. The concept "state capitalism" refers to a system in which ________
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Privately-owned companies cooperate closely with the government
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228. The concept "retrospective labeling" refers to the process of ________
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Interpreting someone's past consistent with present deviance
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229. Survey research on attitudes towards premarital sex tells us that ________
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The public is more accepting of premarital sex than it was a generation ago.
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230. Stanley milgram's research, in which subjects used a "shock generator," showed ________
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People are surprisingly likely to follow the orders of not only real authority figures but also groups of ordinary individual
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231. The power of monarchs is limited by a fundamental set of laws in a(n) __________.
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Constitutional monarchy
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232. Schools provide _______ socialization through teacher modeling of behavior.
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Unintentional
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233. __________ is a commonly used measure of global economic integration.
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Trade as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP)
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234. The social sciences, including sociology, make the claim that _______
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As humans, to nurture is our nature
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235. The extent of violence in revolutions is __________.
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Quite variable
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236. The recidivism rate itself gives us information about __________.
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Offenders who reoffend
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237. According to george herbert mead, the term significant other refers to individuals __________.
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Individuals close to us - can motivate our behavior
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238. Labor-intensive garment industry assembly operators are __________.
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Less likely to locate in the United States than in the Caribbean
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239. Most ""one percenters"" __________.
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Have jobs
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240. Looking at childhood in global perspective, we find that _______
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Rich societies extend childhood much longer than do poor societies.
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241. The _____ approaches are macro-level, describing societies in broad, structural terms.
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Structural-functional and social-conflict
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242. As your textbook explains, __________ meaning gives words their emotional power.
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Connotative
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243. Other names for receiving countries are __________ countries.
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Destination or host
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244. One of the liberalizing outcomes of the sexual revolution was the __________.
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Destingmatization of premarital sex
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245. Mead describes the active, creative, and spontaneous part of the self as the ________.
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246. Jean piaget's use of the term ""operational"" is most aligned with the concept of ________.
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Reasoning skills.
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247. In the era of deglobalization, __________ was uncommon.
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Outsourcing
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248. __________ can be counted as a third strike.
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Any crime that can be considered a felony
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249. ________ are the social ties that radiate outward from the self and link people together.
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Social networks
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250. Equipment to measure physiological activity during sexual activity was designed by ________.
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Masters and Johnson
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251. Carl believes that men are innately superior to women. this is an example of __________.
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252. In the united states, __________ has historically mattered more than __________.
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Race; ethnicity
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253. Tact is a common response in potentially embarrassing situations because ________
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Everyone feels discomfort when a constructed reality breaks down.
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254. Schools, churches, and corporations are examples of __________ groups.
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Secondary
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255. Merton called the unintended consequences of behavior _____ functions.
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Latent funcions
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256. __________ include our family, close friends, and school- or work-related peer groups.
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Primary Groups
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257. The ________ is to the postindustrial society as the ________ is to the emerging biotech society.
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Microchip; decoding of the human genome system
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258. In 1848, horace mann called education __________.
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The great equalizer
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259. Conversational precision refers to __________.
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The often subtle physical and verbal cues people deploy to converse successfully with others
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260. In one case mentioned in the text, __________ resulted in a third strike.
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Smoking marijuana
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261. Building social relationships and creating tens of thousands of jobs are two of the ____ of sports.
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Latent functions
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262. In a ""well-told"" joke, ________
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There is a very sharp contrast between the conventional and unconventional definitions of reality.
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263. Stepfamilies differ from nuclear families in that stepfamilies typically ________.
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Tend to create new roles in the family structure
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264. Homogamy is ____ with marital satisfaction.
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Positively related
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265. In psychoanalytic theory, the ""culture within us"" is represented by the ________.
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Superego.
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266. An example of the ""medicalization of deviance"" is ________
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Theft being redefined as a
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267. An act of kindness, such as opening the door for an elderly man, illustrates conforming to ________
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268. __________ is one of the things sociologists argue places commercial pressure on journalism.
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Consolidation
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269. Evidence of the process called the ""mcdonaldization"" of society includes ________
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Bank tellers being replaced with automatic teller machines (ATMs).
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270. A __________ analysis examines whole societies, large-scale social structures, and social systems.
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Macrolevel
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271. German sociologist jurgen habermas's ideal of the public sphere is a vision of the __________.
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Equal participation in political life of all private citizens
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272. As a basis for signaling distinction, high-status cultural capital requires __________.
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273. According to robert merton, ________ are the intended beneficial consequences of people's actions
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Manifest functions
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274. __________ legitimizes and empowers a society's elites.
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275. Adults with a(n) __________ attachment style shun or evade emotional closeness.
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276. Arlie hochschild explains that companies typically ________
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Try to regulate the emotions of workers.
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277. Early theorists in the nineteenth century more often studied protesters in crowds as __________.
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Collective identity
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278. Your _______________ status is earned, while your _______________status is assigned.
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Achieved; ascribed.
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279. While a social network is ________, a social tie ________.
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The relationship between two people; explains how two people know each other
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280. While ____ are tangible, ____ are not.
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Distinctive competencies; core capabilities
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281. At every class level ________
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All of the above are correct
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282. Ellos __________ bajos y guapos.
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283. Microsociology focuses on social interaction while macrosociology focuses on __________.
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Broad features of society
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284. Animism is the ____________; examples of it are ____________.
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The belief that spirits are present in the natural world; totemism and shamanism
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285. The choice of a research method is also referred to as the ________.
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Research design
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286. As group size increases, ____________.
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Communication becomes more difficult
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287. In open stratification systems, social classes are based on _____ statuses.
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288. During the process of groupthink ________
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Group members quickly settle on a position and then they treat other possibilities as oppositional.
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289. Norms are to ____________ as values are to ____________
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Behavior; Attitudes;
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290. Mass media, family, peer groups, and school are all examples of __________.
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Agents of socialization
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291. The human potential movement reflects the emerging _____ value.
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Self-fulfillment
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292. Two people who have just had a baby have turned from a _______ to a _________.
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Dyad; triad
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293. Epidemiologists are currently studying the role of ________ in the spread of diseases globally.
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Climate change
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294. Apparently, having a reasonable level of _____ depends on early, close relations with other people.
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Intelligence
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295. A college student who does well on multiple-choice and essay exams likely is high in _____.
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Analytical intelligence
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296. _______________ often teach practical lessons about everyday living.
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Wisdom Psalms
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297. A computer game that can be purchased online and played right away has good ________ utility.
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298. The conflict-handling intention of collaborating is ________.
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Unassertive and cooperative
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299. The united states is not truly pluralistic because ________
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Racial and ethnic categories do not have equal social standing.
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300. The most uniformly applicable description of technology is that it ________.
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Is an artificial means of extending human abilities
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301. The crux of the nature versus nurture debate involves whether ________
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Biology or socialization shapes human behavior.
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302. Mores differ from folkways in that mores __________, whereas folkways __________.
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Have great moral significance; apply to routine or casual interaction
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303. In deciding what kinds of questions to ask in their research, sociologists are guided by ________
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One or more theoretical approaches.
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304. A type of reference group is ________.
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All of the above
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305. While prejudice is a matter of _____, discrimination is a matter of _____.
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Attitudes; action
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