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General Sociology MCQs

1. _____ is the final step in the mbo process.

2. _____ risks refer to those that are direct results of implementing risk responses

3. ________ refers to the process of monitoring, comparing, and correcting work performance.

4. __________ provided dynamic leadership for the american federation of labor during its early years.

5. A ________ includes both positive and negative aspects about the job and the company.

6. A company called ____ provides digital certifications for web transactions.

7. A company is using a ______ pay structure in which more efficient workers earn higher wages.

8. A patrilocal culture is one in which __________.

9. A social networking web site _____.

10. _____ norms are those that are situationally created to support a collective action.

11. _____ planning normally is performed by middle managers and typically has a one-year time frame.

12. _________ refer to the ability to motivate, to inspire trust, and to communicate with others.

13. A fraternity is an example of an organization because it is comprised of people who ________.

14. Female voters _____ male voters.

15. In his study of differences in cultural environments, geert hofstede found that ________.

16. Mead describes the active, creative, and spontaneous part of the self as the ________.

17. Mechanical solidarity is to gemeinschaft as ________ solidarity is to gesellschaft.

18. Media buying is an example of a(n) _____ market.

19. The anthropologist oscar lewis suggested the cause of poverty lies in ________

20. The incest taboo ________

21. With professionalization, __________ gained control over the entire medical establishment.

22. A ____ is simply a means of classifying people according to a shared trait or a common status.

23. A basic need addressed by _____ is to regulate reproduction.

24. An example of a dependent variable in an experiment might be _____.

25. An example of a primary group is _________

26. An example of a secondary group is _________

27. A type of reference group is ________.

28. ________ is a proactive approach to the problem of crime.

29. If you feel hungry, marketers would say you have developed __________ to eat something.

30. According to research, about ________ of mothers had spanked their children.

31. Although about 20-25% of mothers are single mothers, only _____of fathers are single fathers.

32. There are about _____ confirmed cases of child abuse or neglect annually in the united states.

33. Signs that identify a position in society that someone occupies are referred to as ________.

34. A(n) _____ has standards that we refer to as we evaluate ourselves.

35. A(n) _____ includes the merging of data from different data systems into one centralized database.

36. _____ harnesses the sociological perspective for the benefit of the public.

37. Comparative research indicates that ________

38. _____ theory is to role relinquishment as _____ theory is to social involvement.

39. _____ use a physiological element to enhance security measures.

40. _______ occurs when conflicted parties seek an agreement through direct negotiation.

41. ________ attack countermeasures such as antivirus signature files or integrity databases.

42. ________ identify the access points in a wi-fi network.

43. A negative outcome of male sexual scripts is the expectation that ________.

44. A packet sniffer is a program that can enable a hacker to do all of the following, except ________.

45. A short-term interruption in electrical power availability is known as a ____.

46. A social-exchange analysis states that ________

47. Childbirth and breast milk can pass on hiv, but the most common infections are through ________.

48. Complete the following sentence. sexual pain in men is _____________.

49. Conflict that hinders group performance is destructive or ________ conflict.

50. Females are ___ times more likely than males to be victims of rape and sexual assault.

51. Ferdinand tnnies described modernity as the loss of ________

52. Ferpa regulates the confidentiality of ______.

53. Fires on the cuyahoga river raised concerns that contributed to ________.

54. Firewalls work by closing ____ in your computer

55. For any particular status, __________ refers to how a person actually behaves within her role.

56. For tnnies, the essence of gesellschaft is ________

57. Generally, lesbian couples division of labor is _____ than that of gay male couples.

58. Gina is most likely to experience disenfranchised grief if her _____ dies.

59. _______ refers to the process of lessening the penalties attached to particular offenses.

60. ________ among female inmates is very high.

61. ________ capacity refers to the inmate population the institution was originally built to handle.

62. ________ incapacitation is a strategy that would imprison almost all serious offenders.

63. ________ incapacitation seeks to identify the most dangerous criminals.

64. A parole board makes decisions about _____ release.

65. ________ can separate industrial and commercial enterprises from residential areas.

66. A pluralistic society is one in which ________

67. Cuban immigration increased tremendously ________.

68. _____ teams are physically dispersed and communicate electronically more than face-to-face.

69. _____ uses formal bargaining to win acceptance and approval of a desired change.

70. _______ is the number of people reporting directly to a given manager.

71. ________ holds that there are few really new ideas and that "true is better" than new.

72. A sales forecast is an example of an organizational control from the _____ area.

73. A scope baseline is composed of an approved scope statement, a wbs, and a ____.

74. A strategy that sets the long-term direction for an organization as a whole is called a __________.

75. A tribe flood network attack is a type of ________ attack.

76. A woman may insert a diaphragm as long as ____ prior to intercourse and have it still be effective.

77. A(n) ____ lifestyle involves ridding oneself of all concerns about privacy.

78. A(n) ______ was originally a complimentary work for a computer enthusiast.

79. A(n) ________ crime is one where even the individual who was victimized is unaware of the crime.

80. A(n) _________ is a tool hackers use to record your keystrokes.

81. A(n) _________ to an information resource is any danger to which a system may be exposed.

82. A(n) __________ pings a packet of data to a port in order to see if that port is open or not.

83. A(n) ___________ is a tabulation of the demands placed on nature by individuals or nations.

84. According to alfred kinseys sexual orientation scale, most people __________.

85. Legislation that requires businesses to prove that they are securing their data ____.

86. Life satisfaction for the elderly correlates with _____.

87. Lifetime activities are activities that can be __________.

88. Lionel is experiencing the sensation of ejaculatory inevitability. this means that _________.

89. Major neurocognitive disorder rarely occurs until after age _____.

90. Malicious code that is scripted to send itself to other users is known as a _____.

91. Malware developers often use _____________ to write boot record infectors.

92. Malware is short for ______ software.

93. Mandatory retirement was abolished by law in ______.

94. Many americans think the federal budget goes primarily toward welfare, which is _____.

95. Many developmentalists believe that one sign of mental health in older adults is _____.

96. Many parents display _______ in living arrangements and family structures or forms.

97. Marx argued that religion would be unnecessary in a ___________________ society.

98. Masters and johnson identified orgasm as the ________ phase of the sexual response cycle.

99. Masters and johnson researched the _____ aspects of human sexuality.

100. Max weber focused primarily on individual action as a foundation of __________.

101. Medicare is a ________ program; medicaid is a ________ program.

102. Men use prostitutes for multiple reasons. a prominent one is ________.

103. Most aggravated assaults are committed with ________.

104. Most divorces occur __________ marriage.

105. Myspace purged _____ sex offenders from its site over a period of two years.

106. Native american parents have been described as exhibiting a(n) __________ parenting style.

107. Nuclear families make up _____ of all u.s. families

108. Of the five modes of adaptation, ____ is not a deviant response.

109. Older immigrants tend to be _____.

110. Older people first rely on ______ when long-term care needs develop.

111. Oliver was diagnosed with prostatitis. this means that he has _______.

112. On the back of a credit card the three-digit number above the signature panel is used to _____.

113. One need addressed by __________ is the replenishment of the population.

114. One of the most powerful predictors of one's health is __________.

115. The hayflick limit is a natural limit to the _____.

116. The heterosexual transmission of hiv/aids is ____________.

117. The immediate result of a worm is ____.

118. The major public payer of care in nursing homes is ______.

119. The majority of family violence offenders are white males ages __________ and older.

120. The majority of stalking cases are categorized as ____________ stalking.

121. The marxist political-economy model suggests that ________

122. The most cited reason why rape victims do not report crimes is ________.

123. The most common coital position in western cultures is _______.

124. The most difficult transition in married life is typically ________

125. The new standard for determining sexual harassment is the _____ standard.

126. The number-one iu preparation-and-prevention strategy is ____.

127. The object used by the kerberos protocol to provide client verification is known as a ____.

128. The old order amish of the united states exemplify a(n) _____ community.

129. The original goal of the reformation led by martin luther was to ________.

130. The paraphilias are considered in the context of two categories, those that ________.

131. The primary difference between staging and undoing is ________.

132. The primary reason someone friends a brand on facebook is to _____.

133. The purpose of advanced persistent threat (apt) usually is to ____.

134. The reality we construct through social interaction is likely influenced by our ________

135. The research on divorce indicates that __________.

136. The responsibility for preventing frailty among the elderly in a society falls to _____.

137. The sex hormones secreted in greater amounts by males than by females are the _____.

138. The sexual counterrevolution had begun in the united states by ________

139. When people are said to be anthropomorphizing the gods, they are __________.

140. When we experience conflict, it threatens our needs to feel _______.

141. World religions are often quite flexible and innovative at the ________level.

142. A(n) _____ group is the group with the most power, greatest privileges, and highest social status.

143. Native americans who oppose gambling on moral grounds do so because ________.

144. One of the central conditions on which slavery in the united states rested was that ________.

145. The indian reorganization act of 1934 prohibited _____.

146. The most important organization or social institution among mexican americans is ________.

147. The number of eligible hispanic voters is expected to __________ in the next few decades.

148. The primary reasons for much contemporary immigration are _____________ and _____________.

149. Lesbians named _________ as their number one source of support.

150. Masters and johnson reported that unlike men, women ________.

151. The idea that women place a high value on caring and nurturing others is the _____ theory.

152. The most pervasive form of institutional sexism is ______.

153. Two methods of active wiretapping are between lines transmission and ____.

154. Aaron, like many gay people, recognizes that one of the dangers of coming out is ________.

155. About _____ percent of grandparents in the united states are raising grandchildren.

156. About ______ of artificial reproductive technology procedures result in a live birth.

157. About ________ percent of the current federal budget is spent on entitlement programs.

158. About __________ percent of americans say that they favor legal marriage for same-sex couples.

159. About 1 in every _____ long-term marriages is unsatisfying, decreasing health and happiness.

160. About one-third of older people will be frail for _____ before they die.

161. According to _____, social change is a slow and gradual process.

162. According to bohannon, the ________ divorce is the formal dissolution of a marriage.

163. According to breiding (2014), ______ men have been stalked by an intimate partner.

164. According to erikson, each new experience throughout life requires _____.

165. According to erikson, integrity versus despair is the focus of _____.

166. According to erikson, the pathology of the _____ stage of development is rejection.

167. According to erikson's theory, the dominant crisis of adolescence concerns _____.

168. According to lenski, the term "sociocultural evolution" refers to ________

169. According to neil smelser, several conditions must be in place for _________________ to occur?

170. According to the "new view of women's sexual problems," _________.

171. According to the american psychological association, sexual orientation is viewed as a(n) ________.

172. According to the text, individuals must create a _____________ identity to interact with the state.

173. According to the text, of all persons in the world who are illiterate, ______are females.

174. According to the text, the functional aspect(s) of deviance is (are) ________.

175. According to the traditional view of conflict, conflict is ________.

176. According to the u.s. census bureau, in the last 50 years, the marriage rate has __________.

177. Adls are _____.

178. After no fault divorce laws, there was a spike in divorces, and then the rate ________.

179. All of the following are ways that can infect your computer with a virus except ________.

180. All of the following help to reduce the problem of social traps except ___________.

181. Amicable behaviors that promote group cohesion are called _______ behaviors.

182. Among american indians who migrate from reservations to cities, a common pattern is ________

183. An attacker types more data in a field than the programmer expected. this is a(n) ________ attack

184. An example of an adl is _______, and an example of an iadl is __________.

185. An individuals __________ age is based on actual competence and performance.

186. Another term for botnet is ______ army.

187. Antivirus software uses ________ to search for known viruses.

188. Approximately _____ percent of people over age 65 can see well without glasses.

189. "the black cat" is an example of _____.

190. Argumentativeness is __________.

191. As a physical security measure, _____.

192. As an older dater, the main problem bruce (now 80) faces is ________.

193. Because of _____aging, thelma has had a very tough time recovering from a recent bout of pneumonia.

194. Before the landmark u.s. supreme court case of _______, abortion was illegal in this country.

195. Between the 1950s and the 1990s, the average age of retirement ______.

196. Bloggers organize their content by assigning _____ to particular posts or chunks of content.

197. Blogs and wikis fundamentally differ in terms of _________.

198. Both the ____ and ____ produce androgens in the female body.

199. Caregivers can diminish the independence of the elderly if they _____.

200. Divorce among older couples and those in long-term marriages has been termed ______ divorce.

201. Health lifestyles activities typically take place __________ the health care delivery system.

202. Holding non-ageist attitudes when under age 50 has been associated with _____ 30 years later.

203. How should adults deal with a child who has encountered death? they should _____.

204. If a man has a viral or bacterial infection, pre-ejaculate fluid _________.

205. If a speedy decision is needed, the _______ conflict handling style is appropriate.

206. In 1972, _____________ percent of the population identified as catholic or protestant.

207. In 2010, about __________ percent of wives with children between ages 6 and 17 earned wages.

208. In 2011, births to unmarried women reached a record high of _____________ percent.

209. In 2014, __________ percent of young adults aged 18-24 lived with their parents.

210. In a distributed denial-of-service (ddos) attack, the services of a(n) ____ can be halted.

211. In a swedish study, centenarians were found to be less likely to _____ than octogenarians.

212. The star of david is to the jews as the ________ is to the hindus.

213. Single mothers often have a ___________, or social support from family and friends.

214. The stages of david reed's erotic stimulus pathway theory are _________.

215. The style of grandparenting that is the most common in developed nations is the _____ style.

216. Those people who own the mode of production are typically of _________ than laborers.

217. Those with a family change perspective view the family as ________________.

218. Today, ______ percent of households were made up of married couples with children.

219. Today, most americans view the family as a(n) ________ institution.

220. Today, the statistical norm among married couples is the __________ marriage.

221. Unlike white blood cells, red blood cells lose their ________ and ________ as they mature.

222. Wireless is a(n) inherently _________ network.

223. ____ includes any acts of malicious destruction to a computer or computer resource.

224. _____ are essentially portable modems about the size of a usb drive.

225. ____ theory recognizes that as people mature, the factors that influence their behavior change.

226. ________ is a nearly universal system involving the subordination of femininity to masculinity.

227. ____ management is a soft skill required to achieve high performance on projects.

228. ________ is an example of a high-performance work practice.

229. A ____ combines into one program the characteristics of other attacks.

230. _____ is the transformation of traditional societies into industrial societies.

231. _____ percent of people over age 65 are grandparents.

232. ________ orchestrated the great society programs of the 1960s.

233. __________ divides people according to income, education, and occupation.

234. ____________ results from inadequate growth during gestation or a curtailed period of gestation.

235. ______________ means that only people with the right permission can access and use information.

236. ____________________ provides tracking of events.

237. ________states that people apply economic principles to evaluate their relationships.

238. A ____ allows hackers to gain access to important code or information in a software program.

239. A ____ attack is similar to a passive man-in-the-middle attack.

240. A _____ is a programming routine built into a system by its designer or programmer.

241. A _____ plan lists the tasks that must be performed to restore damaged data and equipment.

242. A _____ social movement resists some social change.

243. A ________ is a virus that is triggered on a certain date.

244. A ___________ is a tool used to scan ip host devices for open ports that have been enabled.

245. A child who can adapt effectively in the face of threats is demonstrating _____.

246. A criticism of _____ is that it understates the cohesion and stability found in society.

247. A function that provides ____ checks the integrity of each packet individually.

248. A hardware firewall _______________.

249. After wwii, as soldiers came home, the government encouraged women to __________.

250. __________ is the first function in the propagation phase for a network worm.

251. ________ was the first state to have a shock incarceration program.

252. ______________ is a particularly useful model for explaining shoplifting.

253. ________________ refers to the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf.

254. "crimes against the person" includes all but ________

255. A ____ is the disciplinarian of the prison, responsible for policing and transporting the inmates.

256. ________ is the belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal human traits.

257. ________ is the single most important factor in predicting whether an individual votes.

258. ________ refers to the collected sayings included in the qur'an.

259. __________ have the highest rates of educational attainment in the united states.

260. __________ occurs when a minority group is blamed for others' failures and shortcomings.

261. "repatriation" and "operation wetback" are examples of __________ efforts.

262. A clear indication of the multicultural nature of hawai'i is ________.

263. A complicating factor for latinos in educational attainment is ________.

264. ________ was the first to propose that we might need affirmative action for men.

265. A __________ cuts across all other identities in life.

266. A few companies today hope to lessen ______ by eliminating salary negotiations.

267. ________ is malware that tries to convince you that your computer is infected with a virus.

268. _________ is assistance and comfort supplied by a network of caring, interested people.

269. _____, for durkheim, meant things connected with the supernatural.

270. A hacker who goes through the garbage looking for information is engaging in _______________.

271. A company may hire a ____ hacker to learn about vulnerabilities in its system.

272. Conversion to one of the world religions has often been associated with __________.

273. Crime by females has been __________.

274. The _____ argues that people create and define their reality through social exchanges.

275. Retirement frees up about ______ hours a week for men and ______ hours a week for women.

276. Scholar __________ focused on crowd psychology and developed the contagion theory.

277. Sexual experimentation is a(n) ________ function of dating.

278. Sexually transmitted infections (stis) affect approximately _____ u.s. adults.

279. Shacking up or living in sin are old-fashioned ways to describe ________.

280. Situations with both _______________ produce the highest risk of conflict.

281. Social computing forces companies to deal with customers ________ as opposed to ________.

282. Studies suggest that _____ are among the most androgynous ethnic groups in the united states.

283. To interpret _____, we consider facial expressions, posture, and gestures.

284. Tor is software that allows users to browse the web ________.

285. Unlike other malware, a ____ is heavily dependent upon the user for its survival.

286. Using multiple indicators of a concept likely makes the measure more _____.

287. Viruses, adware, and spyware are referred to collectively as ________.

288. Revocation of probation or parole ________.

289. The ____ is conducted primarily to gain information for judicial sentences.

290. The ________ is the most secure prison ever built by the federal government.

291. The ________ model of corrections emphasized indeterminate sentencing and rehabilitation.

292. To satisfy the requirements of ________________, guilty actions must be voluntary.

293. Traditional policing tends to favor random and __________ patrol.

294. Uniform sentencing is a form of __________.

295. When citizens take the law into their own hands it is known as __________.

296. Rising per capita consumption of goods and rising population growth lead to ________.

297. Significant immigration of asian americans to the united states was first sparked by ________

298. Terms such as mulatto colombians and mestizo hondurans refer to a(n) ________.

299. Usually negative, _____ is an attitude or prejudgment.

300. Research on differences in male and female brain activity has found that ________________,

301. Until 1973, _______________ was included in the dsm as a mental illness.

302. Today, mothers receive sole physical custody of their children about ___ percent of the time.

303. Typically in __________ cultures, a wedding takes place only after a relationship has developed.

304. Research suggests that communities with high levels of cohesion and trust have __________.

305. Service-sector jobs, which began to replace manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, refer to __________.

306. __________ had the fewest opportunities for social inequality to emerge.

307. __________ is a designation of class that considers income, occupation, and salary.

308. During the 1990s, declines in the teen birth rate were especially large for __________ women.

309. ____ one of the reasons that people resist cultural change.

310. ____ releases a constant dose of estrogen and progestin.

311. _____ intrigue sociological researchers, particularly those separated at birth.

312. _____ is a formal system of teaching knowledge, values, and skills.

313. _____ is the evaluation of a social group based on misconceptions about the group.

314. _____ predicts that human interaction has the characteristics of a game.

315. _____ violate(s) rules that are written into law.

316. _____ weber _____ marx viewed property as the only source of power.

317. ______ are examples of former colonies that have achieved economic success.

318. _____'s work is the basis for conflict theory.

319. _____is concerned with how people define and negotiate family relationships.

320. A(n) __________ is an alliance created in an attempt to reach a shared objective or goal.

321. A(n) __________ is an extended, open-ended interaction between an interviewer and an interviewee.

322. According to _____, education supports the needs of a capitalist economy.

323. According to _____, poverty results from the dependence of low-income countries on wealthy nations.

324. According to _____, scientific observation is viewed as the highest form of knowledge.

325. According to karl marx, ______________________ leads to revolution.

326. According to sociologist howard becker, crime and deviance are defined by the __________.

327. According to the one-dimensional view of power, __________.

328. According to theodore sizer, bureaucracy harms schooling by ________

329. According to weber, a bureaucracy is a(n) __________ structure governed by __________ rules.

330. According to weber, in ________authority, power is legitimated by the sanctity of age-old customs.

331. After marriage, other-sex friendships __________ for __________.

332. After the great recession (20082010) the wealth gap, relative to white americans, ________.

333. Agrarian technology developed based on the use of ________

334. An individual who leads by trying to reach a consensus is a(n) _____ leader.

335. Arab americans are a u.s. minority that ________

336. Arab americans have tended to ________.

337. As a rich nation that values consumption and convenience, the u.s. can be described as ________

338. As used by demographers, a __________ is a group of people who live in a specified geographic area.

339. At each stage of our development, we are both individuals and __________.

340. At the top of the system of inequality in the former soviet union were the ________

341. Both mainstreaming and _____ refer to helping people to become part of the mainstream of society.

342. Concerning deaths in school shootings, the trend over the last 20 years is _____ deaths.

343. Critical sociology can best be described as a(n) ________ approach.

344. Halfway through his second term, president bush's administration was marked by _____.

345. In a self-fulfilling prophecy, the assertion was originally _____, and becomes _____.

346. Karl marxs communist manifesto is based on the ____ perspective.

347. Marx used the term _____ to refer to workers' lack of connection to the product of their labor.

348. Mills believed that centralized power in the hands of a few ____________ democracy.

349. Multiculturalism is defined as ________

350. Sexual attraction and behavior are shaped by __________.

351. Sociological studies test relationships in which change in one ______ causes change in another.

352. Sociologists of science are interested in the ____________ of scientific discoveries.

353. The _____ countries are typically poor and largely agricultural.

354. The _____ is the factor that is predicted to cause change in behavior being researched.

355. The ________ were the first immigrant group to encounter prolonged organized resistance.

356. The __________ is the percentage of unemployed persons in the labor force actively seeking jobs.

357. The _____, according to marx, were the exploited workers who did not own the means of production.

358. The 125,000 cubans who entered the u.s. in 1980 during the "mariel boat lift," were largely _____.

359. The age range of women most likely to be victims of rape is ________.

360. The idea that competition, not conflict, helps maintain social cohesion was put forward by ________

361. The number of women physicians grew from _____ in 1970 to _____ in 2012.

362. The sociological term for a spoiled or devalued social identity is __________.

363. The special importance of the peer group is the fact that it _______

364. The story about the class at new york's bronx community college explains that ________

365. The term "________" refers to the extent to which different studies come up with similar results.

366. The text emphasizes that _____ is most responsible for a persons chance in life.

367. Tougher sentencing has __________ the availability of drugs, __________ to reduce illicit drug use.

368. When jack raises his eyebrows at a comment made by carol he is engaging in _______ .

369. When marx argued that capitalism "reproduces the class structure," he meant that ________

370. Whether people respond to deviance as a moral issue or a medical matter affects ________

371. Women are more likely to get doctorates in _____ than in _____.

372. Work specialization contributes to higher employee productivity, but at the price of ________.

373. Working to achieve sustainability on college and university campuses ________.

374. Sir francis bacon originally defined _____, which involves several steps of the research process.

375. Consumer advocate ralph nader, an arab american politician, ________.

376. Clearances are based primarily on ________.

377. For ________ offenses, the ucr only collects information on recorded arrests.

378. Criminologists should be ethical in their research because ______.

379. Chinese americans have not been active in politics because ________.

380. Commonwealth supporters argue that ________.

381. For african americans, the family reflects the legacy of ________.

382. Comparing the performances of female and male athletes over time shows ________

383. Theory testing usually involves the development of a(n) ________ based on what the theory predicts.

384. Premature ejaculation is the ________ sexual complaint of men.

385. The dynamic, whereby socialization continues throughout our lives is called __________.

386. The fear of being judged in connection with sexual behavior is called _____.

387. The biopsychosocial model was proposed as an alternative to prevailing _______ and ______ models.

388. People include as "kin" others to whom they are linked by ________

389. People who feel guilty about having sexual fantasies _______.

390. Persons aged 65 or older have the ________ victimization rates for all types of crime.

391. Phonosurgery refers to a procedure to ________.

392. One study found levels of ________ in men who have pedophilia to be significantly higher.

393. Oral sex involves two distinct behaviors called _______ and _______.

394. Over the past decade, there has been a _____ in fathers who have joint physical custody.

395. One purpose of ________ is to help ensure the reappearance of the accused at trial.

396. One purpose of ________ is to provide an opportunity for bail.

397. Opportunities for federal appeals by death-row inmates were limited by the ________ act

398. The fact that ________ is a major difference between brazilian and american racial classifications.

399. People who fault latinos/latinas for the high unemployment in the u.s. are __________.

400. Opponents of the afrocentric perspective see it as ________.

401. Overweight women make about ______ dollars less a year than do average weight women.

402. In data encryption, the https in a browser address bar indicates a safe http connection over _____.

403. In men, the purpose of the _______ is to carry semen and urine from inside to outside the body.

404. In older adults, a positive world view _____.

405. In order to achieve an orgasm, many women require _________.

406. In parent and adult child relationships, _____ feel stronger affection toward their parents.

407. In physical security measures, using _____ is an inexpensive way to secure a computer to a counter.

408. In terms of safety at home, mailboxes should list _________.

409. In the _____ revolution, machines powered by fuels replaced most animal and human power.

410. In the _____ stage of dying, the dying person's question is, "why me?"

411. In a(n) ________ attack, information that a user enters is sent back to the user in a webpage.

412. In an aging brain _____.

413. In comparison to adolescent sexuality, adult sexuality is more about ________.

414. In the three-way handshake, the first packet in the sequence has the ________ flag set.

415. In the united states, ________ are an historical exception to the patriarchal tradition.

416. Individuals living alone now make up __________ percent of u.s. households.

417. In the united states, family violence is ________

418. In the united states, romantic love ________

419. Individualists tend to view conflict using a(n) __________ conflict lens.

420. Individuals selected to respond to a researchers request for information are called _______.

421. Inequality creates ____________, which affects our height through stress reactions.

422. Inez, age 76, believes she is independent and has personal autonomy. she is likely to be _____.

423. It is estimated that __________ children under age 18 are living in a grandparents household.

424. The documented effects of sexual abuse on children include ________.

425. The definition of child sexual abuse considers sexual victimization by ______.

426. In the united states, men account for about _____ of all arrests for violent crime.

427. Institutional social control includes ____ while public social control includes ___.

428. Intermediate sanctions are also sometimes termed ________.

429. In western history, the binary sex system with which we are familiar _______

430. The concept of __________ is at the heart of the study of social stratification.

431. In industrial societies, social cohesion is achieved through _____.

432. In general, we see _______ as a means to an end; we see _____ as an end in itself.

433. In the eyes of _____, society is a whole unit, made up of interrelated parts that work together.

434. In the statement, diet determines ones life expectancy, diet is the ______ variable.

435. In the united states, most killers are _____ and their victims are primarily _____.

436. Income, education, and occupation are the dimensions of __________.

437. Japanese immigrants differed from earlier chinese immigrants by ________

438. John has diabetes. the cost of treating it is _________ .

439. Just by doing business normally, _____ help to maintain internal stratification.

440. Primary and secondary aging combine to make major body systems _____.

441. Programs that teach teens only abstinence have been shown to ________.

442. Progressive women reformers worked to _____.

443. Prostitution is widely regarded as a ________

444. Racial and ethnic groups realize that formal schooling is the key to ________.

445. Racism emerged as an ideology __________.

446. Rationalization means that all steps to a process are decided with ____________ in mind.

447. Recent decades have seen a _____ in mens share of housework.

448. Regardless of race, families headed by single women are ________

449. In ancient times and in the middle ages, children were often viewed as _____.

450. One way to overcome generational distinctions is to ______.

451. The automobile, and the skills needed to drive it, would be an example of ________.

452. The average adult in the us watches _____ hours of television each week.

453. The basic idea behind demographic transition theory is ________

454. The basic purpose of ____ planning is to leave commitments open by maintaining slack resources.

455. The concept of the maquiladoras was made possible by the passage of the ________.

456. Probation is sanctioned by the ________.

457. The veil may be seen as a rejection of ________ prevalent in western societies.

458. A(n) _____ leader keeps the group moving toward its goals.

459. Nafta is to north america as asean is to ________.

460. No _____ has yet been elected to the u.s. senate.

461. Stanley milgram's research led to the phrase "_____ degrees of separation."

462. The realignment of the world's powers that occurred after world war ii is called ________.

463. Thomas szasz made the controversial assertion that ________

464. The majority of minimum-wage employees are __________.

465. By 1830, the northern states of __________ , indiana, and southern illinois were heavily settled.

466. In 1837, illinois blacksmith __________ developed a new steel plow that rapidly became popular.

467. According to ____ theory, indicators of neighborhood disorder are highly predictive of crime rates.

468. According to conflict theorists, societal conflict promotes crime by ______.

469. According to peel, the main function of the police was to ________ by ________ of the community.

470. All of the following discretionary decisions are always inappropriate, except ________.

471. An act that violates criminal law and is punishable by criminal sanctions is known as a_________

472. An average of _____ people in the united states fall victim to hate crimes each year?

473. An eyewitness who saw a crime being committed is an example of a(n) ________ witness

474. Another name for intelligence-led policing is __________ policing.

475. Bernard madoff has been referred to as the greatest ____ of all time.

476. Herbert packer likened the idealized criminal justice system to a(n) _________

477. House arrest is a valuable alternative to prison for ________.

478. In ____, the court ruled that the probation officer/client relationship is not confidential.

479. Streetwise young women with little respect for traditional prison values are called ________.

480. The _____ created the office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention.

481. The uniform crime report is prepared by_______

482. ________ are contracted laborers brought to the united states from mexico after the depression.

483. According to the slave codes, ________.

484. Acculturation of chinese americans in family life is evidenced by ________.

485. American adults account for __________ percent of all prison and jail inmates worldwide.

486. Among some residents of puerto rico, the idea of statehood invokes the fear of ________.

487. Another term for an ethnic slur is ________.

488. Ashley montagu, a physical anthropologist, classified humans into ________ different racial groups.

489. Beginning in 1991, china loosened its adoption laws in order to ________.

490. Historically, wasps dominated social life in the united states until about ________

491. In 1948, the philippines lost their unrestricted immigration rights to the united states ________.

492. What gunnar myrdal called the "american dilemma" was ________

493. When a society classifies people by race, it _________________.

494. According to __________ patriarchy could have had different origins in different places.

495. The united states ranks _____ in women's political leadership.

496. All death row inmates are held in ________ prisons

497. As late as the 1920s, ______ of employed irish-born women in the united states worked as domestics.

498. ________ refers to a range of negative feelings toward muslims and their religion.

499. The gender gap in education favors girls over boys with respect to __________.

500. Until the 1980s most parents believed that _____________ should be kept secret.

501. Using sociological imagination gives us more than a(n) ____________ interpretation of the world.

502. Currently in developed nations, most grandparents try to be _____.

503. Couples who cohabit due to convenience are _____.

504. Ordinary germans cooperated with and even participated in the genocide of jews because __________.

505. The campus culture of "hooking up" involves sexual relationships between partners who ________

506. In the face of strong evidence of the offender's guilt, a juvenile court judge may ________.

507. In colonial times, youths were punished by ________.

508. In hawai'i, the term ________ is used to refer to "real or true people."

509. Community policing is one of the most __________ ways that a police department can operate.

510. The bottom ______ % of americans has 7% of the nation's wealth.

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