A.   any cohabitating couple

B.   a group of friends living in different cities

C.   a group of people living together with their pets

D.   a group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption

A.   partners are happier in cohabitating relationships

B.   of the decrease in the level of stigma

C.   many couples can not afford to get married

D.   there is less stress in such arrangements

A.   the provision of day-care facilities

B.   socialization into a bureaucratic society

C.   the identification of potential marriage partners

D.   the transformation of a diverse population into a homogeneous society

A.   The number of nuclear families has doubled over the past 30 years.

B.   Many parents today are working parents.

C.   There are more single-parent households today than in the past 30 years.

D.   Cohabitation has emerged as a common lifestyle.

A.   The age at which people cohabitate usually ends at around 30

B.   There is a greater degree of financial and emotional commitment in marriage.

C.   Marriage is more fragile and more likely to end in separation.

D.   Cohabitation is never permanent, whereas most marriages are.

A.   endogamy

B.   heterogamy

C.   propinquity

D.   exogamy

A.   raising delinquent children.

B.   regulating sexual behavior

C.   providing care and protection

D.   socializing children

A.   are not as effective as opposite-sex parents

B.   never divorce

C.   are as effective as opposite-sex parents

D.   are much more effective as opposite-sex parents

A.   middle-school children

B.   adolescents

C.   age fifteen and older

D.   children less than one

A.   It is outlawed in every state.

B.   A growing number of parents are spanking their children.

C.   Studies have shown that spanking is not an effective form of punishment and may lead to aggression by the victim.

D.   Studies have shown that the spanking of children is always beneficial for their healthy development.

A.   believed that religion was important in establishing Worldviews

B.   saw religion as the tool that the upper classes used to maintain control of society and to dominate the lower classes

C.   believed that all religions eventionally adapt to society

D.   believed that religion always performs important functions in society

A.   monotheism

B.   secularism

C.   The Protestant Work Ethnic

D.   theism

A.   Emile Durkheim

B.   Karl Marx

C.   Professor Clark

D.   Max Weber

A.   ritual

B.   sect

C.   consequence

D.   belief

A.   manifest and latent functions of education.

B.   the hidden curriculum.

C.   latent functions of education.

D.   manifest functions of education.

A.   unimportant to a child's academic achievement.

B.   the most significant predictor of whether a student will attend college

C.   critical to a child's self perception.

D.   not correlated to the future success of students.

A.   are always valid indicators of student intelligent.

B.   excellent predictors of future student success

C.   are invalid academically and biased against minorities.

D.   are now uncommon in public schools.

A.   the consumer who purchases the goods

B.   the central committee that decides what the country needs

C.   the industrialist who produces the goods

D.   the level that the market will bear

A.   Home-schooled students are functionally illiterate when it comes to social skills.

B.   Home-schooled students are shy and timid when encountering new social situations.

C.   Home-schooled students have significant behavioral problems.

D.   Home-schooled students are equal or do better than conventional schooled students.

A.   It meets basic human needs.

B.   Without religion, there could be no salvation.

C.   All societies have churches.

D.   Religion unites all people of the world.

A.   It is lower than the divorce rate of first marriages.

B.   It is about the same as the divorce rate of first marriages.

C.   It is higher than the divorce rate of first marriages

D.   It varies based on the new dual income of the couple

A.   The cross is considered appropriate jewelry only for Christians.

B.   The cross acts as a badge of courage for fundamentalists.

C.   The cross is viewed as protection from evil spirits

D.   It is a condensed way for the wearer to say, "I am a follower of Jesus Christ."

A.   sexism in religion; social control

B.   contributing significant funding to the church; sexism in religion

C.   social control; religious persecution

D.   religious persecution; war and terrorism

A.   economic systems

B.   political systems

C.   capitalism

D.   social institutions

A.   Traditional

B.   Rational-Legal

C.   Democracy

D.   Charismatic

A.   is culturally biased because the tests are designed for lower-class students

B.   reflects genetic differences among people

C.   contributes to social inequality

D.   is a product of racial differences

A.   Belief

B.   Profane

C.   Organization

D.   Ritual and prayer

A.   Women are having more children nowadays.

B.   Cohabitation rates continue to pummel.

C.   Childnessness among married couples has been increasing in recent years.

D.   Many women in the chilbearing years do not see postponment of masrriage and childbearing as pathways to a good job and economic independence.

A.   sociology

B.   the sociological imagination

C.   solidarity

D.   social control

A.   Since 1978, the cost of higher education has increased 1,225 percent.

B.   In the years between 1991 and 2010, states funding for full-time students dropped 26 percent.

C.   School construction projects have dropped significantly.

D.   The cost of college education has shifted from states to students and their families.

A.   are as equally likely to vote as high-school graduates.

B.   increase the demand for social services.

C.   pay more in taxes.

D.   have no significant impact in society.

A.   authoritarian government.

B.   oligarchy.

C.   dictatorship.

D.   democracy.

A.   the pursuit of profit

B.   basic human needs

C.   the desire to eliminate inequality

D.   the need for efficient economic production

A.   It is a doctrine legitimating the social order and the inequalities that accompany it

B.   It is a doctrine emphasizing conspicuous consumption and individual success.

C.   It is a way of thinking about the supernatural and its part in religion.

D.   It is a new approach to work and money that emphasizes investment to make profit.

A.   It leads to severe social inequalities.

B.   It violates the basic economic law of supply and demand.

C.   It promotes immorality through conspicuous consumption.

D.   It produces more products than can be reasonably consumed.