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.   of the decrease in the level of stigma

B.   partners are happier in cohabitating relationships

C.   there is less stress in such arrangements

D.   many couples can not afford to get married

A.   the provision of day-care facilities

B.   the identification of potential marriage partners

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

D.   socialization into a bureaucratic society

A.   Cohabitation has emerged as a common lifestyle.

B.   Many parents today are working parents.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A.   endogamy

B.   propinquity

C.   exogamy

D.   heterogamy

A.   regulating sexual behavior

B.   raising delinquent children.

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.   age fifteen and older

B.   adolescents

C.   middle-school children

D.   children less than one

A.   It is outlawed in every state.

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

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

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

A.   believed that religion always performs important functions in society

B.   believed that all religions eventionally adapt to society

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

D.   believed that religion was important in establishing Worldviews

A.   The Protestant Work Ethnic

B.   secularism

C.   theism

D.   monotheism

A.   Max Weber

B.   Karl Marx

C.   Professor Clark

D.   Emile Durkheim

A.   sect

B.   ritual

C.   belief

D.   consequence

A.   manifest functions of education.

B.   the hidden curriculum.

C.   manifest and latent functions of education.

D.   latent functions of education.

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

B.   critical to a child's self perception.

C.   not correlated to the future success of students.

D.   unimportant to a child's academic achievement.

A.   are now uncommon in public schools.

B.   are invalid academically and biased against minorities.

C.   excellent predictors of future student success

D.   are always valid indicators of student intelligent.

A.   the central committee that decides what the country needs

B.   the level that the market will bear

C.   the consumer who purchases the goods

D.   the industrialist who produces the goods

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

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

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

D.   Home-schooled students have significant behavioral problems.

A.   Without religion, there could be no salvation.

B.   Religion unites all people of the world.

C.   All societies have churches.

D.   It meets basic human needs.

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

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

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

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

A.   The cross is viewed as protection from evil spirits

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

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

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

A.   religious persecution; war and terrorism

B.   social control; religious persecution

C.   sexism in religion; social control

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

A.   political systems

B.   economic systems

C.   capitalism

D.   social institutions

A.   Charismatic

B.   Traditional

C.   Democracy

D.   Rational-Legal

A.   is a product of racial differences

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

C.   contributes to social inequality

D.   reflects genetic differences among people

A.   Organization

B.   Belief

C.   Profane

D.   Ritual and prayer

A.   Women are having more children nowadays.

B.   Cohabitation rates continue to pummel.

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

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

A.   solidarity

B.   the sociological imagination

C.   social control

D.   sociology

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

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

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

D.   School construction projects have dropped significantly.

A.   pay more in taxes.

B.   increase the demand for social services.

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

D.   have no significant impact in society.

A.   oligarchy.

B.   authoritarian government.

C.   dictatorship.

D.   democracy.

A.   basic human needs

B.   the pursuit of profit

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 new approach to work and money that emphasizes investment to make profit.

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

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

B.   It leads to severe social inequalities.

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

D.   It promotes immorality through conspicuous consumption.