A.   a group of friends living in different cities

B.   any cohabitating couple

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.   there is less stress in such arrangements

C.   of the decrease in the level of stigma

D.   many couples can not afford to get married

A.   socialization into a bureaucratic society

B.   the identification of potential marriage partners

C.   the provision of day-care facilities

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

C.   Many parents today are working parents.

D.   Cohabitation has emerged as a common lifestyle.

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

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

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

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

A.   exogamy

B.   endogamy

C.   propinquity

D.   heterogamy

A.   raising delinquent children.

B.   regulating sexual behavior

C.   providing care and protection

D.   socializing children

A.   are as effective as opposite-sex parents

B.   are much more effective as opposite-sex parents

C.   never divorce

D.   are not as effective as opposite-sex parents

A.   middle-school children

B.   children less than one

C.   adolescents

D.   age fifteen and older

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

C.   believed that religion was important in establishing Worldviews

D.   believed that all religions eventionally adapt to society

A.   The Protestant Work Ethnic

B.   theism

C.   secularism

D.   monotheism

A.   Karl Marx

B.   Professor Clark

C.   Max Weber

D.   Emile Durkheim

A.   sect

B.   ritual

C.   consequence

D.   belief

A.   the hidden curriculum.

B.   manifest and latent functions of education.

C.   manifest functions of education.

D.   latent functions of education.

A.   not correlated to the future success of students.

B.   unimportant to a child's academic achievement.

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

D.   critical to a child's self perception.

A.   are invalid academically and biased against minorities.

B.   excellent predictors of future student success

C.   are now uncommon in public schools.

D.   are always valid indicators of student intelligent.

A.   the level that the market will bear

B.   the consumer who purchases the goods

C.   the central committee that decides what the country needs

D.   the industrialist who produces the goods

A.   Home-schooled students have significant behavioral problems.

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

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

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

A.   All societies have churches.

B.   It meets basic human needs.

C.   Without religion, there could be no salvation.

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 varies based on the new dual income of the couple

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

A.   The cross is viewed as protection from evil spirits

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

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

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

A.   religious persecution; war and terrorism

B.   social control; religious persecution

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

D.   sexism in religion; social control

A.   capitalism

B.   political systems

C.   economic systems

D.   social institutions

A.   Democracy

B.   Traditional

C.   Charismatic

D.   Rational-Legal

A.   is a product of racial differences

B.   reflects genetic differences among people

C.   contributes to social inequality

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

A.   Ritual and prayer

B.   Organization

C.   Profane

D.   Belief

A.   Cohabitation rates continue to pummel.

B.   Women are having more children nowadays.

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.   social control

C.   solidarity

D.   the sociological imagination

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

B.   School construction projects have dropped significantly.

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

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

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

B.   pay more in taxes.

C.   have no significant impact in society.

D.   increase the demand for social services.

A.   oligarchy.

B.   authoritarian government.

C.   democracy.

D.   dictatorship.

A.   the pursuit of profit

B.   the desire to eliminate inequality

C.   the need for efficient economic production

D.   basic human needs

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

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

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

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

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

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

C.   It leads to severe social inequalities.

D.   It promotes immorality through conspicuous consumption.