A.   a group of friends living in different cities

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

C.   any cohabitating couple

D.   a group of people living together with their pets

A.   of the decrease in the level of stigma

B.   many couples can not afford to get married

C.   partners are happier in cohabitating relationships

D.   there is less stress in such arrangements

A.   the identification of potential marriage partners

B.   socialization into a bureaucratic society

C.   the provision of day-care facilities

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

A.   Many parents today are working parents.

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

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

D.   Cohabitation has emerged as a common lifestyle.

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

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

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

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

A.   propinquity

B.   endogamy

C.   heterogamy

D.   exogamy

A.   providing care and protection

B.   socializing children

C.   regulating sexual behavior

D.   raising delinquent children.

A.   are much more effective as opposite-sex parents

B.   are not as effective as opposite-sex parents

C.   never divorce

D.   are as effective as opposite-sex parents

A.   middle-school children

B.   age fifteen and older

C.   adolescents

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 all religions eventionally adapt to society

B.   believed that religion was important in establishing Worldviews

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 always performs important functions in society

A.   monotheism

B.   secularism

C.   The Protestant Work Ethnic

D.   theism

A.   Professor Clark

B.   Karl Marx

C.   Max Weber

D.   Emile Durkheim

A.   sect

B.   ritual

C.   belief

D.   consequence

A.   manifest and latent functions of education.

B.   latent functions of education.

C.   the hidden curriculum.

D.   manifest functions of education.

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

B.   not correlated to the future success of students.

C.   critical to a child's self perception.

D.   unimportant to a child's academic achievement.

A.   excellent predictors of future student success

B.   are now uncommon in public schools.

C.   are always valid indicators of student intelligent.

D.   are invalid academically and biased against minorities.

A.   the consumer who purchases the goods

B.   the industrialist who produces the goods

C.   the central committee that decides what the country needs

D.   the level that the market will bear

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.   All societies have churches.

B.   Without religion, there could be no salvation.

C.   Religion unites all people of the world.

D.   It meets basic human needs.

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

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

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

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

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

B.   The cross is viewed as protection from evil spirits

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

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

A.   social control; religious persecution

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

C.   religious persecution; war and terrorism

D.   sexism in religion; social control

A.   economic systems

B.   capitalism

C.   political systems

D.   social institutions

A.   Rational-Legal

B.   Democracy

C.   Charismatic

D.   Traditional

A.   contributes to social inequality

B.   is a product of racial differences

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

D.   reflects genetic differences among people

A.   Organization

B.   Ritual and prayer

C.   Belief

D.   Profane

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.   the sociological imagination

B.   solidarity

C.   sociology

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.   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.   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 legitimating the social order and the inequalities that accompany it

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

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

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

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

B.   It leads to severe social inequalities.

C.   It promotes immorality through conspicuous consumption.

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