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.Management Sciences
Category: Social Institutions
Care for the elderly_____________?
A. is provided by the family in 40 percent of cases
B. falls mostly on the eldest son
C. is provided by the sandwich generation
D. none of the above
In a study of styles of grand parenting sociologists Andrew Cherlin and Frank Furstenberg Jr concluded that the most common style was for grandparents to ___________?
A. be actively involved in everyday routine care of their grandchildren and exercise substantial authority over them
B. carry on a “ritualistic”(primarily symbolic) relationship with their grandchildren
C. never see their grandchildren
D. function as “specialists in recreational care-giving”
In a patriarchal family the major decisions are taken be the____________?
A. Old men and women
B. the male or female head of the family
C. the male head of the family who wields all the powers
D. None of these
The “looking-glass self” essentially explains ?
A. our reflections on our own personal shortcomings
B. our sense of knowledge from all of the agents of socialization
C. our sense of individuality
D. our self-concept both positive and negative
E. our imagination of how others see us
Which term describes a society in which women can marry more than one husband at a time but men may marry only one wife at a time ?
A. monogamy
B. polygamy
C. polygyny
D. polyandry
Which one of the following religious denominations is most likely to report the experience of being “born again” ?
A. Baptists
B. Roman Catholics
C. Episcopalians
D. Unitarians
Which term describes families in which at least one adult has children from a previous marriage or relationship ?
A. beanpole families
B. cohabiting families
C. reconstituted families
D. horizontal families
How people behave towards one another when they meet is referred to as ___________ by sociologists ?
A. social interaction
B. sociobiology
C. social psychology
D. socialization
E. psychometrics
Marx proclaimed that religion would disappear when ?
A. a new trend of moral individualism became established
B. a socialist revolution removed the need for capitalist ideology
C. church attendance dropped below 15%
D. people came to believe more in science and technology
A set of behavioral expectations that are linked to chronological and biological age that change as we get older are referred to as____________?
A. maturational motivations
B. activity norms
C. age grades
D. continuity contingencies
E. disengagement techniques
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