A+ Answers of the following Questions

1. One current trend in parenting is that women are

A. delaying childbearing.
B. placing careers over children.
C. much more frequently choosing to remain childless.
D. having children at a younger age.

2. According to Parsons, illness generally

A. is acceptable for men, but not women.
B. is functional.
C. threatens social stability.
D. is dysfunctional.

3. In all cultures the family has been assigned responsibility for each of the following, except

A. economic responsibility for dependents.
B. prohibition of premarital sexuality.
C. socialization of the young.
D. regulation of sexual behavior.

1. Which of the following best explains why poverty is associated with poorer health and lower life expectancy?
A. Poor people live in violent, crime-ridden neighborhoods.
B. Poor people are less likely to care about their health.
C. Most poor people are both unemployed and addicted to illegal substances.

D. Poor people can't afford medical care.

2. According to your textbook, adolescents
A. experience a great deal of role strain.
B. are expected to make major contributions to society.
C. generally begin dating at around age 17.
D. will generally look back at the period as the best time of their lives.

3. Which statement is most consistent with Parson's sick role concept?

A. People suffering illness should seek medical advice if they can afford it.
B. Employees suffering from a cold aren't normally expected to show up for work.

C. As a rule, people aren't held responsible for their illness or disease.
D. Husbands must always assume homemaking duties when their wife is ill.

1. Having compared their theoretical perspectives, you're likely to recognize that _________ analysis most explicitly implies a negative critique of Christianity.

A. Durkheim's
B. Weber's
C. Marx's

D. Stark's

2. Which of the following is the definition of secularization?
A. The division of religious practices and beliefs into segments or sections
B. The process whereby a religious person becomes a fundamentalist
C. The process of transferring things, ideas, or events from the sacred to the profane

D. The process that religions go through to define what's sacred and what's profane

3. The most important social factor affecting mortality is

A. location of residence.
B. race.
C. genetics.
D. standard of living.

1. According to your textbook, marital happiness is negatively affected by

A. having the husband take an active role in child raising.
B. the presence of children.
C. the absence of children.
D. the romantic notion of "happily ever after."

2. Polygamy, which permits a man to have multiple wives, is reported as the ideal form of marriage in many societies across the globe. In these societies,

A. there's equality between men and women.
B. there's tremendous social inequality between men.
C. there's little social inequality of any kind.
D. women generally revolt due to jealousy.

3. At the micro level, sociologists of education are most likely to be interested in knowing about

A. the inadequacy of school budgets.
B. how the school experiences of working-class and middle-class students differ.
C. trends in adopting art and music course offerings across the country.
D. trends in SAT scores.

1. One function of the schools is cultural reproduction, which means

A. teaching art and music.
B. controlling young people and their sex lives.
C. transmitting culture from one generation to the next.
D. producing new knowledge.

2. The chief difference between a conflict and a structural-functional interpretation of American education is that
A. functionalists see no negative side-effects.
B. functionalists recognize dysfunctions.
C. conflict theorists don't recognize that education benefits anybody.
D. functionalists are more positive about the reproduction of culture and society.

3. Regarding cults and sects, which statement is most accurate?

A. Cults are to religiosity as sects are to secularism.
B. In the long run, sects either vanish or become church denominations.
C. A sect is a religious organization that originated as a cult.
D. Scientologists adhere to beliefs that are similar to those of any other sect.