The Coleman study of adolescent societies found that is/are extremely important to boys and is/are extremely important to girls.
a. athletics; social success with boys
b. social success with girls; social success with boys
c. being good looking; good grades
d. good grades; athletics
Question 2_________ is much more common among women than men.
a. Alzheimer's disease
b. Depression
c. Osteoporosis
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
Question 3Sociologist James Coleman was interested in the adolescent , or those achievements resulting in acceptance into the crowd.
a. status system
b. self-fulfilling prophecy
c. tracking
d. academic achievement
Question 4What are the findings regarding heart attacks and gender?
a. Men are more likely to suffer heart attacks.
b. More women than men die each year from heart disease.
c. Among those who survive a heart attack, more women die in the next year compared with men.
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
Question 5Sociologist James Coleman argues that cut adolescents off from the rest of society and forced them to spend the majority of the day with their own age group.
a. the historical shift in job training (from the family to the school)
b. the emergence of a consumer-oriented society
c. the breakdown of the family
d. the widespread use of the automobile
Question 6Critics of sociobiology assert that:
a. cultural factors have to be accounted for among nonhuman primates.
b. sex differences have no biological basis.
c. gender differences do not exist among nonhuman primates.
d. it is not valid to generalize from animal to human behavior.
e. none of the above
Question 7The emergence of an adolescent society can be traced to
a. Brown vs. Board of Education.
b. tracking.
c. industrialization.
d. the rise of TV.