Human capital theory explains gender differences in wages
a. as created by the different occupations in which men and women work.
b. by taking into consideration women's tendency to drop out of the workforce in order to have children.
c. as the result of individual characteristics of workers.
d. as being overstated.
Question 2What is necessary in order to draw the most accurate conclusions about a population while only studying part of it?
a. A sample that is at least 10 percent of the population
b. A representative sample
c. A group of people from the population who volunteers for the study
d. A sample that is at least half of the population
Question 3The labor force participation rate for White women
a. has only recently reached the rate for women of color.
b. has always been much higher than that of women of color.
c. has been stagnant for the past 50 years.
d. is significantly lower than that for women of color.
Question 4A sociologist wants to find out what the attitudes toward drinking are among the students at the university where she works. What would be considered the population for this study?
a. A subset of the student population who will answer a questionnaire
b. The entire student body at that university
c. All of the university students in the U.S.
d. Everyone on that university campus, including students and non-students
Question 5Until recently, matriarchal societies have not been widely noted or discussed in the social sciences. Which of the following explains this?
a. Sociologists agree that matriarchal societies have never existed.
b. Matriarchal societies existed prior to Christianity, but there are not contemporary matriarchal societies.
c. The identification of matriarchal societies has been obscured by the application of Western ideas about power.
d. There is no interest in matriarchal power within the social sciences.
Question 6A _____ is a large collection of people, groups, or categories that a researcher studies and about which generalizations are made.
a. collectivity
b. sample
c. population
d. subject pool
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