Karp, for the article on American Culture, conducted
a. an experiment.
b. content analysis.
c. interviews.
d. secondary analysis.
Question 2The mother-at-home father-at-work family
a. has been the standard throughout U.S. history until the women's movement encouraged women to enter the workforce.
b. represents the majority of families in the U.S.
c. emerged as a new model of family in the early nineteenth century.
d. is, according to Skolnick and Skolnick, the best type of family for childrearing.
Question 3Communities are defined as organizations that
a. provide for almost all of the needs of their members.
b. are without ongoing interaction.
c. have written rules.
d. are outside society.
Question 4Routinization
a. encourages sanctioned massacres.
b. discourages sanctioned massacres.
c. has little or no effect on the probability of sanctioned massacres.
Question 5What force is most important in women's efforts to reduce patriarchy?
a. control of economic resources
b. creation of a feminine mystique
c. ability to control household labor
d. ability to file for divorce
e. none of the above
Question 6Which best describes the kinship system in the United States?
a. nuclear units, bilateral descent
b. lineages, bilateral descent
c. nuclear units, patrilineal descent
d. nuclear units, matrilineal descent
e. lineages, matrilineal descent
Question 7The German sociologist Ferdinand Toennies wrote that religion would cede supremacy to
a. politics
b. education
c. profanity
d. science
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