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1Marks: 4With regard to biological or genetic differences between people, sociologists have found that:Choose one answer.     Question2Marks: 4The faith of Americans tends to be more broad than deep. This is evidenced by which of the following results from research?Choose one answer.     Question3Marks: 4The examples of more and more people bowling and eating alone are used to highlight which of the following?Choose one answer.     Question4Marks: 4In which two early social movements were religious groups involved?Choose one answer.     Question5Marks: 4Taking into account students’ family backgrounds, ____________ schools tend to outperform ____________ schools in preparing children academically.Choose one answer.     Question6Marks: 4A society of commerce in which the maximization of profit is the primary incentive for employment.Answer: Question7Marks: 4Which of the following is Durkheim’s term meaning a sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we can no longer reasonably expect life to be more or less predictable?Choose one answer.     Question8Marks: 4Tomas transfers to a new school when his family moves to a new district, and he is placed in a classroom with students who have slightly higher average math grades than he does. Tomas is concerned that he will fall behind. Based on the research, what is the most likely outcome?Choose one answer.     Question9Marks: 4Due to growing anti-Americanism in the Middle East, new diplomatic efforts have included all of the following EXCEPT:Choose one answer.     Question10Marks: 4Which type of social solidarity is based upon the sameness of the individual parts and people in a society, according to Durkheim?Choose one answer.     Question11Marks: 4For some followers of religion, embodied practices make the religious experience feel more authentic and real. Which of the following is NOT an embodied practice?Choose one answer.     Question12Marks: 4In the 1960s, Peter Berger wrote that pluralism would cause a ____________ in which religion would lose its legitimacy, as the ____________ would come apart. The result would be psychological malaise and a loss of meaning to lifeChoose one answer.     Question13Marks: 4What percentage of Americans claim a religious affiliation?Choose one answer.     Question14Marks: 4When the Bureau of Indian Affairs attempted to “civilize” Native American children by taking them away from their homes to reduce the influence of their families, educating them in boarding schools, and forbidding them to speak languages other than English, it was attempting to ____________ the children to dominant American values.Choose one answer.     Question15Marks: 4A married couple and their firstborn child are a type of group known as:Choose one answer.     Question16Marks: 4According to Levitt and Donahue’s 2001 research, which factor “was one of the greatest crime-lowering factors in American history”?Choose one answer.     Question17Marks: 4The fact that relatively weak ties that are not reinforced through indirect paths often turn out to be the most valuable, especially in job searches, is known as:Choose one answer.     Question18Marks: 4A politically based system of stratification characterized by unlimted social mobility is a caste system.Answer: Question19Marks: 4Which theory explains how social context and social cues impact the way individuals act; specifically, whether or not local, informal norms allow acts such as vandalizing an abandoned car?Choose one answer.     Question20Marks: 4The idea that everyone should have an equal starting point is the equality of condition and not the equality of outcome.Answer: Question21Marks: 4Which of the following statements is FALSE?Choose one answer.     Question22Marks: 4Which fictional 1950s television family is highlighted at the beginning of Chapter 7?Choose one answer.     Question23Marks: 4As discussed in Chapter 7, which group of women is least likely to get an abortion?Choose one answer.     Question24Marks: 4A set of stories that explain the content of a particular relationship are known as a:Choose one answer.     Question25Marks: 4Marital rates among blacks in the United States have declined sinceChoose one answer.