In which century was anorexia first recognised as a disorder?
Correct answer B. 19th
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Which of the great world religions has the most recent origins?
Correct answer D. Islam
Which accounts of the value of education stress that it lets people think freely and rationally, making social progress and innovation possible?
Correct answer C. Modernist
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What does the term ‘informal economy’ describe?
Correct answer C. Transactions outside the sphere of regular employment
What is occupational gender segregation used to explain?
Correct answer C. The allocation of men and women to different types of job
In a patriarchal family, who makes the major decisions?
Correct answer B. The male head of the family who wields all the powers
What do my husband and my daughters make up for me?
Correct answer B. Family of procreation
Through what do we internalise the norms of our culture and come to share its values, goals and sentiments?
Correct answer C. Group activities
Which statement about polygyny is correct?
Correct answer D. Tends to be favoured where large families are advantageous and women make substantial contributions to subsistence
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We are not equally involved in all our in-groups. To measure the degree of closeness or acceptance felt towards other groups, Bogardus developed which concept?
Correct answer B. Social distance
What does research on the family life course indicate?
Correct answer B. Women with a first child are more likely than women without a child to report that their husbands do not pay enough attention to them
What are the groups in which we come to know people closely as individual personalities called?
Correct answer C. Primary groups
Which statement about care for the elderly is correct?
Correct answer B. Is provided by the sandwich generation
What are secondary groups like?
Correct answer B. Both a & b
Aalia, aged 7, lives in a private home with her parents, her grandmother and her aunt. What type of family is Aalia’s?
Correct answer B. Extended family
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By what are primary groups judged?
Correct answer A. Emotional Satisfaction
What do sociologists call the way people act towards each other when they meet?
Correct answer A. Social interaction
Where is personality formed?
Correct answer B. Primary group
What does the ‘looking-glass self’ essentially explain?
Correct answer E. Our imagination of how others see us
In a Gemeinschaft social system, what are most relationships like?
Correct answer B. Personal or traditional