What are associations that members can join and leave freely called?
Correct answer D. Voluntary organisations
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What term refers to applying rules and regulations in an unimaginative, mechanical way?
Correct answer B. Trained incapacity
What do conflict theorists argue about organisations?
Correct answer B. Organisational goals reflect the priorities of those who occupy the top positions
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What does the term ‘nuclear family’ mean?
Correct answer B. A two-generation unit of parents and their children
To what can the social construction of childhood be traced?
Correct answer D. All of the above
Why does marriage in the West seem to be in decline?
Correct answer C. Many people are cohabiting in long term relationships
Why is it hard to establish the true scale of domestic violence?
Correct answer D. There is a large dark figure of unreported incidents
According to recent findings from across Europe, which statement best describes cohabitation?
Correct answer C. An experimental stage before marriage
What term describes a society in which a woman may have more than one husband at a time, while a man may have only one wife?
Correct answer C. Polyandry
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Which term describes societies in which the family name and property are passed down through the male line?
Correct answer D. Patrilineal
What is created by a network of roles in which each person accepts certain duties towards others?
Correct answer B. Social Order
LaPiere saw social control mainly as a process arising from the individual’s what?
Correct answer B. Need for group acceptance
Where is informal control found?
Correct answer B. Primary groups
Much leadership and authority depends on skilfully manipulating the group as what?
Correct answer B. Control device
What is a person who fails to comply with the rules and regulations of society usually called?
Correct answer B. Deviant
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What is a society that lacks consistent guidelines for people to learn and follow called?
Correct answer C. Anomic Society
In which kind of mobility system are ideas of equal opportunity irrelevant to deciding which individuals occupy which statuses?
Correct answer C. Closed
In the past, how was a woman’s mobility usually decided?
Correct answer C. Status of their husbands
How do career and mobility patterns for men and women compare?
Correct answer A. Growing more nearly alike
Who can experience social mobility?
Correct answer B. Individuals or entire groups