Sociology Final
About half of U.S. adults are now college graduates.
False
Another name for the extended family is the conjugal family.
False
Around the world, most marriages have been polygamous.
False
Because the United States is so rich, almost 90 percent of students attend private schools.
False
Exogamy out of a social category means that parents of similar social position pass on their standing to their children.
False
Fecundity is a simple and useful way to measure population increase.
False
In India, fewer boys than girls reach secondary school.
False
On average, completing a college degree adds about $50,000 to a person's lifetime earnings.
False
Parents and children form what sociologists call the extended family
False
People's movement out of a territory is called immigration.
False
Research indicates that a majority of U.S. married males are unfaithful to their wives at some point in their marriage.
False
The average life expectancy for U.S. children born today is about sixty years.
False
The crude death rate for the United States is very high by world standards.
False
The crude death rate is the most widely used measure of a society's population decline.
False
Before they reach the age of 18, half of U.S. children live with only one parent for some period of time.
True
Bilateral descent is found in societies that have a relatively high level of gender equality.
True
Demography is the study of the size and composition of a society's population.
True
Endogamy refers to the pattern of people marrying partners from the same social category.
True
In the United States, schooling is an important path to upward social mobility.
True
Jessie Bernard claimed that women would be happier in marriage if men did not expect them to do almost all of the housework.
True
Johnathan Kozol considers tracking as one of the "savage inequalities" of U.S. education.
True
Kinship is based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.
True
More students graduate from high school in Japan than in the United States.
True
Most people migrate due to a combination of "push-pull" factors.
True
People in the United States today are more accepting of divorce than they were a century ago.
True
Polyandry unites one female with two or more males in marriage.
True
Providing schooling is one way our society increases equality of opportunity.
True
Regardless of the level of a school's funding, students who benefit from more "cultural capital" would still do better.
True
The crude birth rate in North America is lover than that for Asia.
True
The dominant residential family form in the United States is neolocality.
True
The extent of schooling in a society is closely tied to its level of economic development.
True
The forced transportation of 10 million slaves from Africa to the Americas in an example of involuntary migration.
True
The infant mortality rate for African Americans is more than twice as high as it is for white people.
True
Three out of four people in the United States who divorce remarry at some point.
True
To calculate a crude birth rate, divide the number of live births in an year into the total population and multiply the result of 1000.
True
