Which of the following statements accurately describes the importance of groups in social life ?

A. The social support and feedback of others hinders us as we try to confront difficulties
B. Accidents alcoholism psychiatric disorders tuberculosis and even death rates are higher among people who live with more than seven others in a group living situation
C. The most effective strategy for undergraduate success is to abstain from group interaction because it slows down one’s individual learning process
D. Support groups have been found to add an average of 18 months to the lives of women in advanced stages of cancer

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Those aspects of social life that have to do with order, stability and social organization that allow societies and groups to hold together and endure are called______________?
A. social statics
B. social dynamics
C. social absolutes
D. constructed reality
Prohibiting intermarriage across ethnic groups the physical separation of groups and restrictions on contact between ethnic groups are examples of______________?
A. resource allocation
B. ethnocentrism
C. discrimination
D. group closure
Which of the following conducted observation research on two groups of high school males-the Saints and the Roughnecks-and concluded that social class played an important role in the varying fortunes of the two groups ?
A. Richard Quincy
B. Edwin Sutherland
C. Emile Durkheim
D. William Chambliss
What term describes the fixed and inflexible characterizations of social groups ?
A. stereotypes
B. prejudice
C. scapegoating
D. discrimination
Which statement below most accurately describes the global unemployment rate ?
A. the unemployment rate has decreased significantly since the 1970s
B. the unemployment rate remains historically low
C. the unemployment rate remains historically high
D. the unemployment rate in not known
Which term describes the process whereby religion loses its influence over various spheres of social life ?
A. secularization
B. evangelicalism
C. fundamentalism
D. alienation
Which term describes the process whereby religion loses its influence over various spheres of social life ?
A. secularization
B. evangelicalism
C. fundamentalism
D. alienation
Merton describes types of response to a situation where there are widely socially endorsed values but limited means of achieving them Which of his types describes an acceptance of the values but willingness to use any means to achieve them ?
A. conformists
B. innovators
C. ritualists
D. retreatists
Merton describes types of response to a situation where there are widely socially endorsed values but limited means of achieving them. Which of his types describes an acceptance of the values but willingness to use any means to achieve them?
A. Conformists
B. innovators
C. ritualists
D. retrealists
Which of the following -perhaps the first sociologist to recognize the critical importance of religion in human societies stressed the social impact of religion ?
A. Max Weber
B. Emile Durkheim
C. Karl Marx
D. Talcott Parsons