Question Number: 249

The concept "political economy" refers to:Answer Question 23 out of 3 pointsA totalitarian political system:Answer Question 33 out of 3 pointsPolitics is a social institution that is defined in terms of a society's:Answer Question 40 out of 3 pointsIndustrialization increases the importance of which type of authority?Answer Question 53 out of 3 pointsIn the 2008 presidential election, about what percentage of registered voters actually went to the polls?Answer Question 63 out of 3 pointsWhich of the following concepts refers to the formal organization that directs the political life of a society?Answer Question 73 out of 3 pointsPeople who attract followers, including Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, display:Answer Question 83 out of 3 pointsIn Max Weber's view, monarchy claims legitimacy based on:Answer Question 93 out of 3 pointsWhich of the following statements about political parties in the United States is true?Answer Question 103 out of 3 pointsTerrorism refers to:Answer Question 113 out of 3 pointsJessie Bernard claimed that marriage:Answer Question 123 out of 3 pointsToday's baby boomers are often called the "sandwich generation" because:Answer Question 133 out of 3 pointsIn the United States, family violence is:Answer Question 143 out of 3 pointsIn the United States, a recent trend involving parenting is that:Answer Question 153 out of 3 pointsResearch shows that growing up in a single-parent family:Answer Question 160 out of 3 pointsWhat is the effect of industrialization on the number of children in a typical family?Answer Question 173 out of 3 pointsIn traditional regions of many lower-income countries, such as Sri Lanka, marriage:Answer Question 183 out of 3 pointsTo which region of the world would you travel if you wanted to visit many countries where the law permits polygamy?Answer Question 193 out of 3 pointsIn 1989, which country became the first to permit legal same-sex partnerships with many of the benefits of marriage?Answer Question 203 out of 3 pointsWhich of the following categories of the U.S. population has the greatest share of female-headed households?

Question Number: 277

Sociological analysis of religion is concerned with:Answer Question 22 out of 2 pointsThe concept "karma" refers to:Answer Question 32 out of 2 pointsKarl Marx believed that religion:Answer Question 42 out of 2 pointsWhich of the following concepts refers to a religious organization that is largely outside a society’s cultural traditions?Answer Question 50 out of 2 pointsOn national surveys, about what percentage of people in the United States claim to believe in a divine power?Answer Question 60 out of 2 pointsWhich of the following concepts refers to the fusion of Christian principles with political activism, often Marxist in character?Answer Question 72 out of 2 pointsA majority of people in which global region are Muslims?Answer Question 82 out of 2 pointsThe concept of sacred refers to what is:Answer Question 90 out of 2 pointsWhich of the following nations stands out as the most religious of all high-income countries?Answer Question 100 out of 2 pointsIn the United States, a majority of people (52.1 percent) claim to be:Answer Question 112 out of 2 pointsAs income goes up among U.S. families, we find that:Answer Question 120 out of 2 pointsIn the United States today, what percentage of people over the age of twenty-five have earned a four-year college degree?Answer Question 132 out of 2 pointsIn the United States today,:Answer Question 142 out of 2 pointsAt what point in our history had a majority of adults in the United States earned a high-school diploma?Answer Question 150 out of 2 pointsWhich of the following statements applies the symbolic-interaction approach to schooling?Answer Question 162 out of 2 pointsFor the United States as a whole, about what percentage of people between ages sixteen and twenty-four drop out before completing high school?Answer Question 170 out of 2 pointsResearch suggests that the level of functional illiteracy in the United States may be about what share of U.S. children?Answer Question 180 out of 2 pointsCharter schools are:Answer Question 190 out of 2 pointsWhich of the following correctly states the effect of additional schooling on average personal income?Answer Question 202 out of 2 pointsThe major reason that schooling is limited in lower-income nations is that:

Question Number: 278

The founder of Buddhism was which of the following people?Answer Question 22 out of 2 pointsWhich of the following is the oldest of the world religions discussed in the text?Answer Question 32 out of 2 pointsConfucianism is closely linked to the traditional culture of:Answer Question 42 out of 2 pointsA majority of people in which global region are Muslims?Answer Question 52 out of 2 pointsPolytheism refers to:Answer Question 62 out of 2 pointsWhich of the following concepts refers to a religious organization that is largely outside a society’s cultural traditions?Answer Question 72 out of 2 pointsAll through the South, the largest number of Protestants are of which denomination?Answer Question 82 out of 2 pointsWhich of the following typically forms as a breakaway group from some established religious organization?Answer Question 92 out of 2 pointsThe priesthood, a specialized occupation in charge of a large religious organization, first developed in which type of societies?Answer Question 102 out of 2 pointsThe world's largest concentration of Jews (6 million) is found in:Answer Question 112 out of 2 pointsIn Great Britain, regardless of their scores on achievement examinations, the children of well-to-do families:Answer Question 122 out of 2 pointsCharter schools are:Answer Question 132 out of 2 pointsIn 2005, men accounted for what share of all U.S. undergraduate college students?Answer Question 140 out of 2 pointsPeople over the age of twenty-five now account for about what percentage of all people in U.S. degree-granting programs?Answer Question 152 out of 2 pointsThe fact that, historically, schooling has been mostly for elites is evident in the fact that the word "school" has the same root as the Greek word for:Answer Question 162 out of 2 pointsWhich of the following is a latent function of schooling?Answer Question 172 out of 2 pointsFor the United States as a whole, about what percentage of people between ages sixteen and twenty-four drop out before completing high school?Answer Question 180 out of 2 pointsWhich of the following statements applies the symbolic-interaction approach to schooling?Answer Question 192 out of 2 pointsWhich of the following categories of the U.S. population has the highest dropout rate?Answer Question 202 out of 2 pointsIn low-income nations, most education is a matter of:

Question Number: 279

In the United States, a majority of people (52.1 percent) claim to be:Answer Question 23 out of 3 pointsWhich of the following nations stands out as the most religious of all high-income countries?Answer Question 33 out of 3 pointsWhich of the following is a correct example of civil religion?Answer Question 43 out of 3 pointsWhich of the following typically forms as a breakaway group from some established religious organization?Answer Question 53 out of 3 pointsFaith is a way of knowing based on:Answer Question 63 out of 3 pointsThe priesthood, a specialized occupation in charge of a large religious organization, first developed in which type of societies?Answer Question 73 out of 3 pointsBuddhists are a majority of people in which of the following countries?Answer Question 83 out of 3 pointsIn his analysis of Protestantism and the rise of capitalism, Max Weber stated that Protestantism:Answer Question 93 out of 3 pointsWhich of the following concepts was used by Emile Durkheim to refer to an object in the natural world collectively defined as sacred?Answer Question 103 out of 3 pointsFollowing Emile Durkheim, the ordinary elements of everyday life are correctly considered to be:Answer Question 113 out of 3 pointsIn the United States today, what percentage of people over the age of twenty-five have earned a four-year college degree?Answer Question 123 out of 3 pointsIn low-income nations, most education is a matter of:Answer Question 133 out of 3 pointsOne result of tracking in schools is that:Answer Question 143 out of 3 pointsWhich of the following is a latent function of schooling?Answer Question 153 out of 3 pointsIn Great Britain, regardless of their scores on achievement examinations, the children of well-to-do families:Answer Question 163 out of 3 pointsJonathan Kozol criticizes the U.S. educational system for:Answer Question 173 out of 3 pointsCharter schools are:Answer Question 183 out of 3 pointsAssume that you support the school choice movement. What are you likely to say is the reason that U.S. public schools perform poorly?Answer Question 193 out of 3 pointsThe problem of functional illiteracy means that:Answer Question 203 out of 3 pointsAt what point in our history had a majority of adults in the United States earned a high-school diploma?

Question Number: 281

The concept "political economy" refers to:Answer Question 23 out of 3 pointsA totalitarian political system:Answer Question 33 out of 3 pointsPolitics is a social institution that is defined in terms of a society's:Answer Question 40 out of 3 pointsIndustrialization increases the importance of which type of authority?Answer Question 53 out of 3 pointsIn the 2008 presidential election, about what percentage of registered voters actually went to the polls?Answer Question 63 out of 3 pointsWhich of the following concepts refers to the formal organization that directs the political life of a society?Answer Question 73 out of 3 pointsPeople who attract followers, including Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, display:Answer Question 83 out of 3 pointsIn Max Weber's view, monarchy claims legitimacy based on:Answer Question 93 out of 3 pointsWhich of the following statements about political parties in the United States is true?Answer Question 103 out of 3 pointsTerrorism refers to:Answer Question 113 out of 3 pointsJessie Bernard claimed that marriage:Answer Question 123 out of 3 pointsToday's baby boomers are often called the "sandwich generation" because:Answer Question 133 out of 3 pointsIn the United States, family violence is:Answer Question 143 out of 3 pointsIn the United States, a recent trend involving parenting is that:Answer Question 153 out of 3 pointsResearch shows that growing up in a single-parent family:Answer Question 160 out of 3 pointsWhat is the effect of industrialization on the number of children in a typical family?Answer Question 173 out of 3 pointsIn traditional regions of many lower-income countries, such as Sri Lanka, marriage:Answer Question 183 out of 3 pointsTo which region of the world would you travel if you wanted to visit many countries where the law permits polygamy?Answer Question 193 out of 3 pointsIn 1989, which country became the first to permit legal same-sex partnerships with many of the benefits of marriage?Answer Question 203 out of 3 pointsWhich of the following categories of the U.S. population has the greatest share of female-headed households?

Question Number: 283

Despite Thailand’s economic boom since the 1960s, continuing rural poverty has driven many young women to participate in:Response Feedback:Page 141 Question 16 In Latin America _____________ was the first nation to allow women to vote and __________ was the last. Response Feedback:Page 143Question 17 Political participation at the regional or national levels is difficult for Third World women because: Question 18Since the early 1990's, Third World countries have equaled or surpassed highly developed nations in percentage of women in legislatures through: Question 19 Contrary to modernization theory but true to radical feminist analysis, socioeconomic modernization has often adversely affect women in Third World countries. Examples include: Response Feedback:Page 159 Question 20 One of the paradoxes of the spread of democracy in the Third World and gender equality is: Question 1All of these factors contributed to the changing role of women in the Third World except: Response Feedback: Page 133Question 2 Like their counter parts in the developed world, women are over represented in which professions: Response Feedback: Page 133Question 3 Evidence of extreme gender inequality and exploitation in the Third World include: Response Feedback: Page 133Question 4 Rape and gang rape is widespread in which country? Response Feedback: Page 134Question 5 Despise laws passed in Third World countries to stop atrocities against women: Response Feedback: Page 134Question 6 A major problem for women in LDCs is : Response Feedback: Page 135Question 7 Based on World Bank statistics, which regions have the lowest female literacy rates, compared with males? Question 8 Which country has the lowest female literacy rates, compared with males? Response Feedback:Page 136 Question 9 Which developed country has the lowest gender empowerment in terms of income and political power?Response Feedback:Page 137 Question 10Radical Feminist would most likely agree with _______________ theorists who emphasize that the spread of capitalism has widened the gender gap for disadvantaged women. Response Feedback:Page 138Question 11Rural Third world women contribute ______________ of family food in most countries. Response Feedback:Page 139 Question 12In Africa, the number of males available to participate in agricultural work has declined because of:Response Feedback:Page 139 Question 13 Government planners often neglect the important role women play in working family farms by clinging to: Response Feedback:Page 139 Question 14 Since the 1980s economic boom in Asia, young unmarried women are favored for factory jobs because:Arrow right

Question Number: 284

Discuss whether or not the extension of foreign aid has successfully reduced poverty and the incidence of warfare in the selected country. Support your response with examples.Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.Assignment 1: The Effects of War and Peace on Foreign AidWrite a three to four (3-4) page research paper in which you:Assess the positive and negative effects that peace and war, respectively, have on the distribution of foreign aid in the developing country that you have selected. Support your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you have cited.Analyze the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by warfare.