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A set of sacred beliefs so commonly accepted by most people that it becomes part of the national culture.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
2.
An authority based on appeals to the past and a long-established way of doing things.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
3.
Talcott Parsons’s theory that men and women perform their sex roles as breadwinners and wives/mothers, respectively, because the nuclear family is the ideal arrangement in modern societies, fulfilling the function of reproducing workers.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
4.
The invisible lid on a women’s climb up the employment ladder is called the glass ceiling.
5.
The promotional ride men take to the top of a work organization, especially in feminized jobs is called the glass escalator.
6.
This occurs when a person’s sex is the basis for judgment, discrimination, and hatred against him or her.
7.
A line of thought that explains social behavior in terms of biological givens.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
8.
A society where status and mobility are based on individual attributes, ability, and achievement.
9.
A political ideology of a classless society, in which the means of production are shared through state ownership and in which rewards are not tied to productivity but need.
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A general movement away from religiosity and spiritual belief toward a rational, scientific orientation, a trend adopted by industrialized nations in the form of separation of church and state.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
11.
The adherence to certain principles to lead a moral life, as in Buddhism and Taoism.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
12.
True by virtue of its own logic alone.
13.
Clothes, Cars, and Books are all examples of ___________.
14.
The more often a person has received the benefit in the recent past, the less valuable that benefit becomes.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
Deprivation/Satiation Proposition
15.
The front is the act that we put on.
16.
The more valuable the benefit is to the participant, the more often the cost will be paid by the individual.
A. 
B. 
C. 
Deprivation/Satiation Proposition
D. 
17.
Success Proposition is the more often an action is followed by a particular benefit, the more likely an actor will be to repeat the action.
18.
_________ is a process by which an enemy or an “other” is created.
19.
A thought that explains social phenomena in terms of natural ones.
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B. 
C. 
D. 
20.
Hegemonic Masculinity reffers to a dominant and privileged, if invisible, category of men.
21.
__________ occurs when only a handful of firms exist in a particular market.
22.
Describes the things of mundane, everyday life.
23.
________ is the belief that spirits roam the natural world as in totemism.
24.
The authority based on the supernatural appeal of an individual leader.
25.
With a Legal-rational Authority the rules _______.