25. Joe is a case manager for a group home. Lou is a man in his late sixties with developmental disabilities who lives at the group home. Joe needs to seek medical coverage for Lou. Which government program will Joe likely seek out?

45. A sociologist and biologist work together to investigate possible epigenetic marks for cancer in a cancer patient. To do so, they are looking at both the patient’s genes and

16. One of the major reasons that for 60 years it was common practice for Native Americans to be placed in boarding schools was

29. In the Sociological Conversations interview we watched in Module 15, Rob Willer talks about research he and his colleagues have done on altruism. What has Willer concluded about the duality of generosity? Although some altruistic behavior  

21. Until places like Somaliland are recognized by other states and international institutions such as the United Nations, they will remain

1. According to Émile Durkheim, one of the key functions of religion is that it fosters  

22. Students at the high school decided to pool their money to buy winter clothes for the city’s homeless population. They didn’t benefit from this action individually, but their city was better off for it. Each student was engaging in  

17. When asked if they attend church services nearly every week or more, about 29 percent of Americans say they do. But when daily diaries of people’s activities are examined, rates of church attendance are much lower. This problem of self-reporting positive behaviors is known within sociology as  

20. Sociologists observe that religion can serve some negative social functions. One of these negative functions may be that it can  

In 2019, Thalia purchased land for $900,000 and lists title in the names of her daughters as follows: “April and Theresa, joint tenants with right of survivorship.” In 2021, April and Theresa purchase an apartment building for $1 million as equal tenants in common; April furnished $400,000 and Theresa furnished $600,000 of the cost. April died before Theresa in 2024 when the land is worth $1.5 million and the apartment building is worth $2 million. One of the results of these transactions is: