According to ________, the sick role exemption is temporary and relative to the severity of the illness. The exemption also requires that a physician must certify that the illness is genuine.

China is about to enter a time of an

The United States’ older adult population can be divided into three life-stage subgroups: the ________ (approximately sixty-five to seventy-four years old), the ________ (ages seventy-five to eighty-four years old), and the ________ (over age eighty-five).

Given a public education system that is primarily funded ________, we see a wide disparity of funding per student throughout the country.

Reported in the U.S. Census Current Population Survey of 2013, research indicates that ________ of people in the United States have no health insurance at all.

A ________ is a group of people who share a statistical or demographic trait.

________ suggests that that our world is socially constructed, so these theorists study the representations and interactions of everyday life so as to understand their meanings.

Another symbolic interactionist theory on aging is called ________, or the idea that as people age, they transcend the limited views of life they held in earlier times.

________ highlight the role of power in family life and contends that the family is often not a haven but rather an arena where power struggles can occur. This exercise of power often entails the performance of family status roles such as the enforcement of rules from parent to child.

Intimate partner violence often starts as ________ and then escalates to other forms or combinations of abuse.