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swpotter12

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All of the following are characteristics of middle-class families EXCEPT:
 
  a. Geographic mobility.
  b. Replacement of kin with other institutions for economic support.
  c. Reliance on kin rather than friends for affective support.
  d. Lineal investment of resources between parents and children.

Question 2

Historians and sociologists cited in Aulette differ in their explanations of the decrease of equality between men and women as African American families moved from slavery to sharecropping.
 
  Some suggest that men were attempting to vindicate their manhood by asserting authority over women. Others suggest that ...
  a. the seclusion of women in nuclear families with men handling the direct contact with white landowners and merchants was a strategy to protect women from a real threat.
  b. the families were merely imitating what they saw in white families and following the norms of Anglo culture.
  c. patriarchy is the natural order of things and will happen in the absence of inhibiting factors such as slavery.
  d. the claim is a myth and African American families maintained equality.



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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

a



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