Author: Anonymous

________ is defined as the average number of years a person born today may expect to live.

In the U.S., people tend to equate marriage with ________. In contrast to this, in many countries and cultures around the world, people practice ________.

________ encourage followers to lead a moral life by accepting the four Noble Truths: 1) life is suffering, 2) suffering arises from attachment to desires, 3) suffering ceases when attachment to desires ceases, and 4) freedom from suffering is possible by following the “middle way.”

One symbolic interaction theory is called ________, which focuses on the shared community created by the elderly when they are excluded (due to age), voluntarily or involuntarily, from participating in other groups.

________ is defined as the average number of years a person born today may expect to live.

________ was passed in 1990 to address how people in the United States with disabilities were often excluded from opportunities and social institutions many of us take for granted.

The religion of ________ was developed by Master Kong, who lived in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 is sometimes called ________ for its most noted advocate, and represents large-scale federal reform of the United States’ healthcare system.

Functionalists suggest that ________, are the intended and visible functions of education, and latent (or secondary) functions, which are the hidden and unintended functions.

Other studies have focused on the ________ of the elderly in an attempt to discover the causes of elder abuse. Researchers identified factors that increased the likelihood of the perpetration of abuse against those in their care, including inexperience, having other demands such as jobs, caring for children, living full-time with the dependent elder, and experiencing high stress, isolation, and lack of support.