Sociologists are interested in race because ______.
A. it shows the intersection of biology and society
B. cognitive function is unique to each racial group
C. people in society assign significance to it
D. charting racial differences is a valuable scientific endeavor
Answer: C
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a. the group has defined it as such. b. it causes harm to others. c. deviance exists in every social setting. d. there are no exceptions to the rule.
Following mass-society theory, the key problem of living in a modernsociety is
a. finding any personal freedom. b. dealing with persistent poverty. c. gaining a sense of power. d. building a confident personal identity in a quickly changing and morally relativistic world.
William Julius Wilson’s term spatial mismatch is used to describe what phenomenon?
A. Urban job seekers find themselves geographically disconnected from suburban occupational opportunities. B. Urban areas remain highly segregated despite efforts to integrate. C. Suburban residents lack adequate transportation to reach urban job centers. D. Public housing units are torn down without constructing an equal number of new units, resulting in affordable housing shortages.
Rudy, who has just retired from his longtime job as a corporate executive, is enjoying the freedom that his post-working years afford him, and he is spending a lot of time doing the traveling that he never had the time to do before. According to Robert Atchley, he is in which phase of retirement?
A. near B. preretirement C. honeymoon D. termination