Three teenagers have a close friendship, but two members are upset when one member cancels plans. As a result, the remaining two members begin to exclude the third member. What is this an example of?
A. social closure
B. coalition formation
C. normative group
D. secondary group
Answer: B
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A. discrimination B. occupational segregation C. emotion work D. intuitive labor
Authoritarian personality theory states that extreme prejudice is
a. built into culture itself. b. a trait of certain individuals with particular personalities. c. found among poor and disadvantaged people. d. found among most people in all societies.
According to one theory, stratification occurred in the world once some countries were able to colonize other countries, thus enabling the colonizing country to dominate the colonized nation and __________
a. shut it down b. take advantage of its assets c. wipe it off the map d. become more like the country it had conquered
Most cities of the ancient world had an outer wall offering defense and separation and did this largely because:
a. the buildings at the core were religious and political b. the central area was primarily a business district needing constant protection c. the very poor were unprotected but the center protected the elite d. religious temples were too large to be contained within this same walled center