Denying equal access to opportunities and resources on the basis of group membership rather than merit or rights is known as
A. ethnocentrism.
B. segregation.
C. stereotyping.
D. discrimination.
Answer: D
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Peripheral nations
a. depend on core nations for capital and have little or no industrialization. b. are dependent on themselves for capital. c. began to industrialize and urbanize rapidly late in the twentieth century. d. exploit semiperipheral nations.
Sometimes, acts of civil disobedience become violent, as in a confrontation between protesters and police officers; in this case, a protest crowd becomes a(n) __________ crowd
a. conventional b. acting c. aggressive d. deviant
Industrial societies rely on __________ to produce an unprecedented amount of surplus wealth
a. the plow b. domestication c. mechanization d. the computer chip
Earth naturally recycles water and refreshes the land in a process that scientists call__________.
A. the ecological transformation B. hydrosynthesis C. the swamp effect D. the hydrologic cycle