The first congressional act that President Obama signed into law, based on Lilly Ledbetter's case,
A) Finalized the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
B) Expanded the time limitation for filing an Equal Pay lawsuit
C) Prohibited sex discrimination in the workplace
D) Made the gender wage gap illegal
Answer: B
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Which of the following options describes a war system?
a. components of social institutions and cultural beliefs and practices that promote development of warriors, weapons, and war as a normal part of the society and its foreign policy b. organized, armed conflict between nations or distinct political factions c. organized violence by people seeking to promote their cause or resist social policies or practices that they consider oppressive d. the use of calculated, unlawful physical force or threats of violence against a government, organization, or individual to gain some political, religious, economic, or social objective
Adoption:
a) of minority children by White parents generally results in children who know very little about their cultural heritage. b) rarely occurs among the never-married: Among adoptive parents, only 6 percent of women and 1 percent of men have never been married. c) from China has increased in recent years, while the number of adoptions from Guatemala and Russia have declined. d) internationally is often a result of political decisions around the world that produce orphans, such as China's one-child policy. e) internationally poses great risk because children are usually not available for adoption for at least 6-12 months, and therefore most often fail to thrive with their new families.
The paradigm that is based on the assumption that social reality is "out there," ready to be observed and reported by the researcher as it "really is" is known as
a. ethnomethodology. b. symbolic realism. c. naturalism. d. extended case method. e. institutional ethnography
Which theory asserts that the importance of religion has declined in the face of modernity?
A. the secularization thesis B. the sacred transformation thesis C. the theory of least interest D. conflict theory