In the United States, working-class people are much less likely to vote and participate in political life than middle-class people. What is an important reason for this pattern of participation in the United States, as compared to all other Western democracies?
A. lack of education
B. absence of a labor or socialist party
C. class warfare
D. lack of financial resources
Answer: B
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a. The remarriage results in the reconstitution of the nuclear family. b. Parents and stepchildren will instantly love one another. c. All stepmothers act in rejecting ways towards their non-biological children. d. All of the above are examples of remarriage myths.
Cooley coined the term __________ for a larger, more specialized group in which the members engage in impersonal, goal-oriented relationships for a limited period of time
a. secondary group b. primary group c. ingroup d. outgroup
Relations between the larger society and which immigrant group are among the most tense and problematic of any minority group?
A. Haitians B. Sub-Saharan Africans C. Arab Americans D. Russians
How has “living on the wrong side of the tracks” been a social reality in the history of the United States?
A) Largely impassable infrastructural features often mark the boundaries of white and black neighborhoods as part of systematic residential segregation. B) A major train line divided the part of the country where discrimination occurred from the parts free from racial discrimination. C) Infrastructure was used to divide the places where discrimination was legal from the places where it was illegal. D) Historically, urban planners used train lines to try to connect neighborhoods and reduce segregation.