A very important cultural factor in prejudice and discrimination involves the social standards that specify the kind of behavior that is appropriate in a given situation. These standards are called social __________
a. values
b. beliefs
c. social norms
d. statuses
c
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Joe is a psychiatrist who works with mental patients and searches for the cause in some unresolved conflict in the patient's childhood. He is probably using __________ theory
a) behavioral b) psychoanalytic c) labeling d) biomedical
What suggests that eating disorders and obesity reflect social factors more than biological factors?
a. Max Weber clearly showed that their origins lie in the cult of beauty present in the Roman republic. b. If physical or biological factors were responsible, physicians would have found a cure for such important health issues. c. Only women suffer from these conditions. d. They are very recent health problems.
Discuss the Turner thesis.
What will be an ideal response?
The fact that those in Beijing, China use the "Wumai" (meaning fog) rather than "Wuran" (meaning pollution) to describe the poor air quality in their city is an illustration of
a. denial of the role of human activities in climate change b. acceptance of destiny as cause of climate change c. acceptance of global warming as cause of climate change d. denial of global warming as cause of climate chan