examples of institutional discrimination include
What will be an ideal response?
-restrictive employment- leave policies
-college admission preferences for children of alumni
-requiring only English be spoken at a place of business
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According to Stacey, gay cruising facilitates
a. more democratic forms of intimate social discourse. b. gay men never making gay male friends. c. a significant annual income for cruise ship companies. d. great relationships among men of the upper class.
Which sociological theory focuses on dissent, coercion, and antagonism in society?
A. structural functionalism B. conflict theory C. symbolic interactionism D. feminist theory
According to the text, the example of attitudes toward smoking in the U.S. demonstrates the notion that
A. perceptions of deviance are influenced by social change. B. smoking should not have been considered acceptable. C. laws, such as anti-smoking laws, are needed in order identify deviant behavior. D. evidence of risk is enough to change behavior.
If a person has one drop of non-white blood then he or she cannot be defined as a white person in the United States.
a. true b. false