Explain the differences between social groups, aggregates, and categories
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A social category is a collection of people who share some common social characteristic (e.g., women, teenagers, college graduates). A social aggregate is simply people who happen to be in the same place at the same time (e.g., the people in a theater to watch a movie). A group is composed of people who are in contact with each other, share some ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving, take one another's' behavior into account, and share some common interest(s).
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(a) distinguishes between battering of married and unmarried females. (b) fails to represent experiences of women of color. (c) represents women of various sexual orientations. (d) represents women of other ethnic groups in proportion to their number in the larger society.
Albert Cohen's theory is similar to Merton's approach, but Cohen replaced the word "success" with the word "__________."
a) wealth b) innovation c) anomie d) status
To display the effects of the X variable on the Y variable in a bivariate table when the independent variable has been arranged in the columns, compute percentages
a. within each column b. between each column c. within each row d. using N as the denominator
Using the following information from the U.S. Census Bureau, calculate both the number and percentage of non-white military reserve personnel. Military Reserve Personnel by Race, 2002White73.2%Black15.9%Latino7.9%Asian2.3%Native American0.7%The total number of military reserve personnel is 129,047.
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