McNamee and Miller assert, in "The American Dream," that factors such as __________ play a role in getting ahead
a. hard work, individual merit, and motivation.
b. luck, connections, and inheritance
c. equality, reality, and achievement
d. intelligence, ability, and drive
B
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According to researchers cited in the text, new religious movements emerge because
a. they resolve a sense of moral ambiguity in modern industrial society. b. they are a consequence of the excessive emphasis on altruism in American Protestantism. c. they are geared toward people whose heritage comes from agriculture. d. they are an outgrowth of the frontier movement. e. there is too much emphasis on the church as a supportive community in the traditional denominations from which their converts come.
The different units of a bureaucracy _____ communicate very well
a. always b. donot always c. never try to d. have no mandate to
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are meant to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of 2000. 2. Development is in crisis partly because of the failure of neoliberal policy reforms to convince the rest of the world of the sustainability of the "development" model. 3. Current measures of development are not adequate because of their emphasis on nonmarket forces. 4. The Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) is a better measure of development than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 5. Degrowth economics is more sustainable than conventional economic growth models because it depends on people making conscious efforts, voluntarily to downsize their economic earnings and consumptions
A form of polygamy in which a man is allowed to have more than one wife is also referred to as
A. conjugal family. B. polygyny. C. extended family. D. polyandry.