Socialization agents are those who pass on social expectations. According to the text,
A. social institutions are socialization agents in adulthood only.
B. people are not socialization agents.
C. everyone is a socializing agent.
D. it is impossible to identify the true socialization agents in society.
Answer: C
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a. blaming the victim. b. blaming "the man." c. blaming the system. d. blaming the culture.
According to Graeme Newman's The Punishment Response (1978), appropriate punishment "to suit the crime" would not only encourage the reformation of offenders, but discourage criminality in the general populace. True or False?
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following is a qualitative study?
A. A medical sociologist wants to see whether hospitals in inner cities (which are more likely to serve people living in poverty) have access to less funding than hospitals in expensive suburbs (which are more likely to serve wealthy individuals) and if this funding difference correlates with greater fatalities. B. A critical sociologist believes that the stress of racism in everyday life likely increases susceptibility to hypertension. In order to conduct this study, he compares the rate of hypertension for Black men to the rate of hypertension for White men. C. A medical sociologist wants to know whether the conditions of prison effect later health outcomes. To do this, he gets the medical records of a random sample of recently released prisoners and a random sample of people who have never been incarcerated and compares their rates of heart disease. D. A medical sociologist is trying to determine whether a country has entered the post-transition phase of the epidemiological transition and charts the trends for acute and chronic disease deaths for the past 100 years. E. Because nurses spend so much time with patients, a critical sociologist wants to know whether doctors value their input on patient treatment plans or feel challenged when nurses try to give their input.
SAGE News Clips: Educational Recruitment ScamDescription: Announcing the largest False Claims Act settlement involving a for-profit educational institution in U.S. history, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch discusses a $95.5 million settlement with Education Management Corporation (EDMC). As discussed in the video, EDMC ran a high-pressure recruitment scheme in which recruiters were rewarded for bringing in the most students. EDMC also exaggerated its job-placement numbers and used deceptive sales tactics to recruit students they knew were underprepared for higher education. Watch this video to learn more!Click on the above link to access the Interactive eBook. Once you've signed in, scroll to page 361, and watch the video. When you've finished watching the video, come back to the test,
and answer the following questions:For-profit educational institutions such as EDMC often prey on students' needs and desires to compete in our ______. A. credential society B. system of de facto segregation C. gatekeeping D. hidden curriculum