Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Major charitable foundations are organizations staffed with experts in various fields who produce research findings and policy recommendations.
2. According to Riesman in his book The Lonely Crowd, leadership is important to both initiate new ideas and to maintain the status quo.
3. Even after the stock market boom of the 1990s, the great majority of American households owned no corporate stock or mutual fund shares.
4. The “Establishment” faded away in part because recruitment to positions of power in business and government had become less open and meritocratic.
1. FALSE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
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a. geographical size. b. population size. c. type of government. d. level of development.
In a small seminar class, there were eight Protestants, four Catholics, three Jews, two Muslims, a Buddhist, and seven students with no religious affiliation ("Nones"). The mode for this variable is
a. eight. b. undefined since the variable is nominal in level of measurement. c. Protestant. d. the same as the median.
How might anxiety attachment express itself in meeting a new partner?
a. isolation b. alcoholism c. depression d. verbal disfluences and social awkwardness
What reason do skeptics of conflict-based explanations give for why 43 percent of the people who live within 1 mile of hazardous waste treatment facilities in the U.S. do so?
A. Racial and ethnic minorities possess less power than others. B. Economics and discriminatory forces push them to live in these places. C. They like to live there due to low housing prices. D. They choose to live in these ecological oases.