The distribution of income in the United States shows
a. an hourglass with many rich, many poor, and few in between
b. almost everyone clustered in the middle
c. many clustered in the lower-middle beneath a narrow tower of high incomes
d. a pyramid with many in absolute poverty, fewer in the middle, and a handful at the top
c. many clustered in the lower-middle beneath a narrow tower of high incomes
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Which American values are most likely to come into conflict?
a. activism-achievement b. progress-materialism c. individualism-conformity d. activism-efficiency e. none of the above
Sanderson and Alderson suggest that the evolution of modes of property ownership is closely associated with the evolution of modes of resource distribution. Therefore
a. primitive communism should be associated with pure redistribution b. paramount ownership should be associated with partial redistribution c. seigneurial ownership should be associated with reciprocity d. lineage ownership should be associated with surplus expropriation
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