The code of the streets is ______.

A. the informal rules that police use in minority neighborhoods to justify questioning residents
B. the set of norms that govern interactions in public spaces in poor, inner-city African-American neighborhoods
C. the norms of interaction in Saudi Arabia that shape how men and women can interact on public transportation
D. the informal rules used by children to negotiate how games played in and along roads should be started and stopped


B. the set of norms that govern interactions in public spaces in poor, inner-city African-American neighborhoods

Sociology

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The mass media

a. provide the person most of the information to define sociopolitical reality. b. play a very small role in promoting the existing values and practices of society. c. have no impact on the person's view of the world and what is important. d. maintain a clear line between news and entertainment.

Sociology

Which of the following statements applies the symbolic-interaction approach to schooling?

a. If teachers think some category of students is superior, those same students may end up doing superior work. b. Teachers convey specialized knowledge that children are not likely to learn at home. c. Some categories of students are tracked into better classes than others. d. Schools are intended for learning, but they also are places where many people meet their eventual partners.

Sociology

Lending small sums of money to the poor so they can work their way out of poverty is referred to as

A. outsourcing. B. microfinancing. C. offshoring. D. None of these answers is correct.

Sociology

Coleman and Rainwater studied prestige among individuals in ______.

A. Yankee City B. Middletown C. Boston and Kansas City D. Kansas City and Baltimore

Sociology