South African runner Caster Semenya was required to submit to sex-determination testing in order to compete in the 2009 international track and field championships in Berlin. The test
a. determined that Semenya was a man trying to pass as female.
b. determined that she possessed special advantages over other females competitors.
c. proved that she was female.
d. took several weeks to complete and involved a medical examination and reports from a variety of medical specialists and an expert on gender.
d
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a. Relative poverty b. Life chances c. Absolute poverty d. Social inequality
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a. nonfunction b. dysfunction c. latent function d. manifest function
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A) 1% B) 10% C) 25% D) 50%