According to Vincent Parrillo's recent investigations using the social distance scale, today's college and university students (compared to those in decades past) __________.
A. are more accepting of all minorities
B. see greater difference between the various minorities
C. express the most prejudice toward African Americans
D. express the most prejudice toward people from European nations
Answer: A
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a. postmodernism is an extension of the assumptions of modernism b. postmodernism argues that globalization benefits some more than others c. according to postmodernists, modernization decreases autonomy d. there is no ultimate truth from the perspective of postmodernism e. modernization has not solved the problems of global hunger and poverty
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a. new to the last two decades. b. causing immigration to taper to a trickle. c. age-old. d. confined to California.
Which perspective would look at the inequality and power embedded in gender?
A. structural functionalist B. symbolic interactionist C. conflict D. gender as social structure