What do the German Nazis and Italian Black Shirts have in common with modern Al-Qaeda fundamentalists?
A) They are all alterative social movements.
B) They are all cargo cults.
C) They are all millenarian social movements.
D) They are all metaformative social movements.
D
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According to the functionalist perspective, what keeps the government of the United States from turning against its citizens?
A) a fear of nationwide anarchy B) political gridlock between the major parties C) the pluralism in distributing power D) the power of political action committees
Critics of the functionalist view suggest that stratification is immoral because it creates extremes of wealth and poverty and denigrates the people at the bottom
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The Minamata disease, a disease which produced severe nervous disorders and birth defects, was traced to the fact that the Chisso Chemical Company dumped mercury into a bay where Japanese villagers fished. The villagers of Minamata, the village in which the company was located, refused to become involved in lawsuits with the chemical company for many years. However, the residents of Niigata, a
fishing village forty miles up the river from the factory, filed lawsuits against the chemical company. Which of the following explanations flows from the conflict paradigm in attempting to explain the differences in lawsuits between the two villages? a. The Minamata victims were less likely to be tied socially, economically, and physically to the company than were the Niigata victims. b. The Japanese culture frowns on lawsuits. c. The chemical company controlled more of the village resources in Minamata than in Niigata. d. People in Niigata are not as nice as people in Minamata. e. None of these choices are correct.
According to Barack Obama, what is a critical piece of unfinished business pertaining to the Affordable Care Act?
a. Medicaid expansion b. Managed care for all c. Reinstitutionalization of the seriously mentally ill d. Support for caregivers of those with a terminal illness