The United States forcibly removed Native American children from their families and put them in boarding schools to learn the dominant culture. What concept best applies to this example?
a. Assimilation
b. Multiculturalism
c. Cultural relativism
d. Counterculture
Answer: A
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Which of the following is a characteristic of job programs such as Work Incentive Program (WIN) and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)?
a. They provide every unemployed poor person with a permanent job. b. They help in the elimination of poverty. c. They provide on-the-job training and temporary public service jobs. d. They fail to take unemployed females into consideration.
Changes in the structure of the American economy and especially in the types of jobs it produces have resulted in:
a. a blurring of class lines b. a heightening of class conflict between workers and the owners of the means of production c. little or no change in the class structure d. sharper distinctions between the working class and the middle class
Research by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that ______ scored higher than ______ on a test of religious knowledge.
A. agnostics; Protestants and Catholics B. Catholics and Protestants; atheists C. Protestants; atheists D. Episcopalians; agnostics
The expectation that we give and take in equal ways with others refers to ______.
A. coverture B. social behavior theory C. social exchange theory D. the norm of reciprocity