Julia is a highly paid actress who likes expensive clothing and inexpensive jewelry and reads comic books as well as best-selling books. From this example, it could be said that Julia is a ______.

A. cultural feeder
B. cultural omnivore
C. status offender
D. cultural dissident


Answer: B

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When lower paid “women’s” jobs are separated from the better paid “men’s” jobs within an occupation, job, or firm through the use of informal gender typing, this is known as:

a. ghettoization b. patriarchal dissolution c. resegregation d. protective labor

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. According to Alfred Shultz we all have our own, somewhat unique life-world. 2. Even though we have unique experiences, at the broadest society level (e.g. culture) our knowledge remains identical. 3. The private stocks of knowledge we develop via our own unique biographies are not part of the life-world. 4. Alfred Shultz largely abandoned the consciousness that phenomenologist make central. 5. Alfred Shultz criticized Max Weber for ignoring how consciousness relates to social action.

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