Which of the following would most closely fit the description of culturally resonant themes?
A. considering obesity and alcoholism as medical diseases of individuals rather than as caused by social structural forces
B. focusing on the statements of eye-witnesses of events rather than what scholars say
C. focusing on what scholars say instead of eye-witness accounts
D. using stereotypes to generate the "soft bigotry of low expectations"
Answer: A
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A) upward mobility B) ethnic antagonism C) ingroup favoritism D) immigration quotas
Teenage births:
a) occur to nearly 100,000 women a year. b) have most sharply declined among Blacks between 1991 and 2008 c) have risen for all groups expect for Whites between 1991 and 2008 d) can be quite dangerous for the baby, although maternal outcomes are not significantly different from those of older women. e) have increased since 1991 because of the decline in stigma associated with births outside of marriage and the highly publicized pregnancies of several celebrity teens.
Families: a. stay the same across time
b. only change during times of social upheaval. c. only change during times of economic upheaval. d. are dynamic.
Changing the laws from Spanish to English in the period after the Mexican-American War resulted in
A. more Mexicans' learning English. B. acquisition of more land by Mexican Americans. C. loss of land held by Mexican Americans. D. better relations between Anglos and Mexican Americans.