Yellow Bird wanted to develop a measure of satisfaction with school life using items to reflect the various dimensions of school life (academics, social life, residence halls). She wanted to have each item measure intensity of feeling by using such categories as "strongly agree" and "strongly disagree.". Which approach is she using?

a. Thurstone scaling
b. Likert scaling
c. semantic differential
d. Bogardus social distance scale
e. Guttman scale


B

Sociology

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Which term refers to the decline of industrial production that occurred in the United States after about 1950?

A. global economy B. Information Revolution C. deindustrialization D. computer revolution

Sociology

Which of the following is not a life course perspective emphasis?

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

In the sharecropping system African American farmers were:

A) able to make enough money to save for their children education. B) never able to get out of debt to white landowners. C) members of unions that worked to support their interests when mistreated by white landowners. D) were able to buy seeds, fertilizer, and other supplies at a plantation store at discounted prices.

Sociology

______ is the belief that one's own culture and way of life are superior to all others.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Sociology