_____ is the evaluation of a social group and the people within it that is based on misconceptions about the group and false generalizations applied to every presumed member of the group.
A. Racism
B. Prejudice
C. Discrimination
D. Bias
Answer: B
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a. the challenges women continue to face in society in general and in the academy in particular. b. the difficulties of balancing a career and motherhood. c. the strides of immigrants in the U.S. d. how women now dominate professorships at most major colleges and universities.
Global stratification has few long-term effects on the environment.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Some sociologists have suggested that in the southern U.S. in the pre-civil rights era, an African American individual was born into a status that would always be subordinate to the status of all of the White members of the community. This is an example of a(n)
A. estate system. B. class system. C. caste system. D. feudal system.
Lewis is angry about what he perceives as governmental overreach. He plans to blow up the Washington Monument to make a political statement. Lewis is a __________
A) freedom fighter B) martyr C) soldier of fortune D) terrorist