Joe Smith believes that people who can afford the price of a house should be free to live where they choose. However, when it came time to sell his house his neighbors convinced him to sell it to whites only. In Robert Merton's typology of prejudice and discrimination, Smith would be classified as a:
a. cautious bigot
b. strong liberal
c. true bigot
d. weak liberal
D
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a. Japanese firms are less oriented toward making profits b. Japanese workers have little job security c. Japanese firms are more competitive with one another d. Japanese workers show a higher degree of loyalty to their companies
Following the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, thousands of Irish workers settled in the cities and towns of the northeastern United States, and __________ was seen as a means of integrating this "uncouth and dangerous" element into the social
fabric of American life. a. marriage b. schooling c. resocialization d. temperance
People living in a small neighborhood in the state of Torelo have negative opinions about a certain minority group in the neighborhood and do not socialize with them
They try to segregate the residential complexes of the minority group and protest against the admission of their children to private schools in the neighborhood. People of the neighborhood are ________. a. prejudiced nondiscriminators b. unprejudiced nondiscriminators c. unprejudiced discriminators d. prejudiced discriminators
Robert Merton defines a _____ an unintended and unanticipated outcome.
a. dysfunction b. manifest function c. nonfunction d. latent function