According to Robert Heilbroner, the human future looks grim because of
a. the increasing exhaustion of irreplacable resources
b. rapid population growth
c. increasing moral individualism
d. two of these
d
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The 1896 Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson reaffirmed
a. The Emancipation Proclamation. b. "Jim Crow" laws. c. right-to-work laws. d. the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
Allen and his best friend died in a car accident two hours after their high school graduation ceremony. This tragic accident is an example of:
a. an external stressor. b. a chronic stressor. c. an absolute stressor. d. a nonnormative stressor.
In an experiment, the group that does not experience the treatment but whose behavior is compared with that of the experimental group is known as the:
a. comparative group. b. control group. c. field group. d. reference group.
Thomas, age thirty-seven, grew up in an extremely impoverished neighborhood of a city that was, itself, struggling to survive after most of its factories closed and no new industries moved in to take their place. Thomas did get a high school diploma but has been periodically unemployed and, when employed, often works part-time and earns only minimum wage. He would love to get job training and make more of himself, maybe even own his own home someday, but he simply does not have the resources needed to make that happen. Merton’s structural strain theory would predict that Thomas might turn to crime because of
A. the amount of anomie he experiences. B. the emotional stress caused by his situation. C. the tension between desired cultural goals and the means of achieving them. D. the lack of any commitment to cultural goals.