White-collar occupations
a. are desired by many manual workers for their children as an escape from a boring, repetitive, and exhausting work world.
b. have proven highly rewarding to the children of manual laborers because of the creative and challenging character of such jobs.
c. include a high and increasing percentage of prestigious, well-paid positions.
d. usually require a college education.
a
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According to the social class model developed by sociologist Dennis Gilbert, the __________ class is the one that is most shaped by formal education
a. upper b. upper-upper c. upper-middle d. middle
Policies that disproportionally and negatively affect minority groups are referred to as ______.
A. institutional discrimination B. individual discrimination C. structural prejudice D. indeterminate prejudice
The region of the world that is expected to have the highest level of fertility in the middle of this century is
a. Africa. b. Asia. c. North America. d. Latin America.
When Europeans arrived in North America, the native (Indian) population numbered in the millions. By the end of the 19th century, the Indian population was less than 300,000 . This fact alone indicates that the major form of ethnic relations between Europeans and Indians was:
a. amalgamation. b. integration. c. caste. d. annihilation.