What is the term for settlements, common in poor nations, where people have constructed makeshift homes from whatever materials they can find, and where most people do not have even clean water and sewerage?
a. ghettos
b. shantytowns
c. tenements
d. edge cities
(Answer: b)
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A) Hispanic men B) White women C) Black men D) Hispanic women
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a. toxic waste disposal b. air pollution c. land degradation d. the greenhouse effect e. wasteland use
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. In bridging two arenas of social thought, George Simmel can be thought of as both a modernist and a postmodernist. 2. anthony Giddens’s Juggernaut of Modernity is a grand theory with a unidirectional prediction of where society is headed. 3. Anthony Giddens’s Juggernaut of Modernity is fitting with his ideas on structuration because it accounts for both time and space. 4. Anthony Giddens’s Juggernaut of Modernity is fitting with his ideas on agency because it affords human actors great power of their destiny. 5. Anthony Giddens argues that modernity entails a breaking down of trust throughout society.
Julio is studying the social aspects of new students at his college's orientation program. He notes the different ways that students behave when they are do not yet know other students. Julio is likely to be using what perspective in his study?
A. interactionist B. functionalist C. conflict D. generalist