Income inequality in the United States looks different depending on how it is divided. Which of these comparisons has the largest disparity?
a. Comparing the bottom 99% to the top 1%
b. Comparing the bottom 90% to the top 10%
c. Comparing the bottom 90% to the top 0.1%
d. Comparing the bottom 50% to the top 50%
c. Comparing the bottom 90% to the top 0.1%
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In addition to legal migrants, an estimated _______ unauthorized immigrants enter the U.S. each year
a. 2,500,000 b. 525,000 c. 25,000 d. 50,000
According to Levitt, all but which of following is true regarding crime rates?
a. Controlling for other factors, there is a statistically significant but substantively small relationship between unemployment rates and property crime. b. Violent crime does not vary systematically with the unemployment rate. c. Changes in U.S. gun laws in the 1980s and 1990s, allowing for the carrying of concealed weapons by the average citizen, can account for a significant portion of the reduction in rate of crime during the 1990s decade. d. The "echo" of the baby boom led to a temporary increase in the number of teenagers and young adults during the 1990s—and thus offset most of the expected effects of the "aging" baby boom generation. e. The impact that policing strategies had on the crime rate in 1990s is likely to have been minor—at best.
Akasha claims that America is the greatest country that ever existed in human history. This is an example of:
a. social norms b. symbols c. ethnocentrism d. None of these.
The societal-reaction approach is also known as
A. the human relations approach. B. the anomie theory of deviance. C. labeling theory. D. the dramaturgical approach.