In order to pay for the immense growth of the corrections department, the State of California:
a. implemented a new sales tax.
b. shifted money from public education to corrections.
c. increased monetary penalties for convicted offenders.
d. none of the above
B
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In the context of education, which of the following is a criticism of conflict theorists?
A. They exaggerate the benefits of education. B. They ignore achievement gaps that are a result of social class. C. They gloss over rising college costs and student loan debt. D. They overlook the fact that people can gain skills on the job with a few weeks of training. E. They overstate the importance of social class achievement gaps.
Karl Polanyi refers to the Industrial Revolution as "the great transformation." By this he means that:
a. it led to the rise of individualism b. it resulted in an increase in the number of wars c. the market became the dominant institution in society d. the number of labor unions increased rapidly
Cultural deviance theory is associated with which sociologist(s)?
A. Edwin Sutherland B. Émile Durkheim C. Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay D. Travis Hirschi
Beginning in April 1994, groups of ethnic Hutu, armed mostly with machetes, began a campaign of terror and bloodshed in the central African country of Rwanda. For about 100 days, the Hutu militias followed a clear and premeditated attempt to exterminate the country's ethnic Tutsi population. This is an example of __________.
A. targeted killings B. MST C. genocide D. outgroup murder