Joe lives in a neighborhood where the grocery stores there rarely sell fresh or low-cost produce. Neighborhoods like Joe's are known as

a. impoverished.
b. nutritionally isolated.
c. nutritionally challenged.
d. food deserts.


Answer: d. food deserts.

Sociology

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The practice whereby unscrupulous real-estate agents play on the fears of white and the housing predicament of blacks to make a fast buck by encouraging the rapid turnover of a neighborhood from all-white to all-black is called

a. Redlining b. Racial steering c. Blockbusting d. Gerrymandering

Sociology

A symbolic interactionist would be most likely to ask which of the following questions?

a. What function does the education system serve for the larger society? b. Why is education a useful service? c. How is the educational system used to benefit those in power? d. What messages are communicated to students by the structure in which education takes place? e. How does the economic system determine the welfare system?

Sociology

Systems of descent, the ways in which people trace kinship generation after generation, are __________.

a. matrilineal everywhere but in the United States b. remarkably similar throughout the world c. different all over the world d. bilineal in the United States, but patriarchal everywhere else

Sociology

Very broadly, where did Weber believe that capitalism was more likely to flourish?

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology