Bobby was verbally scolded by his friends because he was drunk and made lewd comments to his best friend's girlfriend. This is an example of a:
a. negative formal sanction
b. positive formal sanction
c. positive informal sanction
d. negative informal sanction
d
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The term "oriental" is
a. an accurate label for Asian people. b. an accurate racial category. c. a racial category arising primarily in popular culture. d. an attempt in the United States to identify all Asian American citizens equal in status to other Americans.
Which of the following is NOT true about American Indian families?
A. Identification with particular tribes makes it impossible to make meaningful generalizations about this group. B. They often live in extended families that revolve around clan membership rather than birth, marriage, or adoption. C. They are increasingly marrying non-Indians. D. Conclusions about group characteristics are complicated by the group's low socioeconomic status.
The notion that people who are successful at adapting to the environment in which they find themselves are more likely to survive and reproduce is known as:
a. cultural diffusion b. ethnocentrism c. social Darwinism d. sociobiology
In sociological terms, which of the following is a minority group in the United States?
A. whites B. Protestants C. Catholics D. women