Social scientists believe that race is ______.
A. biological
B. genetic
C. socially constructed
D. insignificant
Answer: C
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Which of the following exemplifies the Latino paradox?
a. Maria, a Mexican American, is in the working class and does not have her high school diploma, but has a longer life expectancy than Whitney, a White, middle-class and college-educated woman. b. Belen, a Puerto Rican, lacks a college degree, but finds work in a bank and climbs into the middle class faster than Corey, a White woman who does have a college degree. c. Hugo, an immigrant from Venezuela, is given automatic entrance into a state college, while Paul, a White American, is waitlisted. d. Alejandro, a second-generation Mexican American, graduates from high school and enters the local university to study business, while Jack, a White male, drops out of high school and joins a gang.
______ theory explains global inequality using the characteristics of individual nations; ______ theory argues no country or set of countries may be understood in isolation from the others
a. Dependency / modernization b. World systems / modernization c. Modernization / world systems d. Modernization / dependency
When a son or daughter achieves an occupation that is higher or lower in rank and prestige than a parent's occupation, sociologists label that mobility
a. intragenerational. b. intergenerational. c. downward. d. upward.
Gilman’s passage concerning corsets is used as a metaphor for
a. lack of control by women over fashion b. their role as mothers c. general constraints placed upon women d. their role as wives