Two recent studies in the United States have shown what effect on the financial costs and benefits from immigration?
a. No fiscal effect
b. Substantial fiscal benefits since the average immigrant contributes more in taxes and government fees than he or she takes in services
c. Substantial fiscal costs since the average immigrant consumes more in government services than he or she gives in taxes and fees
d. Some fiscal costs through the consumption of services including education and health care
ANS: b
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A) They provided low-cost care for men infected with venereal disease during World War II B) They discovered a new strain of syphilis, but did not report it to the Center for Disease Control. C) They used unauthorized, experimental treatments for syphilis. D) They left men diagnosed with syphilis go untreated so they could follow the disease.
Conflict theory depicts society as
a. being in an unending process of cyclical change. b. progressing through a set of linear stages. c. fluctuating around a stable equilibrium. d. unstable with separate parts always at odds with each other. e. being in a process of breakdown.
Which of the following statements is true of a family crisis?
A) It requires that the responses to the stressor remain unchanged. B) It upsets the normal functioning of the family. C) The greater the number of crisis events, the lesser the stress. D) An extramarital affair is an external source of family crisis.
Max Weber defined ________ as the ability to exercise one's will over others.
A. control B. status C. class D. power