In what ways are the class and racial systems in the U.S. similar to a caste system of social stratification? Is one of these social identifiers more caste-like than the other?
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A) The Communist Manifesto B) The Catechism of the Catholic Church C) The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life D) The Last Temptation of Christ
Herbert Spencer saw societies as differentiating along which three axes?
a. operative, distributive, and regulatory b. regulatory, distributive, capitalistic c. operative, theological, reproductive d. theological, metaphysical, positivistic
Calculate the confidence interval: The average years of school completed for 734 respondents was 11.9 with a standard deviation of 0.5
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A scientific company lays off employees by seniority, retaining those that have been employed the longest. The majority of the female employees had been hired only in the past 10 years and were educated as part of the push to get more females into math and sciences. This situation is an example of
A. institutional discrimination. B. pluralism. C. instrumentality. D. expressiveness.