According to the article Islands of Meaning, the categories we use to make sense of the world reflect which of these?
A. objective reality
B. religious beliefs
C. socially constructed distinctions
D. social class
C. socially constructed distinctions
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Which of these illustrates the concept that age is a social construction?
A) Depending on the norms of their society, 60-year-olds may be doddering and decrepit or in the robust prime of life. B) The life expectancy of different societies varies widely, from about 30 to 85 years. C) Human infants are incapable of providing for themselves, and depend on others to survive. D) The passing of years determines the characteristics of age.
John Kautsky's research on welfare states shows that socialist labor parties have been strongest in those societies
a. where small farmers and merchants made up most of the population b. in which the nobility or aristocracy remained politically powerful well into the twentieth century c. with very large populations of Catholics and Jews
__________ The acts people perform toward each other and the responses they give in return, which may consist of spoken words, subtle gestures, visual images, or even electronically transmitted digits
What will be an ideal response?
Which provided additional compensation in recent years for the survivors of the Japanese relocation camps?
A. the Civil Rights Act of 1965 B. the Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act C. the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 D. Presidential Proclamation 4417