Medical practitioners who seek to adapt to their patients' cultural expectations are exhibiting ________.

A. cultural imperialism
B. culture shock
C. cultural relativism
D. culture lag


Answer: C

Sociology

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The practice the South employed after the Civil War to segregate blacks from whites was called ________

A) the Truman Amendment B) Horatio Alger Law C) the Baxter Principal D) Jim Crow law

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A) ?Because it involves examining micro, macro, and micro-macro forces B) ?Because it is based solely on conventional wisdom C) ?Because it focuses exclusively on studying everyday interactions among people D) ?Because it focuses on a single point of view E) ?Because it uses tools that are subjective in nature

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a. the military-sexual complex b. hegemonic masculinity c. the military-industrial complex d. normative heterosexuality

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