Postman (1989) argues that the popular media culture ______ the educational system in the United States.
A. enhances
B. compliments
C. undermines
D. generally does not effect
Answer: C
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A. They wrote primarily about themselves. B. They became excessively self-scrutinizing and reflexive. C. They gave up the project of developing an external, objective understanding of cultures. D. They wrote about how they do ethnography rather than about the cultures they study. E. All of the above.
Eric Wolf in Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century uses a key concept to link apparently very different events. The concept is:
A. Nationalism. B. religious fundamentalism C. capitalism D. indigenous rebellion E. anti-foreign mobilization
According to Merton's strain theory, individuals who neither accept nor reject society's
goals and means but rather substitute them are: a. rebels b. conformists c. innovators d. ritualists
_____________ is a successful version of public health care for the elderly in the United States
a. Medicare b. Medicaid c. Insurance d. Health care