The Burakumin were created centuries ago, when Japanese society was organized into a caste system based on ______.
A. religion
B. skin color
C. occupation
D. birthplace
E. educational attainment
Answer: C
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a. Psychoanalysis b. Convergence theory c. Emergent norm theory d. Contagion theory
Men account for 89 percent of all video game designers and for 97 percent of all video game programmers. What does this statement suggest about ascribed and achieved statuses?
a. Sometimes ascribed statuses overshadow achieved statuses. b. Male is a master status. c. Ascribed characteristics can play a role in the statuses people achieve. d. Ascribed statuses have no bearing on statuses achieved.
Stereotypical attitudes usually
a) apply only to prototypical members of the group. b) apply only to personally encountered members of the group. c) lead to more accurate judgments than those based on individual information. d) do not allow for any individual exceptions to the stereotype.
The practice of colleges admitting more ethnic minorities and women, under Talcott Parsons's model, is called
A. adaptation. B. differentiation. C. inclusion. D. generalization.