Grouping students by perceived intellectual ability helps to sustain segregation
a. true
b. false
a
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A) the redevelopment of older, often run-down residential buildings B) investors buying property in poor neighborhoods to rent to the poor C) keeping emergency room patients waiting for days D) purchasing property with the intent to move the poor out and sell to investors
From the _____ approach, institutions such as schools, prisons, and mental hospitals use knowledge, norms, and values to categorize people into "deviant" subgroups such as slow learners, convicted felons, or criminally insane individuals, and then to control them through specific patterns of discipline
a. symbolic interactionist b. conflict theoretical c. functional theoretical d. postmodern theoretical
Which of these characteristics is common to the women throughout the world who are having the most children? a. They live exclusively in poorer countries
b. They live in urban areas and have little access to birth control. c. They live in agricultural regions where infant mortality is high. d. They tend to come from intermediate-level fertility countries.
Which level of analysis focuses on large social structures?
A. meso B. mini C. macro D. micro