Examples of institutional discrimination include
What will be an ideal response?
-requiring only English be spoken at a job when language is not needed to perform the job.
-college admission preferences for children of alumni.
-restrictive employment-leave policies.
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Deinstitutionalization
a. refers to the practice of discharging patients from mental hospitals into the community. b. has proven to be a solution for the problem of "warehousing" mentally-ill patients. c. often included committing people to psychiatric hospitals without their consent. d. has increased the number of mentally ill patients in psychiatric hospitals.
Many people in the United States have concluded that the majority of the poor are black and Hispanics, are poor because they do not want to work, and welfare programs for the poor are straining the federal budget
These conclusions are among the __________. a. facts of welfare life b. myths and misconceptions about poverty c. social scientific theories on welfare d. observations made by those on welfare e. planks in the Democratic Party platform
What is a key difference between homosexual and heterosexual couples in terms of having children?
a. Heterosexual couples are significantly more likely to have children than homosexual couples. b. Heterosexual couples are slightly more likely to have children than homosexual couples. c. Homosexual couples are slightly more likely to have children than heterosexual couples. d. Homosexual couples are significantly more likely to have children than heterosexual couples.
For an individual to be deviant or delinquent, he or she must be __________
a. young b. rich c. poor d. involved with other people