What is deindustrialization? How is deindustrialization linked to the Information Revolution? Point to several specific ways in which these processes affected the U.S. economy.
What will be an ideal response?
- Deindustrialization involved the decline of industrial production that occurred in the United States after about 1950.
- As the Information Revolution signaled the birth of new information technology, it marked the onset of deindustrialization.
- As the economy created new service jobs, it lost old industrial jobs.
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a. monkeys isolated for six months were highly fearful when they were returned to others of their kind. b. isolated monkeys able to cuddle artificial mothers developed normally. c. even several days of social isolation permanently damaged infant monkeys. d. prolonged isolation had little effect on infant monkeys.
The annual quantity of heat liberated by cow dung, the Indian housewives' main cooking fuel, is the thermal equivalent of __________ million tons of kerosene
a. 27 b. 35 c. 68 d. 120
From a sociological perspective, values
a. are cultural. b. should be examined critically. c. have contributed to many social problems. d. all of these
Tannenbaum (1938) describes __________ as the process whereby an individual is negatively labeled by criminal justice agencie
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).