Erik, who is white, has recently purchased his
first house. In an effort to ensure his property value would stay high, he looked for the best neighborhood he could afford in the best school system. As it turned out, his neighborhood was nearly all white. This is an example of __________.
A) institutional discrimination
B) social discrimination
C) institutional prejudice
D) social prejudice
Answer: B
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A) Material Culture B) Concrete Society C) Cultural Consumerism D) Nonmaterial culture
The text observes that by the twentieth century, death had become
(a) culturally invisible. (b) politically incorrect. (c) unfashionable. (d) common domestic knowledge.
Muller and Thompson's (2003) themes of grieving include all of the following except
A. stability. B. affect. C. narrative. D. relationship.
Emergent norm theory stresses
a. the tendency of crowds to reject all norms. b. the tendency of crowds to violate the norm of reciprocity. c. the tendency of crowds to punish individuals who remain loyal to prevailing norms. d. the similarity between everyday social behavior and crowd behavior. e. the degree to which crowd behavior is a consequence of crystallized relative deprivation.