For many people, the fact that President Obama is African American is his __________, the characteristic that has the greatest significance for social identity.

A. defining quality
B. master status
C. ascribed status
D. achieved status


Answer: B

Sociology

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The length of conversations between supervisors and workers in a particular manufacturing industry is normally distributed with a mean of 4.0 minutes and a standard deviation of .8 minutes. What percentage of conversations are longer than 4.4 minutes?

Longer than 5 minutes? Longer than 3 minutes? Shorter than 2.5 minutes? Use the normal curve table. What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

Discuss how long-term inflation has affected the decline of purchasing power of the American family

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

There is no such thing as a typical global family.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

Sociology

For Karl Marx, the lumpenproletariat is made up of __________.

A. workers who would rise up to overthrow the capitalist system B. those who monopolized force within the working class C. members of capitalist societies who are poor and not in the labor force D. people with talent and ability

Sociology