Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton described inner-city areas, where African American people have little contact of any kind with people in the larger society, using which of the following concepts?
A. assimilation
B. pluralism
C. hypersegregation
D. institutional prejudice
Answer: C
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A) advantaged B) disadvantaged C) did not impact D) never included
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A. Symbolic interactionist B. Functionalist C. Constructivist D. Conflict theorist
Which theoretical framework understands social life as a system of meanings created through interaction?
a. Structural-functionalism b. Symbolic interactionism c. Conflict theory d. Feminism
The idea that our enemies, or those who disagree with us, are worse than they are is part of ______.
a. naïve realism. b. natural bias. c. the myth of pure evil. d. human irrationality.