Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Most Americans identify themselves as belonging to the middle class.
2. In the United States, wealth is more concentrated than income.
3. The growth of agribusiness in the United States has resulted in the employment of many more agricultural workers.
4. A major transition in the past several decades has been the movement of workers from the industrial sector to the service sector.
5. Since the 1970s, the movement of workers from industry to service jobs has resulted in substantial increases in real wages.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False
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A sample that mirrors the characteristics of the population from which it comes:
A) uniform sample B) representative sample C) random sample D) purposive
Which of the following best defines the differential association theory?
a. Inconsistencies and contradictions in the social system contribute to many forms of crime. b. It is the deviant behavior that a person adopts in response to the reaction of others to his or her primary deviance. c. Whether other people define or label a person as deviant is a critical determinant in the development of a pattern of deviant behavior. d. Crime and delinquency are learned in interaction with other people, for the most part within intimate primary groups such as families and peer groups.
Today the top tenth of Americans own
a. most of the nation's total wealth. b. about half the nation's total wealth. c. about one-quarter of the nation's total wealth. d. about 10 percent of the nation's total wealth.
Student debt has risen for all types of colleges, but the highest levels of debt belong to those who attend:
a. private not-for-profit colleges. b. private for-profit colleges. c. state universities. d. community colleges.