In its report, A Nation at Risk, the National Commission on Excellence in Education called for high schools to concentrate on the "five New Basics." Which of the following is NOT one of the five?
a. computer science
b. social studies
c. mathematics
d. English
e. foreign language
e
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The largest concentrations of Japanese Americans reside in
a) Philadelphia. b) Chicago. c) New York. d) Los Angeles.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The Indian Citizenship Act (1924) uses blood levels to determine citizenship status for Native Americans. 2. As a result of the General Allotment Act (1887), the United States acquired more than 100 million acres of Indian land between 1887 and 1934. 3. The Dawes Act was important to Native Americans because it increased their access to land. 4. Native Americans are overrepresented in white-collar occupations and underrepresented in service occupations. 5. The treaties negotiated between Indian tribes and the U.S. government were instrumental in repressing opportunities for Native Americans to secure valued resources.
How does interactionism allow sociologists to understand the individual?
a. by providing guidelines for how best to examine the more private aspects of the individual b. by focusing on how the individual's personality, preferences, ideas, etc., are constructed and shaped by and through communication with other individuals, groups, and institutions c. by showing how individuals impact the social world through day-to-day events d. by preventing sociologists from straying too far from the individual in their studies
The variable that is hypothesized to cause or influence another variable is referred to by social scientists as a(n)
A. independent variable. B. dependent variable. C. spurious variable. D. operational variable.