According to the textbook, why has sales work increased over time?
a. New technology, such as the "intelligent" cash register, necessitate more jobs in sales.
b. Workers have been displaced from shrinking farming and precision craft occupations into sales jobs.
c. Improvements in transportation and communication and increases in disposable income have increased markets.
d. Department
stores have displaced specialty stores and provided many more jobs in sales.
e. Direct sales workers create jobs for themselves when other jobs are unavailable.
c
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The concept of linguistic relativity implies that ________
a. customs of one society should be evaluated based on how they compare to the corresponding customs of another society. b. individual members of one society can relate to cultural norms and customs of another society. c. language shapes and influences thought throughout society d. all of the above.
One problem with Robert Merton's theory of deviance is that Merton
a. accepts the U.S. success ethic. b. endorses innovative techniques for success. c. condemns the corporate world as a cause of poverty. d. exaggerates the use of differential association to explain crime.
Akello, an African American woman enrolls her 3-year-old son, Ababuo, at Redwood Learning Academy.Within the first few days of attending school, Ababuo begins to notice that he differs from his classmates bothphysically and culturally
Akello notices her son's confusion and decides to teach him to overcome race-relatedbarriers and to be proud of his cultural heritage. In this scenario, Akello is actively engaging in the process of________. A) racial discrimination B) segregation C) racial socialization D) acculturation
Nonprobability samples are useful for:
a. generalizing findings to a population. b. pretesting a larger project. c. finding causal relationships. d. nonprobability samples are never useful