Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. William Julius Wilson is a sociologist who focuses on the problems that long-term unemployment creates for black Americans.
2. Many people live in mansions and have two or three vehicles, yet they don't have the money to pay the mortgage and car payments. This is an example of hypoconsumption.
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
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______________includes the corporations and agencies with an economic stake in building and supplying correctional facilities and in providing services
a. Medicalization c. Bureaucracy. b. Prison-industrial complex d. Institututionalization
Kim is an Asian woman in her thirties. She enjoys shopping and going to her local mall on the weekends when she's not working. Kim lives in a mid-sized community where there is limited ethnic diversity. Her husband is white and so are her friends. There is one particular store, where Kim and her friends shop, in which many of the clerks are white women in their late fifties to early sixties. They are very friendly and attentive to Kim's friends, but not to Kim. Kim will sometimes have to wait for a few minutes at the checkout before receiving assistance. What is Kim experiencing?
A. discrimination B. subtle manipulation C. prejudice D. institutional discrimination
Conflict theorists argue that the American medical industry holds which of these as its primary value?
A. human life B. profit C. social justice D. disease control
The practice of understanding another culture on its own terms and using its own standards is called ________
a. ethnocentrism. b. cultural relativism. c. cultural diffusion. d. cultural integration.