When people are held captive and deprived of sustenance, they sometimes come to identify with their captor. This phenomenon has been termed
A. Stockholm syndrome.
B. Shreve syndrome.
C. brainwashing.
D. desocialization.
Answer: A
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Causes for the increase in the proportion of the population that is elderly include
a. increases in both the birth rate and life expectancy. b. decreases in both the birth rate and life expectancy. c. a decreasing birth rate and increasing life expectancy. d. an increasing birth rate and decreasing life expectancy.
Martha Martinez's design is for a study of:
A. Managers' views of workers. B. Workers' views of managers. C. Students' views of university administrators. D. Professors' views of students. E. University administrators' views of alumni donors.
Which of the following is true of nonmaterial culture?
A. It consists of the ideas that people create to interpret and understand the world. B. It consists of the physical objects that people make, use, and share. C. It is a system of shared symbols that enables people to communicate with one another. D. It refers to the standards by which people define what is good or bad, moral or immoral, proper or improper, desirable or undesirable, beautiful or ugly. E. It consists of rewards for good or appropriate behavior and/or penalties for bad or inappropriate behavior.
According to C. Wright Mills' analysis, which of the following facts helps in our analysis of the inequality between the total prestige and compensation of workers in the primary and secondary sectors compared to a select few of those in the service sector?
A. Politicians have continued to increase their wages and benefits at rates above the private sector. B. White and blue collar workers' jobs have continually become more threatened by globalization. C. The primary sector is able to advance its productivity through ever more advanced technological changes. D. Increases in taxes and regulations have proven to have negative effects on labor force participation.