Institutional discrimination is the
A. establishment of laws that intentionally deny opportunities and equal rights to members of minority groups.
B. belief that individuals or groups should be denied equal rights and opportunities.
C. stereotyping of people who work in public or private institutions.
D. denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals or groups that results from the normal operations of society.
Answer: D
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a. southeast Asia. b. sub-Saharan Africa. c. North America. d. Latin America.
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
William Robinson, a sociologist, found that during the 1930s there was a positive relationship between the literacy rate and percentage of the population that was foreign born. If you concluded on this basis that your neighbor, Yasmine, who is a foreign-born resident, has a higher literacy rate than other native-born residents, you would be committing the
a. individualistic fallacy. b. ex post facto fallacy. c. ecological fallacy. d. part-whole fallacy. e. secondary data fallacy.
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A. the manifest function of education. B. an example of the correspondence principle. C. the latent function of education. D. the dysfunction of education.