Which of the following is characteristic of modern social control over life at the level of the body and the population according to Michel Foucault?
A. torture
B. deinstitutionalization
C. biopolitics
D. hierarchical observation
C. biopolitics
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Thomas, an educationist, feels that tracking or formalized ability grouping of students in the U.S. is not a completely fair process. Which of the following is a reason for Thomas to have such an opinion?
a. Tracking decisions are made, at least in part, on the basis of stereotypes about social class and race. b. Students from affluent families are more likely to be placed in lower tracks than lower-class students. c. Decisions about tracking are based on the student's performance in class or on standardized tests. d. Tracking has resulted in an unacceptably large high school dropout rate in the United States.
Which of the following statements reflects the Mexican experience in the United States?
a. Mexican Americans who inherited land proved no match for Anglo lawyers. b. Mexican Americans' interests won whenever Mexican Americans and Anglo interests conflicted. c. Mexican Americans were granted grazing privileges for their cattle on public lands. d. Mexican Americans were regarded as a group of unconquered people.
The null hypothesis states that:
a. no specific relationship is being tested. b. two samples have been drawn from populations with different means. c. two samples have been drawn from the same population. d. u1 # u2
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of survey research?
A.) Not as time consuming as some other methods B.) Relatively inexpensive C.) High validity D.) High generalizability (with a random sample)