Riots can have positive effects, including which of the following?
a. leading to improvements in police procedures
b. leading to politicians making changes to economic and social policies
c. leading to violent suppression of the people engaged in protest
d. opening a conversation between the public and the administrative/political sphere
a. leading to improvements in police procedures
b. leading to politicians making changes to economic and social policies
d. opening a conversation between the public and the administrative/political sphere
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_____ provides a foundation for understanding the purposes of socialization, but doesn't tell us how socialization works.
A. Feminist theory B. Functionalism C. Social learning theory D. Symbolic interaction theory E. Conflict theory
One major weakness of cultural transmission theory is that it fails to explain
a. why most people raised in crime-ridden environments do not become deviants. b. how deviance is learned. c. how deviance is transmitted from generation to generation. d. how deviance is transmitted from one ethnic group to another. e. how anomie is related to deviance.
Which of the following statements regarding race and immigration in the U.S. is TRUE?
A. Despite new immigration, rates of intermarriage are declining. B. Most Americans prefer not to identify themselves racially. C. Over 50% of children living with two parents have parents of different races. D. About 7% of adults come from more than one racial background.
Young adults whose parents have been divorced tend to experience ______.
a. doubts about their ability to form a stable relationship b. depression and anxiety c. fear of rejection by their parents d. violence toward their parents