Identify and describe a rite of passage in your culture. Why are rites of passage important in one's culture?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary.
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According to W.E.B. Du Bois in his classic work, The Souls of Black Folk,
a. since the end of legal slavery, there has been substantial improvement in the lives of most African Americans. b. race does not operate as a master status. c. U.S. society makes whites the standard by which others (including African Americans) should be measured. d. African American people are morally superior to white people.
The __________ approach to educational problems views the schools as agents of social control whose task it is to reinforce society's values and to control deviance through discipline
a. interactionist b. functionalist c. labeling d. class conflict e. social disorganization
Barbara Ehrenreich worked in jobs that paid $8.00 or less to learn first hand about the situation of the working poor
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A category of people that is socially identified and set apart both by others and by itself on the basis of unique cultural or nationality characteristics is termed a(n) ____
a. ethnic minority b. racial minority c. self-fulfilling prophecy d. social group e. reference group