W. I. Thomas once wrote that if we "define a situation as real, it is real in its consequences." By this, he meant that
a. behavior is a function of group membership
b. our understanding of what is happening around us guides our actions
c. public behavior is defined by certain opinion leaders
d. we behave in terms of what others expect us to do
B
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A) Low family median income B) High rates of poverty C) High rates of racial intermarriage D) High residential segregation
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A) fellatio B) vulva C) cunnilingus D) coitus
A low income child is struggling in math. He lives in a culture that attributes his failure to lack of intelligence. This backdrop is a matter of
a. chance. b. choice. c. context. d. opinion.
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a. The patterns of consumption changed both in the amounts and who drank alcoholic beverages. b. The ingredients in rum no longer changed Christian Americans into "devils." c. After Prohibition, alcohol consumption became socially acceptable. d. Women began drinking more during the Roaring Twenties.