Strategies to maximize profits by designing
products with a limited, useful life or making superficial changes to existing products so that the previous product seems out of date are examples of __________.
A) profit sharing
B) planned obsolescence
C) environmental racism
D) structural-functionalism
Answer: B
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According to the Laumann study of sexual patterns among U.S. adults,
a. almost everyone has about the same amount of sexual experience. b. single people have more sex than married people. c. there are striking differences in sexual experience within the U.S. population. d. in the age of AIDS , almost all sex is limited to married partners.
Which of the following is true of ethnicity?
a. Maintaining ethnicity ensures that the level of assimilation into the dominant culture is limited. b. Ethnicity gives continuity with the past in the form of an effective or emotional tie. c. Members of ethnic groups do not maintain in-group solidarity after leaving ethnic communities. d. Fraternal organizations fail to preserve associations between ethnics who are separated geographically.
People who are considered alcoholics have four symptoms. Which of the following is NOT one of these symptoms?
A. rapid heartbeat and heavy perspiration when drinking B. an uncontrollable urge for intoxication C. not being able to stop drinking once drinking has begun D. the need to drink greater amounts of alcohol to get high
In the Oneida community that existed in New York State from 1840 to 1880, the community members were all married to one another-that is, all the men in the community were married to all the women, and all the women were married to all the men. This is an example of
A. egalitarianism. B. polygamy. C. serial monogamy. D. matrilineal descent.