Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization are called

A. deindustrialization.
B. downsizing.
C. anomie.
D. alienation.


B. downsizing.

Sociology

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a. simply a decision to "do what comes naturally" for money.. b. a gradual process that includes a change in self-identity. c. a rapid process once it is done for the first time. d. not possible for a man.

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Several employees of a major corporation are rated for their degree of job satisfaction. If a particular employee's job satisfaction is rated 8 on a 20-point scale, 8 represents that employee's:

A) frequency B) variable C) score D) percentile

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Children growing up with cohabitating couples differ from children growing up with married couples in that children growing up with cohabitating couples are ________

A) less likely to have academic, emotional, and behavioral problems B) less likely to experience a parent breakup C) more likely to experience domestic violence D) more likely to be living in a rich household

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Researchers compared the levels of hunger and malnutrition in poverty-stricken areas of the United States before and after the implementation of nutrition and food stamp programs. They concluded that the programs

a. actually made the situation worse because it encouraged people to become dependent on government handouts which were discontinued when the funding ran out halfway through the fiscal year. b. had not made much difference in hunger and malnutrition because of bureaucratic misapplication -- too much aid was given to people who did not really need it and too little was given to people who really did need it. c. helped many and reduced hunger and malnutrition by about half but needed to be expanded to help more. d. virtually eliminated hunger and made it difficult to find much evidence of the malnutrition identified in the earlier study.

Sociology