The United States has ______ social mobility than comparable nations.
A. less 284
B. more
C. about the same
D. indifferent
A. less 284
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All of the following are reasons stated in your text for why elders were accorded high status in early American society EXCEPT
a. it was a family value to honor older people and one’s ancestors. b. because so few people lived into later life, old age was a marker of exclusivity. c. frail elders were viewed as closer to the stage of rebirth as one of God’s holy angels. d. because the aged were closer to death, they were believed to serve as mediators between this world and the next.
Primary structural assimilation is greater for Hispanics than ______.
A. African Americans or American Indians B. African Americans or Asian Americans C. Jewish Americans or American Indians D. African Americans or Italian Americans
Which of the following concepts refers to the variant normative priorities of social systems, the dominant modes of orientation in personality systems, and the patterns of values in cultural systems?
a. role-set b. cultural system c. pattern variables d. gesellschaft
Symbols that can be strung together in an infinite number of ways for the purpose of communicating abstract thought is referred to as __________.
a. ethnocentrism b. technology c. language d. body gestures