When a wealthy person’s Facebook page is filled with photos of the many weekdays they spend playing golf at expensive golf courses as a hobby instead of in the office, it exemplifies Veblen’s concept of:
a. extravagance
b. conspicuous consumption
c. class egotism
d. conspicuous leisure
d. conspicuous leisure
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a. more b. less c. equally
Which of the following is true about roles?
a. a person can only occupy one role at a time b. throughout the day we play multiple roles c. once in a particular role our behavior is static over the life course d. all roles are assigned to us
Which of the following regions had the highest old-age dependency ratio in 2000?
A. Africa B. Latin America C. North America D. Europe
Tannenbaum's explanation of the "dramatization of evil" is most closely associated with which of the following theoretical schools of thought?
A. functionalism B. conflict theory C. symbolic interaction D. feminist theory