Over the last two decades,
a. polluting industries have contributed huge sums to congressional campaigns in order to slow down pollution-control efforts.
b. Congress has passed no new environmental protection legislation.
c. corporations have been reluctant to move into southern and southwestern states because of stringent pollution controls there.
d. the EPA has vigorously enforced air quality standards.
a
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A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power is called
A. socialization. B. status. C. social structure. D. social inequality.
Sociologists define work as
A. participation in any activity that increases the gross domestic product. B. human activity that is paid by either hourly wage or salary. C. productive activity that creates something of value—goods or services. D. human activity in the public sphere.
Professor Stone designs a study to examine the effect of a teenage pregnancy on young women's career choices. Stone wants to interview a sample of teenage women during their pregnancy, after the baby's birth, and once a year after that for a ten year period. Stone is using a
a. cross sectional design. b. trend study. c. cohort study. d. panel study. e. experimental study.
What type of experimental design is best when ethical concerns prevent the ability of the researcher to perform a true controlled experiment?
a. a Solomon four group design b. a pretest-posttest design c. a quasi-experimental design d. a natural experiment e. a posttest only control group experimental design