As international treaties on the environment were secured,
a. Countries did not feel as though they had to enforce them
b. Non-governmental organizations arose to lobby the public
c. International governmental agencies increased in number
d. Non-governmental organizations decreased their activities
c. International governmental agencies increased in number
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Which of the following was discussed in the text as occurring with interracial/ inter-ethnic couples as compared to same-race couples?
(a) there is a high percentage of insecure attachment (b) they have drastically lower self-esteem (c) they are sometimes viewed less positively than are same-race couples (d) there is a greater risk of physical abuse
The earliest Japanese immigrants were primarily:
a. men who came to work on sugar plantations in the Hawaiian Islands in the 1860s b. families coming to make their home in the United States c. single women seeking husbands d. women and men being "pushed" out of their homeland by political and religious oppression
Which of the following statements best describes the meaning of the 19.8, in the upper-left corner of Figure 5.2?
A researcher is interested to know whether people of different class backgrounds tend to hold different ideas about democracy. He creates Figure 5.2, where CLASS is a variable that indicates respondents’ sense of themselves as lower-class, working-class, middle-class, or upper-class. DEMTODAY is a variable corresponding to the question “On the whole, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is very poorly and 10 is very well. How well does democracy work in America today?” The researcher re-coded DEMTODAY with the command “DEMTODAY (R: 0-2; 3-5; 6-7; 8-10).”
a. Of all the respondents surveyed, 19.8 % of respondents identified as lower-class and believed that democracy in America is not working well at all.
b. Of the respondents who believed that democracy in America is not working at all, 19.8% described themselves as being from the lower-class.
c. Of those respondents described themselves as lower-class, 19.8 believed that democracy in America is not working at all.
d. About 20 people surveyed identified as lower-class and believed that democracy in America is not working well at all.
According to Karl Marx, which of the following is a characteristic of the proletariat?
A. They could create a classless society if they develop a class consciousness. B. They control the means of production. C. They control the norms and values of society. D. They hold the power in society.