Which of the following was a common criticism of Exxon's actions after the 1989 Valdez disaster?
A. Exxon agreed to fund only those sociologists who were known to be in favor of Exxon's policies and actions.
B. No legal scholars were approached to do research on jury deliberations.
C. Exxon did not pay sociologists well enough for the research they did on jury deliberations.
D. Exxon did not volunteer to fund research on clean-up technologies or long-term environmental costs.
Answer: D
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Which of the following statements is true about redemptive social movements?
A. They are based on spiritual or supernatural beliefs. B. They form immediately after an earlier movement has succeeded in creating change. C. They bring change in society through the use of violence and intimidation. D. They seek limited change and only for some people. E. They try to preserve the status quo by blocking change or undoing change that has already occurred.
Which assumption about level of measurement is made for the Chi square test?
a. all variables are at least ordinal in level of measurement b. all variables are at least interval-ratio in level of measurement c. all variables are nominal in level of measurement d. at least one variable must be ordinal in level of measurement
Stereotypes
a. aid our understanding of people. b. get in the way of our understanding people. c. have little to do with our ability to understand people. d. deepen our understanding of others.
A small group of individuals holds power in a(n)
a. oligarchy. b. representative democracy. c. dictatorship. d. direct democracy.