The United Nations identifies discrimination based upon race, ethnicity, and/or religion as a significant case of poverty worldwide. Identify and discuss two specific examples of work that governments or international organizations are doing to address ethnic, racial, or religious discrimination. In your discussion include the goals of the work as well as the actions being taken to address the issue.
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The text discussed multiple examples of international organization as well as government programs aimed at addressing discrimination based on race, ethnicity or religion. Examples include the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, National Human Rights Institutes, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, etc.
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a. Whites saw whites being punished, while transgressions by blacks got a slap on the wrist at most and blacks didn't understand what the fuss was about. b. Blacks saw blacks being punished, while transgressions by whites got a slap on the wrist at most and whites didn't understand what the fuss was about. c. Blacks believed that the punishment of the young men was correct and whites did not. d. Whites wanted the cases dropped for all the boys and blacks wanted all the boys charged with more severe crimes
What important insights about war and peace do we gain from structural-functional, symbolic-interaction, and social-conflict analyses? How can you use these insights to reduce the likelihood and human costs of war?
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According to lecture, quasi-experiemnal research designs are so named because:
a. they are essentially correlation studies b. the independent variable is measured rather than manipulated c. they do not involve random assignment d. all of the above
SAGE Core Concepts in Sociology: Social InstitutionsClick on the above link to access the Interactive eBook. Once you've signed in, scroll to page 326, and watch the video. When you've finished watching the video, come back to the test, and answer the following questions:Which of the following statements about social institutions is true?
A. Some societies lack social institutions. B. Individuals have discrete, non-contradictory roles within social institutions. C. Social institutions provide rules, roles, and relationships to guide human behavior. D. All sociologists agree that the military, health care, and mass media are key social institutions.