The likelihood a person will be arrested for a street crime rises sharply:
a. during the late teenage years. c. during the middle thirties.
b. in the late twenties. d. over age forty.
a. during the late teenage years.
You might also like to view...
The mechanization of farming displaced agricultural workers from the farm to the cities. When industrial opportunities weren't present in the cities, many migrants became poor. This reflects the __________ explanation of persistent poverty
a. value-stretch b. cultural c. structural d. cultural-situational e. adaptation
All of the following are drawbacks of experiments EXCEPT:
a. they may be unethical. b. subjects often behave differently in an experiment. c. since they occur in unnatural environments, it is difficult to generalize from them. d. they are unable to explore cause and effect.
According to this book, what is the most probable effect of past-in-present discrimination on the economic marginality of the black middle class?
A. They are more likely to work in the secondary labor market. B. They are more likely to be motivated to succeed. C. They are more likely to benefit from affirmative action than Whites. D. They are likely to lag far behind middle-class Whites in economic resources.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Max Weber argued that the actions of individuals and groups can be understood solely in economic terms. 2. Even if stratification is inevitable, the functionalist explanation for differential rewards does not explain the wide disparity between the rich and the poor. 3. Conflict sociologists argue that stratification will inevitably lead to instability and to social change. 4. Stratification is universal, in that all societies maintain some form of social inequality among members.