What is contingent employment?

What will be an ideal response?


Contingent employment is way of hiring workers on a temporary basis, part-time, or on a contract basis. Contingent employees can be let go quickly and easily, and typically do not receive any fringe benefits.

Sociology

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According to Rueschemeyer, Stephens, and Stephens, democracy took root earliest and most firmly in those societies that had experienced

a. the Protestant Reformation b. governmental reform c. high levels of industrialization d. religious freedom

Sociology

Surveys demonstrate that many physicians choose the drugs they prescribe to patients on the basis of medical journal research articles than advertising or presentations by drug company representatives

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology

Place the five steps for computing variance into the correct order:

1. Divide the sum of squared deviations by the number of scores. 2. Subtract the mean from each score. 3. Add the squared deviation scores. 4. Compute the mean of the sample. 5. Square each of the deviation scores. A) 2, 3, 1, 4, 5 B) 5, 1, 2, 4, 3 C) 4, 5, 2, 1, 3 D) 4, 2, 5, 3, 1

Sociology

Same-sex couples:

A. are more readily accepted than interracial families. B. were increasingly accepted from the 1970s to 1980s. C. have to work through the same problems as heterosexual couples. D. face entirely different adjustment issues than do heterosexual couples.

Sociology