In her interview with Dalton Conley, Devah Pager discusses her fieldwork in Milwaukee and New York, in which she sent out job applicants, both black and white, with half of them pretending to have prison records. Pager found that having a criminal record negatively affected an applicant's ability to be offered a job. In addition, she found that black applicants were far less likely to be called back for an interview than white applicants. This racial disparity in hiring indicates unconscious stereotypes in the minds of the hirers, in addition to the challenge of a criminal record's
a.) stigma.
b.) secondary deviance.
c.) class solidarity.
d.) organic solidarity.
Answer: a.) stigma.
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Barbara Ehrenreich studied inequality in everyday life as it is experienced by workers in jobs that paid $8.00 an hour or less. Ehrenreich's approach is one that a __________ would take
a. functionalist b. conflict theorist c. symbolic interactionist d. feminist
A key principle in the sociology of Emile Durkheim was:
a. agreement with Marx that violent revolution was the major source of social change b. the view that sociology is the "queen of sciences" c. that the rise of bureaucracy is critical to understanding social change d. concerned with the changes in societies as they become larger
War is a frequent and inevitable condition of human existence.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Research indicates that the most vulnerable low-SES families are those formed by adolescents. Which of the following, if true, is most likely to strengthen this finding?
A) Families formed by adolescents often receive resources and support from their families.
B) Teenage parents don't have a strong parenting alliance in raising children.
C) Research indicates that adolescents in the past tended to be less responsible than they are today.
D) Adolescents are more inclined to maintain and nurture relationships with their partners.