What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
What will be an ideal response?
Varies. In 1951, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered the single most powerful blow to de jure segregation in their ruling on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. This reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1986 and ruled that racially separate facilities are inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional.
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Which of the following is a characteristic of new social movements?
A. focus on the control of symbols and information B. people join for a specific purpose C. consist of networks of inequality D. center on narrow self-interest
Transgender and _______ individuals challenge the existing classifications of gender
a. intersex b. unisexed c. bigendered d. femasculine
Maria and Brian recently gave birth to their first child. Based on sociological findings, what is the likely change in the marital satisfaction that Maria and Brian feel towards one another?
A) It will increase. B) It will decrease. C) It will probably remain the same. D) It is totally unpredictable.
Sociologist __________ believed that deviance is rooted in societal factors such as rapid social change and lack of social integration among people. As social integration (bonding and community involvement) decreased, deviance and crime increased
a. Robert Merton b. Edwin Sutherland c. Walter Reckless d. Emile Durkheim