If a pharmaceutical company decides to move
all of its labs from suburban communities because of complaints, and relocates them to poorer communities where they assume people will not complain or have the political backing to force them to move, this would be an example of __________.
A) environmental racism
B) environmental destruction
C) ecological Armageddon
D) environmental inequality
Answer: A
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Income inequality is higher in the United States than in Egypt or Tunisia
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Fundamental to the sociological perspective is that an individual's well-being, in large part, depends upon his or her _____________________
a. work ethic b. good fortune c. astrological sign d. month of birth e. social location
Studies of caregiving for a spouse found
a. caregiving of a spouse with cognitive impairment can demonstrate a gift of love that is deeply satisfying for both parties. b. feelings of emotional closeness inevitably declined with a functional impairment such as incontinence. c. spouses were more effective caregivers of spouses with a cognitive impairment if they were not as emotionally close to the spouse. d. stress was less in caring for chronically ill, than acutely ill, spouses.
Adult socialization refers to the process of:
a. adjusting to the fact that as adults most people never achieve those goals they set early in life b. getting older people to accept retirement and the inevitability of death c. learning the norms of the new statuses we occupy as adults d. rejecting the statuses that we occupy when we are younger