The European organizational form created in the 16th century to buy and sell around the world, often requiring a navy and thousands of armed men to carry this out, was:
a. a government corporation, owned and operated by civil servants at taxpayer expense
b. a private corporation, such as the British East India Company
c. a non-profit organization that paid its employees and gave the state any profits
d. None of the above. It was a pre-corporate organization that proved less capable than later corporate-structured trading companies
b. a private corporation, such as the British East India Company
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a. how a criminal behavior is learned. b. how an act comes to be labeled as deviant. c. the function of deviance. d. obedience to authority.
Which one of the following people is least likely to have voted in the 2016 presidential election?
A. Eleanor, a sixty-year-old public school teacher in Dubuque, Iowa B. Juan, a twenty-year-old high school dropout from Corpus Christi, Texas C. Martin, a forty-five-year-old African American with a Ph.D. in divinity in Los Angeles D. Patricia, a twenty-eight-year-old white woman, who attended a year of community college in New Hampshire before having two children
Why do we lose rights to make certain decisions about our own behavior when we join a group?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following is a component of the pretransition stage of demographic transition?
A. Low birth rates and death rates with little population growth. B. Declining death rates, along with low to medium fertility, resulting in significant population growth. C. High birth rates and death rates with little population growth. D. High death rates, with low fertility.