Early in the twentieth century, Emory Bogardus developed the social distance scale to measure __________.
A. how far apart people stand when they speak to each other
B. prejudice directed at various minority categories
C. extremes of poverty and wealth
D. the rate of intermarriage between people in various categories of the population
Answer: B
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