In the 1990s, the crack epidemic, which often affected poor, inner-city Black communities, was met with harsher sentencing laws. Today, when opioid overdoses are epidemic in white middle-class communities, the societal response is geared more toward treatment and prevention. This disparity in response is most consistent with which approach?
A. Functionalist
B. Conflict
C. Postmodern
D. Feminist
Answer: B
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A. ideal culture. B. a counterculture. C. a subculture. D. dominant culture.
Which of the following is an example of a total institution?
A. Schuylkill Correctional Facility B. Pine Hill Elementary School C. the Upton Family D. Union College
Compare and contrast education's function as an instrument of social integration with its function as a mechanism for training and social control. Are these necessarily positive functions of education, or can these functions be viewed in a negative light?
What will be an ideal response?
Native reservations, like slave plantations, could be considered paternalistic systems with a colonized group.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)