In 2010, the life expectancy of a person in the United States was ________.

A. 54.1
B. 81.1
C. 78.3
D. 47.3


Answer: C

Sociology

You might also like to view...

Adam Carter, the CEO of a multinational corporation, is a reluctant liberal. Which of the following would be the best way to influence Adam to display less discriminatory behavior?

a. advocating equal-opportunity legislation b. inviting him to a diversity workshop c. commissioning a public relations campaign d. encouraging him to become an all-weather bigot

Sociology

A student states that technological societies are better than agrarian societies. How would a sociologist respond based on cultural relativism?

A. Each society needs to be judged on its own merits rather than compared to each other. B. As societies progress, they get typically improve and grow. C. Technological societies are the most advanced societies that can exist. D. Agrarian societies establish stronger cultural bonds and should be judged accordingly.

Sociology

Which of the following situations is most likely to have mechanisms for retraining workers in new technology?

a. an informal sector firm in Malaysia b. a maquiladora c. a centrally planned factory in China d. a German works council e. a firm in the Japanese secondary sector

Sociology

Which of these is the process by which an individual learns and generally comes to accept the ways of a group or a society of which he or she is a part?

A. ethnomethodology B. socialization C. dramaturgy D. psychoanalysis

Sociology