The universal tendency to deprecate the ways of people from other societies as wrong, old-fashioned, inefficient, or immoral and to think of the ways of one's own group as superior is known as ________
a. prejudice
b. ethnocentrism
c. superiority complex
d. positive self-perception
b
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a. wealth b. status c. prestige d. stress
Which of the following has a profound effect on student performance, because when students are overrated, they tend to overproduce and when they are underrated, they underachieve?
a. The Common Core b. Teacher expectations c. Accountability d. Local funding
What is the term for a system of rules that allows us to understand signs and how they relate to each other?
A. needs B. hyperconsumption C. code D. difference
According to which sociological perspective did the media begin expressing concern over downsizing only when it began to impact middle-class managers and white-collar employees?
A. the global perspective B. the conflict perspective C. the functionalist perspective D. the interactionist perspective