The authors discuss two qualitative studies:
Paul Willis's Learning to Labor and Jay MacLeod's Ain't No Makin' it. Which statement best describes the topic of Learning to Labor?
A. It is about job training.
B. It is about factory work.
C. It is about drug dealing.
D. It is about school failure.
E. It is about the conditions of prison labor.
D
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Which of the following statements is true of the social construction of race in Puerto Rico?
a. The presence of a color gradient in Puerto Rico rather than two or three racial categories means less prejudice. b. Racial identification in Puerto Rico depends a great deal on the attitude of an individual making the judgment. c. Puerto Rico has suffered interracial conflict and violence because of different racial heritages. d. Studies concur that race is as clear-cut an issue in Puerto Rico as it is on the mainland.
Sue is an expert in interpreting gestures, silence, the use of space, and expressions people make in their daily interactions. In view of this, how would Sue's expertise be defined?
A) Sue is a social linguist. B) Sue is an expert in multiculturalism. C) Sue recognizes the importance of globalization. D) Sue is an expert in nonverbal interaction.
The smaller the size of the firm,
a. the larger the technology bill. b. the greater the need for routinization. c. the lower the significance of paperwork. d. the more routine the transactions. e. the lower the level of occupational specialization.
Early social theorist Georg Simmel described interactions in his theories by conceptualizing the dimensions of interactions as ______ and ______.
A. forms; types B. forms; functions C. social class; race D. types; social facts