Discuss the consequences of poverty. Which of these consequences do you think is most serious? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
The student should assert that consequences include greater exposure to environmental toxins, poor diet, higher rates of alcohol and smoking, chronically higher levels of unemployment, loss of insurance, and depression and other mental illnesses. The student should discuss these consequences and indicate his/her (supported) opinion concerning which is the most serious.
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a. have some form of stratification. b. develop a caste system. c. encourage the formation of elites. d. provide rewards equitably.
Increasingly, marriage has become
a. an institutional imperative. b. a choice. c. an unequal arrangement.
The conflict perspective would emphasize that __________
A) industrialists often used Syrian/Lebanese men to strengthen unions in the Northeast B) the Syrian/Lebanese offered factory owners a more expensive and more skilled labor alternative C) economic competition between two wage level groups generated ethnic antagonism and violence D) better-educated immigrants become functionally integrated fairly easily
Social distance studies measure
A) how far neighbors like to have their houses apart. B) the attitudes of college students to members of racial and ethnic groups. C) how many immigrants are from a particular region. D) which social groups have the most resources in society.