The emergency room clerk who keeps a bleeding patient waiting while filling out lots of paperwork is a classic example of bureaucratic ________

a. ritualism.
b. alienation.
c. innovation.
d. inertia.


Answer: a

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a. Latin America b. Sub-Saharan Africa c. The Middle East d. Eastern Asia

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A guiding principle of the __________ perspective is that human experience is not uniform and cannot be generalized to all people

(a) conflict (b) functionalist (c) interactionist (d) social-constructionist

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The percentage of people who cohabit __________________ since 1980

a. decreased dramatically b. stayed the same c. increased slightly d. more than doubled

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