The owner of a car dealership refuses to hire a female applicant not because he feels women are incompetent, but because he fears that customers will be less likely to buy a car from a saleswoman
According to Merton's typology, the owner is being a(n) ________.
a. authoritarian person
b. timid bigot
c. all-weather bigot
d. reluctant liberal
d
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The waste from nuclear facilities is __________
a. only toxic for three years at most b. toxic for a long, long time c. easily rendered harmless d. non-toxic
According to Russell's article, "Inequality in Europe and the United States," workers in Europe receive relatively more of their income as __________, government-provided goods and services, such as health care and child care
a. social wages b. flexible benefits c. untaxable income d. under-the-table pay
In his analysis of the power elite, Mills fails to recognize the power of________
a. the common man b. the political process c. the pressure groups d. the meritocracy
About what share of today's marriages will end in divorce, separation, or dissolution within twenty years?
A. one in ten B. three in ten C. half D. seven in ten