Identify the differences between blue-collar, white-collar, pink-collar, and gold-collar occupations.
What will be an ideal response?
Blue collar: based primarily on manual labor (factory workers, agricultural laborers, truck drivers, and miners). White collar: require mainly analytic skills or formal education (doctors, lawyers, and business managers). Pink collar: jobs that primarily employ women in semiskilled, low-paid service positions (waitresses, sales clerks, and receptionists). Gold collar: young professionals who command huge salaries and high occupational positions very early in their professional careers.
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In Stanley Milgram's classic experiment, Obedience to Authority, he discovered that obedience was founded on
a. the firm command of a person with a status that gave minimal authority over a subject recruited to participate in the study. b. the subject's fear of being punished physically if he or she disobeyed. c. the subject's dislike of the learner's physical characteristics. d. the subject's firm belief that learning is enhanced when failure is punished.
Which of these statements is false regarding bereavement?
a. Bereaved persons are sanctioned by otther when they do not conform to the bereavement role as prescribed by American cultural expectations. b. People in bereavement are expected to become dependent on others and seek competent professional assistance. c. Part of the bereavement role is the expectation that the bereaved will return to normal social responsibilities as soon as possible. d. The time intervals between the intense experiences of grief remain constant with the passing of time.
Most people have used the ________ perspective in thinking about families throughout most of history.
A. private B. optimist C. functionalist D. public
After cancer and heart disease, suicide accounts for more years of life lost than any other cause of death in the United States.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.