In her study of the corporation, Rosabeth Kanter
a. compared about twenty-five businesses.
b. relied on questionnaires filled out by a random sample of chief executives.
c. studied many aspects of a single corporation for about a year.
d. set up a laboratory experiment in one section of one corporation.
c
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White and Brinkerhoff (cited by Aulette) examined reasons why parents asked children to do housework. What is the most common reason parents give for wanting children to do housework?
a. It builds character and helps children learn responsibility. b. It helps to keep the household clean when the adults are too busy to do everything. c. Children are messy and should learn to clean up their own messes. d. Children are more likely to appreciate a clean house when they have done the work to make it so.
Which of the following statements is true of tracking?
A. It allows teachers to develop curricula for students with similar ability. B. It creates and reinforces equality among students. C. It involves sorting students based on their racial or ethnic group. D. The effects of tracking decrease over time. E. Teachers tend to have high expectations for low-track students.
In the early 1980s, the widespread fear of an AIDS epidemic emerged in the United States. What is this is an example of?
A. a moral panic B. scapegoating C. an attribution error D. ethnic cleansing
Which of the following is a problem when "multiple passing" occurs?
a. It creates a type of human traffic jam where people can no longer distinguish one ethnicity from another. b. It can lead to cross-discrimination, where a minority group member may suffer from discrimination intended for different minority group. c. It can lead to intra-discrimination, where members of the same minority group, but different generations, treat each other poorly. d. It can mean that a person of one minority group has too many labels applied to them so that their identity is lost.