What can you say about where in the world literacy rates are high and low? Where does the United States stand in terms of literacy?
What will be an ideal response?
- Literacy is the ability to read and write.
- More than 750 million of the world's adults (about one in six) are illiterate.
- Illiteracy rates are high-often more than 50 percent-in poor regions of the world.
- Most young people living in rich nations complete both primary and secondary school.
- In the United States, 89 percent of adults over the age of twenty-five have completed high school.
- The United States is second in the world (after Israel) in the share of its adult population that goes to college. Thirty-three percent of the U.S. population age twenty-five and older has a four-year college or university degree.
- As many as 30 million Americans (17 percent of the population) are functionally illiterate.
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A. Organization B. Technology C. Social change D. Collective behavior E. Ethics
Formal organizations a. are secondary groups that are organized to accomplish complex tasks efficiently
b. may be very small or very large. c. are not relevant to most people's lives. d. are generally organized around kinship or friendship.
In Switzerland, four ethnic groups—French, Italians, Germans, and Swiss Germans—maintain their distinct cultural heritage and group identity in an atmosphere of mutual respect and social equality. This is an example of a. pluralism
b. assimilation. c. colonialism. d. acculturation.
Age terrorism refers to
a. mass media that depicts elders as unattractive and incompetent. b. the exploitation of women’s fears of growing older. c. violent crime against the elderly by youths. d. a politically subversive militia group which targets elders who hold great political or economic power.