The concept "retrospective labeling" refers to the process of

a. interpreting someone's past consistent with present deviance.
b. defining someone as deviant for things done long before.
c. criminal adults encouraging their children to become deviant.
d. predicting someone's future based on past deviant acts..


a

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a. Smith v. Allwright b. Brown v. Board of Education c. Plessy v. Ferguson d. Williams v. Mississippi

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The Weberian Paradox refers to the fact that

a. our personal security depends on impersonal bureaucracies. b. modern life disillusions us but we have no patience for traditional solutions. c. we can feel lonely in a crowd. d. despite a modern lifestyle we have a nostalgic longing for the past.

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What is the general relationship between income and divorce?

a. Higher income people have higher divorce rates. b. Lower income people have higher divorce rates. c. Income and divorce are not related.

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Compare and contrast cultural capital and conspicuous consumption. Provide examples.

What will be an ideal response?

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