Despite legislation prohibiting racial discrimination and decades of enforcement of civil rights legislation, neighborhoods in the United States still tend to be racially segregated. Owners, landlords, real estate agents, and apartment managers often use informal mechanisms to maintain their properties for "whites only." This is an example of _______.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
de facto segregation
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A Z score of 2.0 came from a distribution with a mean of 80 and a standard deviation of 10
What is the raw score? A) 82 B) 90 C) 100 D) 170
Professor Hall was planning to do a field study of hitchhikers. Hall wanted to be sure that persons representing all different age, racial, and sex categories were included in the sample of hitchhikers. What kind of sampling scheme would you recommend?
a. deviant cases b. quota sampling c. stratified sampling d. snowball sampling e. cluster sampling
In Robert K. Merton's study of deviance, the acceptance of both the cultural goals of society and the accepted means of achieving them is termed:
a. conformity b. innovation c. retreatism d. ritualism
A recent poll reported that _________ percent of Americans disagree that school prayer violates the separation of church and state
A. 25 B. 35 C. 50 D. 60