A Mexican-American manager is attempting to climb his way to the top of the corporate ladder. He works as hard, if not harder than his white male colleagues, but nothing he does seems to help him advance. He begins to notice that white males are being promoted, but Latinos tend to be overlooked for advancements. The realization that many Latinos are experiencing the same discrimination as he is an example of:
a) ethnocentrism
b) sociological imagination
c) discrimination
d) social cohesion
e) cultural script
b) sociological imagination
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a. Albright Plan b. Baker Plan c. Southern Plan d. Marshall Plan
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a. Excruciatingly painful, as these people did not accept their atheist identity and made them feel terrible about giving about religion. b. As commonplace, in which their telling others that they were atheists was met by a series of nonchalant and uncaring reactions by most others. c. As liberating, a positive experience that tended to produce greater confidence in what they decided and a greater stake in that new identity. d. There was no one way that atheists experienced their coming out, and all three ways above were seen as examples of ways atheists told others about their new identity.
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a. true b. false