In the late 1800s and early 1900s, immigrants and guest workers to the United States often came as

a. industrial and railroad laborers
b. nurses and physicians
c. small businesspeople and itinerant merchants
d. childcare workers for working women


a. industrial and railroad laborers

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a. causal attributions of older adults are more likely to be dispositional in nature. b. negative stereotypes are activated when we are unaware of them. c. patronizing speech is common among nursing home workers. d. personal control is related to memory performance.

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The richest 20 percent of U.S. families earn __________.

A. almost as much as the remaining 80 percent of families combined B. about as much as the poorest 40 percent of families combined C. about 20 percent of all income D. only slightly more than the national average

Sociology

A hypothesis-testing procedure that examines how well an observed frequency distribution of a single nominal variable fits some expected pattern of frequencies is a(n)

A) chi-square test for independence. B) chi-square test for goodness of fit. C) observed frequency test. D) multiple correlation.

Sociology

In the General Social Survey, 8 percent of Americans identify as

A. lower class B. upper class C. working class D. middle class

Sociology