Which country was first to pass a national minimum wage law in 1894?

a. the United States
b. the United Kingdom
c. New Zealand
d. Norway


c. New Zealand

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a. independent variable b. dependent variable c. hypothesis d. outcomes

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The imitation stage is a stage of social development proposed by Mead.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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There is a correlation of .445 between the percentage of families below the poverty line and the percentage of families headed by unmarried females. Suppose a researchers believes this correlation is the caused by the fact that marriages which face economic hardships are more likely to end in divorce, thereby producing more female-headed households. The researcher in this example would say that

_____________ is the independent variable. a. the percentage of families below the poverty line; the percentage of female-headed families b. the percentage of female-headed families; the percentage of families below the poverty line c. the female employment rate; the percentage of female-headed families d. either a or b above

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The belief that those in power choose to "blame the victim" rather than accept any responsibility for poverty best illustrates ______.

A. functionalism B. symbolic interactionism C. conflict theory D. integrative theory

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