A key difference between society and culture is

Before 1990, virtually all African Americans descended from people who were brought involuntarily to the United States before the slave trade ended in the nineteenth century

a. true b. false

Two tombstone inscriptions from the American colonial period are cited in the text: "Sleeping, but will someday meet her maker" and "Gone to his eternal reward." What is the most important insight to be gained from these inscriptions?

A. Inscriptions comfort the bereaved. B. Inscriptions should be personalized. C. They show how contrasting ideas about the afterlife can coexist in time. D. They display a shared commonality of belief in time.

Mary was caught gambling and smoking marijuana. She argues that her actions were only affecting her and not harming others because she was engaging in __________, but she served jail time anyway because the state argued that it has a right to uphold the morals of its citizens who are opposed to Mary’s activities

A) a victimless crime B) secondary deviance C) organized crime D) white-collar crime

The sentencing principle that requires an offender to serve a substantial portion of the sentence (usually 85 percent) and reduces the discrepancy between the sentence imposed and actual time spent in prison is called ________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).