Explain the “lack of historicity” that strangers often experience.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. A lack of the shared memory of those with whom they live.
2. Human beings who interact together over a period of time “grow old together.” Strangers, however, are “young” so as newcomers they experience at least an approximation of the freshness of childhood.
3. They are aware of things that go unnoticed by the natives, such as the natives’ customs, social institutions, appearance, and lifestyle.
4. Also existing within the natives’ taken-for-granted world are social constructions of race and ethnicity that, to the stranger, are new realities.
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From the conflict perspective, family forms change when ________
a. existing family forms cause dysfunction and disorganization in the society b. people are socialized to accept their society's form of the family as natural c. new groups acquire the power necessary to gain acceptance for a new form of family d. people want a drastic change in society to establish stability and equilibrium
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The availability of FHA mortgages for blacks increased the movement of blacks into white neighborhoods. 2. Desegregation efforts in public schools have reduced the chances that black children will attend schools in which they are the numerical majority. 3. The idea of a "glass ceiling" means that women and minorities have limited access to career and occupational mobility. 4. By the dawn of the Civil War, only a very small part of the southern economy depended on slave labor. 5. Brown v. Board of Education (1951) was a signal that American society was growing intolerant of educational segregation for black school children.
Why do repeated-measures designs have so much power?
What will be an ideal response?
Why are household maids marginal?
a. The work is devalued. b. The work is unpleasant. c. The household is a small, non-bureaucratized workplace d. Maids have little occupational power e. all of the above