The concept of ______, developed by C. Wright Mills, encourages people to identify the ways in which the circumstances in an individual's life are connected to larger social and historical forces.
A. embeddedness
B. class consciousness
C. sociological imagination
D. verstehen
Answer: C
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a. become an increasingly diverse country. b. completely eliminated racial and ethnic inequalities. c. had a majority of immigrants come from European countries. d. seen very little immigration.
What term describes declining religiosity? What factors are correlated with declining religiosity in a country? What is the big exception to these trends? Why might this exception exist?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
Which of the following is a similarity between a medium-security prison and a minimum-security prison?
A. Both have lower staff-to-inmate ratios when compared to a maximum-security prison. B. Both have barred cells. C. Both place greater controls on inmates' freedom of movement than does a maximum-security prison. D. Both pay $34,000 annually to incarcerate an inmate.