In the judgment of the text book author, the worsening plight of many minority group members can be best explained by looking at
a. Social institutions and related organizations
b. Individual sources of prejudice
c. Why minorities don't assimilate
d. Ways to stop deliberate discrimination
ANS: a
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Established scientists control research by editing and reviewing articles, deciding who receives research grants, and ensuring that scientific research conforms to what they think is worthy. They
A) act as gatekeepers. B) ensure that science is open to new methods and discoveries. C) tend to be egalitarian in terms of funding research from minorities and women. D) All of these choices are correct.
Receiving the Medal of Honor and making the Dean's List are both examples of ________
A) value contradictions B) folkways C) positive sanctions D) value clusters
Peter Berger describes modernization in terms of several important changes. Read the responses below and select the one that is NOT a pattern of change that Berger links to modernity
a. a smaller share of people living in urban places b. the expansion of personal choice c. increasing social diversity d. a future orientation and growing awareness of time
For Lyotard, what is the underlying problem we suffer in “the postmodern condition”?
a. Inability to form universal truth b. All interaction based upon capitalist relations. c. Inability to generate a plurality of voices. d. All social relations subsumed by rationality.