C. Wright Mills identified the major decision-makers at the highest levels of corporations, politics, and the armed forces in the United States as the __________.
a. power elite
b. intelligentsia
c. nation’s finest
d. bourgeoisie
Ans: a. power elite
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A) Large and robust B) Intercultural C) Small and fragile D) Prejudiced and ethnocentric
A Marxist analysis of U.S. culture suggests that our competitive and individualistic values reflect ________
a. the values of the "founding fathers." b. trends in Western European history. c. this nation's capitalist economy. d. this nation's family system.
Which period of time is known as the golden age for gays and lesbians in the United States? Who was Harvey Milk and what role did he play in the gay and lesbian social movement?
What will be an ideal response?
__________ refers to people with more wide-ranging, cosmopolitan tastes
A) Cultural omnivores B) Habitus C) Proletariat D) Cultural univores