Mark is a new immigrant in a country. He gets acquainted with several local people. However, when he compares himself with them, he feels that they have more opportunities and are more successful than him. Therefore, Mark is experiencing ________
a. relative deprivation
b. redlining
c. absolute deprivation
d. reverse discrimination
a
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Nineteenth-century feminists supported making abortion illegal because they thought that
a. women should take responsibility for their children. b. life begins at conception. c. legal abortion allowed men to be promiscuous and avoid responsibility for causing pregnancy. d. legal abortion allowed women to be promiscuous and avoid responsibility for becoming pregnant.
Davis and Moore state that a(n)______ system gives greater importance to the motivation to achieve positions, whereas a(n)______ system gives perhaps greater importance to the motivation to perform the duties of the positions.
a. antiquated; ubiquitous b. ubiquitous; antiquated c. noncompetitive; competitive d. competitive; noncompetitive
Pager's article is an experiment that is devised to test which of the following correlations?
a. the effect of race on the employability of black and white men who have been incarcerated. b. the effect of a criminal record on the educational attainments of black and white men. c. the effect of incarceration on men and women. d. the effect of gender on the employability of people who have a criminal record.
Explain how the "model minority" stereotype may be harmful for Asian Americans and other minority groups.
What will be an ideal response?