Why have some groups historically resisted new technologies? How do Neil Postman's five questions about technology help us to understand and better evaluate the potential consequences of adopting new technologies?

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary.

Sociology

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Is it appropriate to place minority children in White adoptive families? Some have objected, calling it cultural genocide. What does the research suggest?

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

All of the following are reasons for greater impersonalization of death in modern societies EXCEPT

a. life extending medical procedures. b. we choose to deny it more today. c. hospital and insurance bureaucracies. d. secularism.

Sociology

The_____ ushered in agricultural societies

a. use of child labor b. plow c. subsistence economy d. steam engine

Sociology

According to a Gallup poll asking whether racial minorities have equal job opportunities as whites, 62 percent of Hispanics and 81 percent of African Americans said minorities do not have equal opportunities

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology