Trial court judges issue written explanations for their decisions, called opinions

a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false


False

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What legislation provides the legal basis for today's employment practices?

A. Affirmative Action B. The Bill of Rights C. The Civil Rights Act D. The Equal Opportunity Act

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Positivists social science is _____________________

a. a critical process of inquiry that generates liberating knowledge so as to reveal structural and cultural inhibiting forces in an attempt to help people change their living conditions and build a better world for themselves. b. an approach to research that emphasizes the systematic analysis and detailed study of people and text in order to arrive at understandings and interpretations of how people construct and maintain meaning within their social worlds c. a method for combining deductive logic with precise empirical observations in order to discover and confirm a set or probabilistic causal laws that can be used to predict general patterns of human activity d. a philosophical position that views reality and causal processes as fairly straightforward and determinable through scientific observation

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The U.S. is a

a. politically united country b. politically diverse nation c. country of few cultural influences d. non-competitive country

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Which of the following statements is "not true" in regards to "mobs?"

A. a crowd develops into a mob when all or most members of the crowd have been instilled with a purpose and intend to carry out their purpose, regardless of the consequences. B. Transformation from a crowd to a mob can be made by the urgings of a forceful crowd leader, the appearance of an individual of importance to the crowd, or the accomplishment of an act of violence. C. A mob reaches a "calming stage "when acts of violence are committed.

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