A social group toward which a person feels competition or opposition is

a. an in-group.
b. an out-group.
c. a reference group.
d. a social network.


b

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A) Food (a minimal nutritionally adequate diet), basic housing, and clothing B) A job, decent rental apartment, and food C) Owning a house, high quality child care, health coverage, and savings for college D) health care, transportation, retirement, and savings to meet emergencies

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In 1954, the Supreme Court replaced segregation with legal integration, and in 1968 the Fair

Housing Act banned discrimination in housing. In the present-day United States, what proportion of the population lives in same-race neighborhoods and attends same-race schools? A) Hardly any B) Around a quarter to a third C) Almost half D) Most

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Which of the following is the BEST reason why researchers often enter data directly into their software of choice?

a. It will be easily imported. b. If a file needs to be converted from one program to another, it may be corrupted. c. The process is harder to do. d. They get a better understanding of the dataset.

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Which French sociologist’s emphasis on freedom combined with his critiques of equality and centralization led him to be extremely critical of both democracy and socialism?

A. Alexis de Tocqueville B. Claude Henri Saint-Simon C. Auguste Comte D. Émile Durkheim

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