The postindustrial era has moved from production processes where things are made to processes that create, process, store, and apply ideas and information.

a. true
b. false


Ans: a. true

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All of the following are likely to happen in the marketing of drugs, EXCEPT:

A. A drug is approved to treat high blood pressure, but a doctor prescribes it to treat headaches.  B. A doctor turns to the Physicians’ Desk Reference, a manual written by drug manufacturers, to decide which drug to prescribe a patient with nausea.  C. A doctor refuses to prescribe a drug to address baldness because baldness is a normal human condition and not a disease.  D. A pharmaceutical company sends salespeople to a doctor’s office about four times each month.  E. A doctor prescribes a drug that a salesperson promoted to them, even though there is another drug for the same condition that is less costly and more effective. 

Sociology

Identify two factors in the development of rational industrial organization.

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

The main criticism put forward by opponents of bilingual education is that

A. earlier groups of immigrants learned English without these programs. B. these programs are not effective. C. these programs cost too much. D. it undermines the social and political integration that education has traditionally promoted.

Sociology

Which part of Norbert Elias’s history of manners is concerned with the ways the bedroom became less and less of a public space?

a. Behavior at the table b. Natural functions c. Blowing one’s nose d. Sexual relations

Sociology