Since the 1980s, the emerging environmental justice movement has focused on the issue of environmental racism—the belief that a disproportionate number of hazardous facilities (including industries such as waste disposal/treatment and chemical plants) are placed in low-income areas populated primarily by people of color
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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The supposedly "open" system of stratification in the United States is not completely open because:
a. the gap between the rich and the poor is impossible for the poor to breach. b. since the system in the U.S. is based primarily on ascribed traits, there is nothing to be done about which strata of the system one belongs in. c. elite parents use their wealth and power to increase their children's chance of future success. d. all of the above
The depression of the survivors was linked primarily to the fact that
a. they no longer had to work hard to maintain community. b. their success as individuals was destroyed. c. their taken-for-granted community was no more. d. they were placed into a foreign structure that they found too limiting.
In the South, most slave women over age 10 worked ________
A) in "the big house" B) as mammies to field owners' children C) as domestic servants D) in the fields
What is the sociological imagination?
A) the application of sociology to imaginary scenarios, as in film and fictional writing B) the ability to see the connection between our individual identities and our social contexts C) the sociological study of play, dreams, and other imaginative activities D) the enhanced imaginative capacity of those who engage in the study of society