A situation in which people lack the resources to satisfy the basic needs no person should be without is known as
a. Relative poverty
b. Life chances
c. Absolute poverty
d. Social inequality
Answer: c. Absolute poverty
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A) educational inflation B) credentialism C) educational upgrading D) deskilling
If a researcher is out looking for participants who are interested in doing more community service, which type of sampling may be used to find the participants?
a. proportional sampling b. non-proportional sampling c. purposive sampling d. deviant case sampling
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.
The effects of the burst housing bubble fell disproportionately on minorities. By 2009 some 1.5 million homes, owned mostly by _____, were lost through subprime foreclosures
a. all minorities combined b. Asian Americans c. Latinos d. African Americans