Consumerism
a. Is a relatively new phenomenon
b. Is a fascination about acquiring things beyond what one needs
c. Is only relevant to upper classes
d. Is dysfunctional in capitalist societies
b. Is a fascination about acquiring things beyond what one needs
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a. Those who are most deprived are not necessarily those most likely to participate in social movements. b. Individuals participate in social movements on behalf of groups to which they do not belong. c. Relative-deprivation theory focuses too much on the underlying causes of the deprivation and the conditions that lead to organization of a movement. d. The theory does not specify the conditions under which deprivations will lead to social movements.
Overall, the result of the 1996 federal welfare reform has been__________.
A. to increase in the number of people receiving welfare assistance B. to end of the policy of providing cash assistance to any poor people C. to bring about a steady decrease in the poverty rate D. to decrease the number of people receiving welfare but with little change to the number of poor people
The problem of functional illiteracy means that
a. many young people leave school without having learned basic skills. b. many older people have forgotten the lessons they learned in school. c. a significant share of U.S. children never attend school. d. many teachers in U.S. schools do not know how to teach.
There are ______ stages associated with demographic transition.
A. one B. two C. three D. four