Data on members of Congress indicate that they are disproportionately:
a. white, male, and 50-59 years old.
b. male, Hispanic and white, and 45-65 years old.
c. male, white, and 45-55 years old.
d. white, male or female, and 60-70 years old.
e. white, over 60, and major business owners.
A
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Read the four statements below. Which statement is NOT correct?
a. Young children who gain skills in their native language and also in English outperform one-language children on achievement tests. b. Gaining bilingual skills has great value in today's global economy. c. Bilingual education encourages people to see some cultural traditions as better than others. d. English immersion seeks to "Americanize" children by teaching them the dominant culture.
Discrimination is defined as ________
a. the efforts to ensure that hazardous substances are controlled so that all communities receive protection regardless of race or socioeconomic circumstance b. the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups for prejudices or other arbitrary reasons c. a more inclusive term than income and encompasses all of a person's material assets, including land, stocks, and other types of property d. the positive effort to recruit subordinate-group members, including women, for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities
There are two central assumptions in functionalist theory. What are they?
A. Reality is a co-construction and that structure forms a critical aspect of co-construction of reality. B. Daily life involves power imbalance and that the structure of the modern family helps to reduce these imbalances. C. The main function of families is to procreate and socialize children that for the family to perform its needed function in society its basic structure needs to be maintained. D. None of the above.
From a sociological standpoint, religion
a. does not ever confirm actual truths in the universe. b. all functions of religion are positive. c. serves the individual, not society. d. may create problems within society.