A private school seeks an all-white student body. However, administrators of the school know that they will lose federal funding if they are shown to discriminate on the basis of race. They reluctantly agree, therefore, to accept a few blacks. The administrators, in Merton's terms, are:
a. "all-weather liberals."
b. "active bigots."
c. "timid bigots."
d. "fair-weather liberals."
c
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a. the marriage squeeze for highly educated black women b. the marriage gradient for white men c. the marriage squeeze for highly educated white women d. the marriage gradient for black women
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A. as a means of helping working classes gain equality B. as a means of capitalist power and economic domination C. as a means of spreading culture and economic solidarity D. as a means of promoting the local culture of the working class
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A. ethnocentrism. B. segregation. C. discrimination. D. stereotyping.