What best describes social roles?
A. They give us the freedom to explore different personas.
B. They give us guidelines about how to act in our social worlds.
C. They rigidly dictate social behavior.
D. They limit individuals' creativity.
Answer: B
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Among most African Americans and Latinos/as, the retirement process is
a. virtually identical to that of white/Anglo retirees. b. different because prior racial discrimination in the workplace has diminished the opportunities for minority group members to invest in pension plans or save large sums of money toward retirement. c. extremely limited because few have any pension plan or receive Social Security or other retirement benefits. d. similar for both women and men over age 65.
The experimental design uses all of the following except:
A. random sampling B. manipulating a key factor C. a control group D. nonrepresentative sampling
The principal difference between direct personal control and foreman's control is a. in large companies, the hired foreman took the owner's place as supervisor
b. the foreman was elected by the workers. c. the foreman directed the apprenticeship program and selected the best trainees to hire. d. a foreman knew the production technology. e. the foreman was a more skilled worker.
With regard to the role of rich nations, dependency theory ________
a. agrees with modernization theory. b. urges rich nations to invest in poor countries. c. claims rich nations are to blame for global poverty. d. claims rich nations prevent poor countries from "growing for export."