A postindustrial economy is based on tertiary sector production—the provision of services rather than goods, as a primary source of livelihood for workers and profit for owners and corporate shareholders. A majority of U.S. jobs are in tertiary sector employment
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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Cities were created for which of the following?
a. expanded market activity b. governmental functions c. ceremonial and religious activities d. a and b above e. all of the above
Which one of the following is one possible explanation of income differences between men and women?
a. Female employees encounter a glass elevator. b. Male employees encounter a glass ceiling. c. Many women leave the workplace to care for children and elderly parents. d. Employers over-invest in childbearing-age women only to see them leave the workforce.
A social psychologist is interested in studying how people experience grief. For each of the following situations, identify the research strategy (experiment, survey, content analysis, or participant observation) that she would be using:
a. To find out how people cope with the loss of loved ones, the psychologist selects a random sample of people and distributes a questionnaire that asks them to provide information about their personal grieving experiences. b. The psychologist attends a grief-counseling meeting and pretends that she is one of the mourners (after having obtained permission from the grief counselor). In this way, she is able to observe firsthand how people express their grief. c. The grief counselor provides the psychologist with several anonymous journals in which people are urged to express their grief by writing down their thoughts and feelings in a stream-of-consciousness manner. The psychologist then reads through the various journal entries in an attempt to find patterns in the way that people experience grief.
When Mary, the owner of a large apartment complex, was deciding whom to rent an open apartment to, she immediately disregarded the application of 84-year-old Millie because Mary does not rent apartments to old women. What is Mary's treatment of Millie best described as?
A. scapegoating B. discrimination C. unintentional discrimination D. institutional racial discrimination