The group in society made up of the unemployed who can be put to work during times of high production and then laid off when they are no longer needed is called ________
A) the reserve labor force
B) the underclass
C) the dual labor force
D) a back-up resource
A
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According to Mary Waters in "Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?" White ethnics fail to recognize:
a. the difference between individualistic symbolic ethnic identity and a socially enforcedand imposed racial identity b. the similarity between individualistic symbolic ethnic identity and a socially enforced andimposed racial identity. c. that some ethnicities are more important than others. d. that all ethnicities are merely symbolic in today's worlds.
The text points out that young adulthood in the U.S. is the time when: a. people are expected to marry, get a job, and have children
b. people are expected to marry, but continue their education. c. people experience great bodily change. d. chronic illness sets in.
Sociologists Theodore Caplow and Louis Hicks have defined ________ as conflict between organizations that possess trained combat forces equipped with deadly weapons.
A. terrorism B. war C. pluralism D. strife
__________ has increasingly come to be the form of treatment for mental illness
A) Prescribed medication B) Lifelong isolation in asylums C) Group therapy D) Social epidemiology