In a meritocracy __________
a. rewards are linked to personal ability
b. caste, more than any other factor, influences life chances
c. personal connections have a disproportionately high impact on life chances
d. persons from an upper-class background will have fewer life chances than other members of the same society
a
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The newest nation in the world is __________, which officially gained its independence in 2002, after over four centuries as a Portuguese colony
a. East Timor b. Zanzibar c. Montenegro d. Uzbekistan
Research on gender and race in education has found the following
A) Latino boys are praised more than their Caucasian contemporaries. B) African American girls are disciplined less by teachers than African American boys. C) African American boys are disciplined less by teachers than African American girls. D) both A and B
Remarried couples tend to perceive their new relationships as more equitable than their first marriages. Why is this?
a) Women have fewer levels of financial resources in their second marriages than in their first. b) Women seek more power because of specific experiences in their prior marriages. c) Men concede less during marital conflicts than they did in their first marriages d) Both remarried men and women have more rigid ideas about their roles in marriage. e) Actually, remarried couples tend to perceive their new relationship as less equitable than their first marriages.
Max Weber defined ________ as the ability to exercise one's will over others.
A. control B. status C. class D. power