In the United States, the major function of the Horatio Alger myth is to:

a. eliminate the need for formal education
b. legitimize the current patterns of inequality
c. make the class system more open
d. motivate the poor to work harder


B

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a. Exploitation is most associated with gender inequality, domination with class inequality. b. Domination is most associated with gender inequality, discrimination with class inequality. c. Exploitation is most associated with race inequality, discrimination with gender inequality. d. Domination is most associated with gender inequality, exploitation with class inequality.

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__________ refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, goods, and services, and information across national borders and throughout the world

a. Postindustrialization b. Cybernation c. Globalization d. Modernization e. Bureaucratization

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A strong predictor of aggressive and violent delinquency has been linked to which type of media?

a. television b. cartoons c. video games p. 166 d. movies

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Whichofthefollowingisnota typeofcellintheimmunesystem?

A. cell-mediatedimmunity B. B-lymphocytes C. autoimmunity D. nonspecificimmunity

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