Which sociological perspective focuses on how the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations divides groups while maintaining a dominant group?
A. feminist
B. interactionist
C. functionalist
D. conflict
Answer: D
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Milton Gordon's ethclass groupings represent
A) the decline of ethnicity as a significant factor in stratification. B) the dominance of ethnicity over social class because of ethnic reawakening. C) the sub societies resulting from the intersection of race or ethnicity and social class. D) a way of studying social class by examining people's ethical understandings of class.
The term "boat people" was used to describe whom?
a. first-generation Vietnamese immigrants b. some second-generation Vietnamese c. all Vietnamese immigrants d. none of the above
Ferraro and Johnson (cited by Aulette) interviewed 120 battered women who passed through a shelter and asked them how they decided to leave the batterers. They found six factors that served as a catalyst for making the change
These include all of the following EXCEPT: a. change in a woman's resources — getting a job or access to a shelter. b. despair — the disappearance of hope that things would get better. c. change in the level of violence — either increased abuse or a change they perceived as a threat to their lives. d. support from the legal system — the arrests of their husbands and the judicial treatment of the battering as a crime.
Explain how counter-enlightenment thought in addition to Enlightenment philosophy and science was also important to the development of sociology.
What will be an ideal response?