Which sociologist observed that people respond not only to the objective features of a situation or person but also to the social meaning that situation or person has for them?
A. William I. Thomas
B. William Graham Sumner
C. Karl Marx
D. Robert Merton
A. William I. Thomas
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What strained relations between the "old" Jewish population and the "new" Jewish arrivals?
A) Ethnic and nationalist prejudices B) Similarity in social class C) Religious homogeneity D) Differing family sizes
________ has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world
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The number of deaths per 1,000 persons as among people ages 15 to 19 years of age is an example of ____
a. crude death rate b. infant mortality rate c. age-specific death rate d. morbidity rate e. life expectancy ratio
In her interview with Dalton Conley, Devah Pager discusses her fieldwork in Milwaukee and New York, in which she sent out job applicants, both black and white, with half of them pretending to have prison records. Pager found that having a criminal record negatively affected an applicant's ability to be offered a job. In addition, she found that black applicants were far less likely to be called back for an interview than white applicants. This racial disparity in hiring indicates unconscious stereotypes in the minds of the hirers, in addition to the challenge of a criminal record's
a.) stigma. b.) secondary deviance. c.) class solidarity. d.) organic solidarity.