Based on the conflict perspective, how have the Most Industrialized Nations responded to increased birth rates in the Least Industrialized Nations?
What will be an ideal response
Through the United Nations, the Most Industrialized Nations have launched a campaign of promoting worldwide birth control through the distribution of condoms, IUDs, and other birth control devices. At the same time, the Most Industrialized Nations sell weapons to the ruling elite governments of these countries so they can maintain political stability in case of protests, riots, or other threats caused by the instability of rising birth rates and declining standards of living.
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a. Sigmund Freud b. Edwin Sutherland c. Robert Merton d. William Ryan
The biomedicalized version of aging
a. has reduced prejudice against the elderly. b. focuses primarily on the healthy aged. c. is a comprehensive view of the biological, social, and behavioral aspects of aging. d. limits possibilities for physical, psychological, and spiritual growth in later life.
A(n) ______ is a group within the human species that is identified by a society as presumably having certain biologically inherited physical characteristics.
A. racial group B. ethnic group C. minority group D. out-group
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Homans’s theory assumed individual behavior could be adapted to social situations and animal behavior could be generalized to human behavior. 2. One’s sense of distributive justice arises from their expectations of future exchanges. 3. Homans believed social systems exist as sui generis social facts independent of individuals. 4. Homans acknowledged two limitations on his rationalist position concerning action.