In the 2000 Presidential election, Florida and other states probably violated the Voting Rights Act by all the following EXCEPT
a. Many Florida Blacks with no criminal records were told they could not vote because they were felons
b. Voters in predominately black precincts were turned away on the grounds that they had voted by absentee ballot when they had not
c. Two-thirds of the people on the purge lists for Miami-Dade county in Florida were black
d. White voters were much more likely to have their ballots rejected
ANS: d
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Karl Marx suggested that there are only two social classes. These include the:
a. bourgeois b. middle class c. working class d. urban underclass
Role refers to
(a) a part in a play. (b) a set of expected behaviors associated with a specific status. (c) the games couples play during courtship. (d) the state of being male or female.
Individuals who feel a loss of direction when social control has become ineffective experience a state of what Durkheim called
A. Functionalism B. Social constraint C. Communion D. Anomie
When Camille’s 75-year-old grandfather expressed amazement that her teenage mind could watch TV, listen to the radio, and do homework on her laptop, he was indirectly acknowledging that
a. all the physical space in his brain was taken up. b. she was not good at screening irrelevant information. c. she could process more information in short-term memory. d. his secondary memory was completely eroded.