Describe the structure and history of America's fee-for-service health care system.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideas answer should include:
1. Fee-for-service system means that the individual must pay for medical care and the cost is not rolled into taxes.
2. During WWII, health insurance was offered as a fringe benefit.
3. By 1950s and 1960s, health insurance was firmly tied to employment.
4. By 1970s, health insurance costs began to climb, and small businesses were the first to stop providing health insurance.
5. Today only 53 percent of firms offer insurance to employees.
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Why do some people view globalization as cultural imperialism?
Please provide the best answer for the statement
Many of the less developed world's people have come to have "rising expectations." How did this process unfold? Are these expectations likely to be fulfilled? Why or why not? Choose one of the following topics to discuss in detail: (1) literacy rates; (2) energy consumption; (3) food and hunger.
What will be an ideal response?
What term did Emile Durkheim use for how individuals employed specific skills to complete specialized work within a society?
A. rationalization of society B. division of labor C. rationalization of work D. capitalism
Gidden proposed that:
A pure relationships have replaced traditional love based relationships B allows for more personal freedom in relationships C are more adaptive to modern culture and technology D all of the above.