The fact that older African American women experience a poverty rate five times that of older white men is an example of

a. realistic accumulation.
b. cumulative disadvantage.
c. cumulative racism.
d. adjunct ageism.


Answer: b

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a. undermine trust. b. violate personal space. c. do assignments in general. d. draw attention to themselves.

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Dr. Pope is researching the process of how children perceive themselves. He is specifically looking at how the perception of others affects people's perception of themselves. This concept is closest to

a) looking-glass self. b) symbolic interaction. c) role taking. d) operational interaction.

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Sociologists refer to the cultural presupposition that sexual relationships should exist between a man and a woman and that alternate sexualities are deviant, abnormal, or wrong, as

A. homonormativity. B. homophobia. C. heteronormativity. D. heterosexuality.

Sociology

The passage of the __________ marked the beginning of a shift to thinking about drug abusers as criminals

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Sociology