How was the author treated differently based on her skin color?
What will be an ideal response?
Just as white customers are treated with more respect, so were white service workers,especially by white customers. At the Toy Warehouse, shoppers frequently assumed that she was in charge. At both stores, customers assumed that she was an expert on childhood.
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The theoretical perspective that focuses on how and why those with power and influence react to drug abuse is
a. Functionalist. c. Interactionist. b. Conflict. d. Postmodernist.
The fact that an unemployed coal miner in Appalachia has a higher standard of living than a doctor in Congo illustrates the idea that
A. poverty is relative. B. Americans are ethnocentric. C. poverty is absolute. D. being a doctor is not a high-prestige occupation in all countries.
Describe how a capitalist ideology and utopia conceal our actual objective reality that is fraught with inequalities and injustices.
What will be an ideal response?
Race is associated with ______, whereas ethnicity is associated with ______.
A. biology; culture B. culture; biology C. the in-group; the out-group D. the minority; the majority