Employees for residential roofing companies often complain about their knees after a long day of shingling, and dart throwers often complain about their elbows after a tournament. Based on this description, you would guess they have

A. osteoporosis.
B. rheumatoidarthritis.
C. osteoarthritis.
D. degenerativeskeletosis.


Answer: C

Sociology

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In the United States, the official definition of Hispanic

a. considers the complex history and intermixing of people in Latin America. b. acknowledges the diversity of people who are considered Hispanic. c. divides the U.S. population into two ethnic categories: Hispanic and non-Hispanic. d. considers Hispanics as one of six official racial categories.

Sociology

Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The narcotizing dysfunction can desensitize an audience to suffering and can influence the degree to which that audience might conclude that a solution to a crisis has already been found. 2. A producer who declines adding a gay character to a storyline because she feels it would "upset certain audience members" is performing a gatekeeping role. 3. Globalization of the dominant ideology has weakened the dominating reach of the U.S. into the rest of the world. 4. The mass media seldom collect and define facts for their audiences because most media presentations reflect the values and orientations of the audiences themselves. 5.The media audience is always a secondary group of observers who are spread over a wide geographic area and can most accurately be analyzed from the functionalist perspective.

Sociology

The earth's resources are finite; only a certain number of a given species can inhabit an environment. These are examples of a concept that is basic to understanding environmental stress, which is __________

a. growth b. interdependence c. limits d. complexity

Sociology

Because of a lack of housing wealth, most older African Americans have less income security for their old age, and an emergency can deplete their resources. Such unequal distribution of wealth perpetuates:

A. cumulative disadvantage. B. classism. C. racism. D. powerlessness.

Sociology