In 1965, Mollie Orshansky was largely responsible for the official fixed-income definition
of the poverty line. The central factor in her formula is __________.
a. income compared to median annual family income
b. the number of children in the family compared to the national average
c. the cost of housing adjusted for rises in the consumer price index
d. an index of interest rates accessible to the poor, factored into the cost of living index
e. food consumption
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The shooting of students and faculty at Virginia Tech University in the spring of 2007 fits the pattern of Durkheim's _____
a. anomic suicide b. altruistic suicide c. egoistic suicide d. fatalistic suicide
According to Erving Goffman, whenever people interact they
a. perform and they judge the performances of others, and this goes according to rules that underlie all interaction. b. are active and free, doing what they want as long as they do not hurt others, and constantly encourage others to do what they want. c. seek to control others so that the others can be exploited for selfish needs. d. become a system of equality and mutual respect.
In his study of the effects of discrimination on individual personalities, Children of Crisis, Robert Coles used an unusual research method, which was __________.
A. videotaping interaction among white and black children in the classroom B. interviews with schoolchildren C. stress tests of white and black children placed by the researcher in antagonistic relationships D. analysis of how black schoolchildren depicted their world and themselves through drawings
Laws forbidding interracial marriage, which continued to exist at the state level in the U.S. until 1967, are called:
What will be an ideal response?