________ requires institutions that have engaged in discriminatory practices to increase opportunities for women and members of minority groups. The policy has the goal of correcting past patterns of discrimination
a. Affirmative action
b. The Civil Rights Act of 1996
c. The Equal Rights Amendment
d. The Freedom Pact
a
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The official government rates of unemployment exaggerate the extent of this problem
a. true b. false
What does it mean to live in a society where people are told that they can be anything they want if they work hard enough? The questions relates to the concept of
a. labeling theory. b. social construction of reality. c. structural strain. d. obedience to authority.
Hurricane Katrina left thousands of racial minorities stranded in central city New Orleans without an adequate evacuation plan or emergency response. This social disaster highlights __________
A) the problematic dilemma of racial formation B) multiculturalism in central cities C) the social isolation of minorities in U.S. inner cities D) overt racism by those in the suburbs
George Murdock found that, in the case of many tasks, what one society considers "masculine" another may consider "feminine."
Indicate whether the statement is true or false