According to Robert Merton, most people react to inconsistencies between culturally defined goals and the means to achieve them by

a. innovation

b. retreatism.
c. rebellion.
d. conformity.


d

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The specialization of the right and left hemispheres of the brain for different tasks is brain

A) organization. B) dualism. C) lateralization. D) meiosis.

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Population trends and changes are related to many different macro-level issues. List four of these issues:

What will be an ideal response?

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Which student-centered explanation for educational inequalities do you find most compelling, and why? How do such explanations relate to your own educational experiences and observations?

What will be an ideal response?

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In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka the Supreme Court held that:

a. an employer could not set educational requirements for a job that were not relevant to that job b. requiring people to pay a poll tax in order to vote was unconstitutional c. separate but equal was inherently unequal d. the incarceration of an entire ethnic group without a hearing or formal charges was unconstitutional

Sociology