A nation is a group of people sharing common elements of culture such as language.
a. True
b. False
a. True (A group of people sharing common elements of culture, such as language and religion. National identity is built on a common sense of history, geography, and purpose such that individuals feel compelled to defend the nation and to further the objectives of the state.)
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A) individual psychotherapy B) drug therapy C) electroconvulsive therapy D) group therapy
A "good" measure of dispersion should
a. use all scores in a distribution b. describe the average or typical deviation of the scores c. be relatively easy to calculate and interpret d. all of the above
Which of the following statements best describes American families in the colonial era?
a. Compared with contemporary standards, the average duration of marriages was much longer. b. More than half of all children saw the death of at least one parent by the time they were twenty-one years old. c. The way in which authority was exercised would be considered exceedingly permissive by today's standards. d. The colonial family was peaceful and harmonious, unlike most contemporary families.
SAGE News Clips: The Death PenaltyThis 2011 news clip, released just prior to the execution of Troy Davis, highlights the controversy surrounding Davis' conviction and death sentence for the murder of off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia in 1989. Click on the above link to access the Interactive eBook. Once you've signed in, scroll to page 270, and watch the video. When you've finished watching the video, come back to the test, and answer the following questions:Troy Davis, a black man, was convicted and sentenced for murdering Mark McPhail, a white male police officer. Which of the following statements is true regarding homicide, gender, and race?
A. Half of homicides involve male victims and male offenders. B. Women are twice as likely to murder men as men are to murder women. C. Most crime is intraracial, meaning that the victim and the offender are from the same racial background. D. Whites are overrepresented in arrest data for many crimes, both as offenders and victims.