What is the Wal-Mart effect?
What will be an ideal response?
Wal-Mart is a monopoly so large that if manufacturers do not sell their products there, they run the risk of going out of business. Wal-Mart influences the wages and prices of not only its suppliers, but also its competitors.
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A(n) ________ is defined as an authority pattern in which spouses are regarded as equals.
A. Neolocal family B. Egalitarian family C. Bilateral family D. Homogamous family
Which of these is not considered a function of primary groups?
a. providing emotional support b. socialization of infants and children c. adult socialization d. promoting conformity and social control e. to accomplish an important goal or task
In their research on the American prison system, Bruce Western and Jeffrey Reiman note that the prison system functions as though it were designed to
A. train and socialize prisoners into a career of secondary deviance. B. help prisoners repay their debt to society. C. give prisoners marketable skills that will keep them from returning to prison. D. make prisoners more respectable.
The tendency, sometimes enforced by norms or rules, to marry only others within the same social group is known as:
a. endogamy b. exogamy c. homogamy d. monogamy