What are Brunvand's three principles emerging from urban legends?

What will be an ideal response?


The stories serve as warnings, the stories are related to social change and each story instills fear.

Sociology

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Welfare states have a(n) ________ life expectancy when compared to the United States

A) shorter B) longer C) identical D) nonexistent

Sociology

Kennedy (2001) pointed out that racial profiling generates anger, humiliation, distrust, and resentment among Blacks

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

Sociology

In the context of the U.S. education system, which of the following statements is true of elementary education?

A. The SAT is becoming an increasingly controversial issue in elementary schools. B. Incompletion of homework does not affect a student's test score. C. Test scores are valid and reliable measures of teacher effectiveness. D. A teacher's quality of undergraduate education affects test scores. E. Test scores are not affected by school funding.

Sociology

Based on the research by Barbara Ehrenreich, who tried to live by working at low-wage jobs, we would expect most people in such jobs to be able to move ahead to better paying work

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Sociology