The Brown versus Board of Education case in 1954 abolished

a. Prejudice
b. The "separate but equal" doctrine
c. Restrictive housing covenants
d. Overt discrimination in privately owned businesses


ANS: b

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a. status b. social c. class d. racial

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_________, refers to the imbalance between family and work roles

A. The institutional chasm B. Work-family conflict C. The gender gap D. Bureaucratic ritualism

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a. the number and types of statuses available. b. the consequences of occupying a particular status. c. what combination of statuses is possible. d. the distribution of people across different statuses.

Sociology

_____ is an example of an unexpected family stressor

A) Delivering a pre-term healthy baby B) The need to care for aging parents C) Contracting a sexually transmitted infection D) The death of one's parents

Sociology