Which of the following exemplifies the Latino paradox?
a. Maria, a Mexican American, is in the working class and does not have her high school diploma, but has a longer life expectancy than Whitney, a White, middle-class and college-educated woman.
b. Belen, a Puerto Rican, lacks a college degree, but finds work in a bank and climbs into the middle class faster than Corey, a White woman who does have a college degree.
c. Hugo, an immigrant from Venezuela, is given automatic entrance into a state college, while Paul, a White American, is waitlisted.
d.
Alejandro, a second-generation Mexican American, graduates from high school and enters the local university to study business, while Jack, a White male, drops out of high school and joins a gang.
a
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a. measures of performance. c. oligarchy. b. trained incapacity. d. expert power.
If you were to collect social behaviour as a type of unobtrusive data, you would observe:
a. Social institutions b. People eating c. People interacting, either in person or online d. Documents
The world's leading arms exporting nation is a. China
b. North Korea. c. Russia. d. the United States.
What has happened to the pregnancy rate since 1990?
a. stayed flat b. risen sharply c. risen slowly d. dropped steadily