Mayor Kua has formed a committee to look at gender pay inequities in his city and look at communities with less poverty. He has asked the committee to use the empirical method to determine the benefits by requiring equal pay for equal work
Mayor Kua is using the a) sociological imagination.
b) conflict perspective.
c) symbolic perspective.
d) recovery approach.
a
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Roger works with Thanh Li, a recent immigrant from Vietnam. Roger considers Thanh Li a friend, but when co-workers exclude Thanh Li from the company softball team because they are prejudiced, Roger says nothing and goes ahead and plays on the team. Merton's classification of Roger is a(n):
a. unprejudiced discriminator. b. unprejudiced nondiscriminator. c. prejudiced nondiscriminator d. prejudiced nondiscriminator. e. prejudiced discriminator. f. unconscious discriminator.
A legislator wants to change laws so that individuals arrested for possession of small amounts of illegal drugs will be sent to drug courts that will ensure that they participate in substance abuse treatment. Which of the following is the legislator advocating?
A. Mass incarceration B. Medicalization of deviance C. That deviance is functional for society D. The idea that street criminals are an exploited class
SAGE News Clips: Guatemalan Syphilis ExperimentsDescription: While looking for research on the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis, a Wellesley college professor uncovered medical records that detailed unethical experiments done on Guatemalans by both U.S. and Guatemalan doctors. Between 1946 and 1948, more than 1500 Guatemalans were infected with syphilis to test the effectiveness of penicillin. Watch this video to learn more about the victims of the Guatemalan experiment--many of whom are suing the U.S. government.Click on the above link to access the Interactive eBook. Once you've signed in, scroll to page 56, and watch the video. When you've finished watching the video, come back to the test, and answer the following questions:Which of the following is one of the primary violations of both the
Tuskegee and Guatemalan "experiments?" A. The researchers told the subjects they could end the experiment at any time. B. The researchers did not protect subjects from personal or psychological harm. C. The researchers made sure to receive consent from the participants. D. The researchers refrained from putting undue stress on the participants.
Challenges faced by lower-class families include
What will be an ideal response?