The functionalist argument that many health-care services that are restricted to physicians could be performed by trained technicians refers to the issue of __________.
A. norms of treatment
B. professional dominance
C. lack of price competition
D. misallocated supply
Answer: B
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a. true b. false
Many states use welfare hotels to provide emergency shelter for homeless families. Which of the following applies?
a. Welfare hotels are nicer than public housing so homeless families are reluctant to leave. b. The state pays more to provide a single room without food storage or cooking facilities in a welfare hotel than they would pay to provide a permanent apartment to the same family. c. Families in welfare hotels are split up. Parents live in one room while children sleep in a dormitory room with children from other families who are all supervised by a child care worker. d. Welfare hotels only provide rooms to homeless families at 8 PM if they have not filled the rooms for that evening so families do not know if they have shelter until late.
The fact that women and minorities, as well as members of lower social classes, are not treated equally within bureaucracies is focus of _____
a. functionalism b. conflict theory c. symbolic interaction theory d. social exchange theory
In a self-fulfilling stereotype
a. the behaviors of the person match our expectations from the get-go. b. the underlying truth of stereotypes is confirmed. c. the behaviors of the person change to match our expectations. d. many factors can play a role, but attractiveness is not one of them.