Minority groups share some common characteristics as well as some common strategies for dealing with their second-class status. Discuss these characteristics and apply your theoretical knowledge to explain them
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
• Outline the characteristics of a minority group.
• Outline the four objectives of the minority group: assimilation, pluralism, secession, and militancy
• Apply various theories to explain each of the four responses.
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A ready made social structure designed to organize and stabilize the responsibility for producing and raising children is the definition of:
a. the church. b. gender roles. c. marriage. d. rites of passage.
Distinguish between de jure subjugation and de facto subjugation
What will be an ideal response?
In experiments, there are independent and dependent variables. The first is called an independent variable because:
a. it never changes b. it is not manipulated in the experiment c. it is not used in statistical analyses d. it is the characteristic that the individual being studied assigned to themselves
During the Industrial Revolution, which began in the __________ century, the application of steam power and later oil and electricity as energy sources for industry, mining, manufacturing, and transportation brought fundamental changes to the economy, the nature of work, family organization, and a transition from rural to urban life.
A. seventeenth B. eighteenth C. nineteenth D. twentieth