Which of the following characteristics of minority groups is shared by older adults?
a. They are victims of reverse discrimination in employment.
b. They have little sense of group solidarity.
c. Their leisure-time activities are similar to the rest of the society.
d. Their membership in the group is involuntary.
d
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Which of the following statements is true of occupations assumed by the Irish Americans by 1910?
a. The Irish Americans stayed away from positions in politics and labor unions. b. The priesthood was the professional occupation of choice for second-generation men. c. Irish women were unable to compete with their German and English immigrant counterparts to become schoolteachers. d. The Irish Americans were only able to seek employment as laborers.
_________________ are "the changeable characteristics of a given population."
a. Crude birth rates b. Total fertility rates c. Life span d. Population variables
Macrosocial change produces:
a. change in communities, economic organizations, and governing bodies b. new patterns of individual and small-group interaction c. technological innovations d. the major forces that shape change throughout a society
Which of the following statement describes Jane Addams’ social ethics?
a. Practices and rules that direct people to correctly and justly interact with one another in order to build and sustain strong communities. b. An awareness there is a split between life as described in texts and life as actually lived by people. c. Rendering accounts of social reality from actors as opposed to abstraction. d. A bringing of all people and their perspectives into all aspects of society.