Alison and Daniel are young, married, well-to-do ,white professionals. They have recently decided to buy and renovate a run-down brownstone in a Brooklyn, N.Y. neighborhood that was once considered poor. Alison and Daniel are engaging in a process of ______.
A. gentrification
B. relocation
C. restructuring
D. real estate investment
Answer: A
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A) environmental explanations B) biological explanations C) religious explanations D) psychological explanations
Social class
a. is a universal social phenomenon occurring in all human societies. b. is a social relationship. c. is unrelated to economic factors. d. provides clear cut boundaries that individuals in the U.S. are unable to cross.
The placing of dumps near minority communities reflects _______________
a. an accident of history b. purposeful attempts to put waste next to powerless communities c. poor communities desire to live near waste dumps d. none of the above
American culture contains norms that encourage a preference for marriage partners who are similar to ourselves with respect to age, social status, and prior marital status. These preferences are termed ____
a. heterogamy b. homogamy c. patriarchy d. exogamy e. matrilocality