Geoff claims to his friends that a desire to achieve and personal effort are the key to people's social standing. These claims come closest to expressing which political viewpoint?

A. radical left
B. liberal
C. conservative
D. religious


Answer: C

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1. The lifeworld is the taken-for-granted backdrop within which all situations are measured and given meaning. 2. Stocks of knowledge, recipes, and typifications are Schutz’s attempts to clarify Durkheimian notions of social action. 3. Each human has his/her own biographically articulated stock of knowledge. 4. Social life is only possible via shared interpretative schemes and language. 5. Schutz’s conceptions can be classified as rational and collective.

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Which of the following was repealed by the Magnuson Act?

a. the Chinese Exclusion Act b. the Indian Removal Act c. the Gentleman's Agreement d. Plessy v. Ferguson

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Sheila is playing softball with a group of her friends. Recently, she has been thinking about how her team members need to work as a team when a line drive is hit to center field. In considering the demands and expectations of her team as a whole, Sheila is developing an awareness of what sociologist George Herbert Mead termed as the concept of: a. significant others. b. the generalized other

c. the looking-glass self. d. the authoritarian personality.

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Jewish Americans make up about __________ of the U.S. population

a. 2 percent b. 12 percent c. 25 percent d. 32 percent

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