Nuru-Jeter and her colleagues found that the stress associated with racism throughout the life course ______.
A. leads to drug usage
B. leads to broken marriages
C. adversely affects the mortality rate of black women and infants
D. leads to increased hostility among minority groups
Answer: C
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The political system in the United States is undemocratic in many ways and the people, although they do vote for their representatives every few years, are really quite powerless
a. true b. false
In the United States, African Americans are more than twice as likely to be poor as white people __________.
A. and die an average of almost four years earlier than whites B. but have similar levels of health due to the availability of Medicare, which pays health costs for poor people C. but live as long as whites, on average D. but black women are just as likely as white women to get good prenatal care for their babies
The First and Second Demographic Transitions were generalizations based on experience in Western Europe
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Sociologists who are critical of the modernization-secularization thesis claim that
a. religion has changed, not declined in importance. b. religion is organized in society the way it always has been. c. religion is much less important than before. d. religion has remained unchanged throughout modernization.