How do sociologists define a minority group?
A) a group that makes up less than 50 percent of the total population.
B) a group that is smaller than the dominant group.
C) a group whose members suffer from unequal treatment.
D) a group that is overrepresented in the educational system.
C) a group whose members suffer from unequal treatment.
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In which of the following ways are children and adolescents usually affected or influenced by their neighborhoods?
A. Adolescents do not perceive their opportunity structure in their neighborhoods and thus cannot be influenced by them. B. Institutions like schools and recreation centers typically do not play a major role. C. How adolescents perceive or are shaped by the opportunity structure in their neighborhoods can be a powerful influence on whether they engage in illegal activities. D. Older teens or adults on their block are generally not influential on the lives of children.
Couples are likely to find themselves in the ________ generation when they are caring for their aging parents and also have responsibilities for adult children who may have moved back into the home.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Conflict theory is rooted in the ideas of ______.
A. Karl Marx B. Max Weber C. G. William Domhoff D. Émile Durkheim
Which of the following is most likely to be true given the information on this table?
A) The hypothesis testing probably used one-tailed tests. B) The various scales all probably had just about the same population variances. C) The t scores are all larger than the raw change scores. D) The hypothesis testing probably used a t test for dependent means.