"Environmental racism" refers to __________
A) gentrification such that the poor cannot afford to buy homes in urban areas
B) moving companies into the suburbs because of lax environmental standards
C) the placement of noxious and toxin-producing industries and landfills near minority communities
D) mistreating minority owned companies that pollute the environment
Answer: C
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A) Much of human behavior can be inferred from the study of animals. B) Social behavior can be best understood through an analysis of the society in which people operate. C) At birth, the human infant is asocial. D) Socialized human beings are actors as well as reactors and can take the role of other.
Participant observation and content analysis share the disadvantage that:
a. they are unsystematic. b. the research subjects are not selected randomly. c. they rely on interpretations of the sociologist. d. None of these are disadvantages held in common.
Race was a salient factor in influencing the desirability of potential adoptive children because ______.
a. the parents were raised in a time when racism was much more overt and accepted b. media and government policies advocated against raising children of different races c. race was conflated with oppositional cultural practices that socialization could not erase d. babies born in the United States were difficult to adopt
Jorge works a minimum-wage job, but he has many expensive assets in his name. Jorge is an example of someone who has ______.
a. high wealth b. low wealth c. high income d. high debt