Along with many companies in the manufacturing sector, April's employer recently outsourced all of its manufacturing jobs to Indonesia. Because of this, April lost her manufacturing sector job. Now April does not have the money to pay her mortgage and may lose her house. C. Wright Mills would say that April's situation is

a) a personal trouble
b) a social or public issue of social structure
c) an example of the paradox of dependency
d) a sign of the times
e) a manifest latency


b) a social or public issue of social structure

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a. the poor. b. luck. c. the wealthy. d. our upbringing.

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Heteronormative assumptions about gender:

a. underpin the hegemonic view of family b. form a solid foundation for family life c. are challenged most often by boys born after 1980 d. toss gender roles on their head

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Tony, unable to sleep, takes a tranquilizer along with barbiturates. The combined action of the drugs prove to be fatal and kill him. This condition resulting from the combination of two depressants taken at a time is known as _________

a. potentiation b. chipping c. tolerance d. dependence

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