Which of the following best describes Rosa Parks's role in the Montgomery bus boycott?
A. a deliberate action by a trained civil rights movement member
B. a spontaneous action by a woman who was simply tired of the status quo
C. a deliberate action by a woman who was "brought in" to Montgomery by the NAACP
D. a spontaneous action by a woman who was a new member of the NAACP
Answer: A
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As subordinate-group members are able to compete successfully, they sometimes encounter attitudinal or organizational bias that prevents them from reaching their full potential. Which of the following statements support this claim?
a. Qualified men often encounter obstacles when they move out of sex-typical jobs. b. Qualified workers often move laterally into a different department without being promoted to a higher level. c. Qualified workers belonging to minority groups encounter barriers that prevent their promotion. d. Qualified subordinate-group members mostly encounter redlining that acts as a barrier to prevent their professional growth.
Meredith studies how waiters are treated by diners at a country club in order to learn about the daily structure of inequality and how these patterns are enacted and replicated. Meredith is a __________
a. functionalist b. conflict theorist c. symbolic interactionist d. feminist
How do sociologists explain why the achievement gap between black and white children who are similarly matched in terms of age, birth weight, education, and occupation of their parents reappears in the third generation?
What will be an ideal response?