According to McNamee and Miller in "The American Dream," from 1900 to 2001 the proportion of American eighteen to twenty-one year olds in college
a. stayed about the same.
b. increased slightly.
c. doubled.
d. went up over tenfold.
D
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What will be an ideal response?
The power society holds over its members versus the power of social actors to change society is referred to as the agency-structure dichotomy
a. true b. false
Sociologists who use a symbolic interactionist framework believe that the "drug problem" could be reduced if
a. more people had greater economic opportunities in society. b. children did not see members of their families, peer groups, and other people abusing alcohol and other drugs. c. formal mechanisms of social control were enforced to prohibit people from taking illegal drugs. d. powerful corporate interests quit encouraging the use of legal drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, and some pharmaceutical products.
In Maria's social life, she is part of a legal, immigrant family living together, but she just came out of the closet as a lesbian which caused so much stress and conflict at home and school that no one is talking to her in the same way. The status of lesbian is:
a. shaped by fashion. b. culturally not organized for the family to comprehend. c. a form of political rebellion in action. d. a master status.