Most mainstream textbooks view homelessness and drug addiction
a. in a broad social stratification context.
b. from a power-conflict perspective.
c. as problems rooted in society's basic framework.
d. as deviant types of behavior.
d
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Which statement is NOT true of affirmative action?
A. Affirmative action has attempted to improve minority access to educational opportunities. B. Affirmative action policies are controversial. C. Affirmative action applies primarily to African Americans. D. Affirmative action has attempted to improve minority access to occupational opportunity.
What is the difference between a panic and mass hysteria?
a. A panic is a fearful response that may be self-damaging; mass hysteria is produced by false beliefs. b. Panic is produced by false beliefs; mass hysteria is a fearful response that may be self-damaging. c. Panic is experienced individually; mass hysteria is crowd behavior. d. There is no difference between a panic and mass hysteria. e. Panics last a great deal longer than mass hysteria.
Immigrants most similar in culture and appearance to the Anglo-Saxon core have been most easily accepted into the U.S. primarily because:
a. of their time of immigration. b. Anglo-conformity has generally been expected of immigrants. c. of white privilege. d. cultural pluralism has gained prominence.
What is a critique levied at ethnomethodology? Select all, but only those apply.
a. Ethnomethodology focuses on the trivial matters of daily life rather than more important and consequential things like social problems. b. In focusing on cognition and consciousness, ethnomethodology ignores the structure and organization of daily life. c. Ethnomethodologists have yet to link their tradition to micro-level sociology. d. Ethnomethodology is overly reliant on institutional study and thereby ignores conversation analysis.