Approximately ______ of American adults possess only the most basic levels of literacy.
A. 31%
B. 22%
C. 17%
D. 25%
Answer: C
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Functionalists, conflict theorists, and symbolic interactionists would all agree that
a. The U.S. population is becoming increasingly diverse at a rapid rate. b. Only individuals and groups at the grass-roots level, not government and political leaders or academic elites, can bring about greater racial equality. c. Political intervention is necessary to bring about great change. d. Programs such as affirmative action or others that are designed to specifically benefit minority-group members are divisive and harmful.
In the colonial times, American doctors became part of the profession by:
a. going to medical school b. reading medical books c. being apprenticed to a medical practitioner d. being self-taught
Disengaged relationships are characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:
A. high independence. B. lack of loyalty. C. high separateness. D. covert conflict.
Which of the following is true about death and dying?
a. Physicians in the United States are legally obligated to tell terminally ill patients that they are dying. b. The routine workings of U.S. society provide many experiences that involve the possibility of death, helping to socialize us into the inevitable fact of death. c. Death is not part of the process of socialization. d. U.S. society does not allow everyday reminders of death, which is why death is so shocking and upsetting to people.