Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The period from the Revolutionary War to World War I saw the most violent labor confrontations in American history.

2. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. workers adopted Marx’s conception of a capitalist society.

3. In 1943, while an employee of the U.S. Census Bureau, Alba Edwards developed a set of broad occupational groups which provided a “socioeconomic” hierarchy of earnings, education, and prestige, ascending together.

4. Of the three white-collar groupings, it is the managerial occupation that has grown the most since 1980 in the United States.


1. FALSE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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a. empty nest b. launching c. generational squeeze d. morphogenesis

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a. Erving Goffman b. Robert Merton c. Emile Durkheim d. Harold Garfinkel

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