What is the term for economic policies that use government spending to stimulate the economy when there is too little demand for goods and services (often when people have too little money)?

a. neoliberalism
b. Keynesian economics
c. laissez faire
d. deficit spending


b. Keynesian economics

Sociology

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Churches in many older New England towns stand in the __________ of the community

Fill in the blank with correct word

Sociology

Sociologists distinguish between the nature of media coverage of a social problem and the way that problem is perceived by the public and political leaders

They have also devoted considerable study to the question of how social problems develop from underlying conditions into publicly defined problems that engender social policies and sustained social movements. This subject is often referred to as the "__________" of social problems. a. raison d'ĂȘtre b. natural history c. prime predictor d. essence e. prime mover

Sociology

Which American sociologist described the years of American colonial slavery when he said that "gradually the entire white South became an armed camp to keep Negroes in slavery and to kill the black rebel"?

A) Benjamin Quarles B) W. E. B. Du Bois C) Booker T. Washington D) George Washington Carver

Sociology

In the case of gamma, a negative relationship means that

a. if case A ranks below case B on one variable, case A will rank below case B on the other variable b. if case A ranks above case B on one variable, it will rank below case B on the other variable c. if case A ranks above case B on one variable, it will rank above case B on the other variable d. the ranking of cases will be unrelated

Sociology