What is the term for any arbitrary action initiated by an authority based on race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than a person's behavior?

What will be an ideal response?


racial profiling

Sociology

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The closer the value of a measure of association is to one,

a. the stronger the relationship. b. the more evenly the scores are distributed. c. the weaker the relationship. d. the more certain we are that the samples are representative.

Sociology

Research into death anxiety has been characterized by Kastenbaum as

A. an express lane into the fear of death and dying. B. a unitary and monolithic set of variables. C. thanatology's own assembly line. D. data which is impractical and generally useless.

Sociology

Today, hunting and gathering societies ________

a. are quickly spreading around the world. b. represent about half the world's population. c. are few in number, but are found on every continent. d. are close to disappearing from the world.

Sociology

What is urbanization?

A. the sociological study of cities B. those persons and institutions that have a stake in an increase in the value of urban land and that constitute a power elite in most cities C. a relatively large, dense, and permanent settlement of socially heterogeneous individuals D. the concentration of people in urban areas

Sociology