Imagine yourself poor, and consider the functionalist provision that inequality is inevitable and functional. Would you accept your status as unavoidable and necessary?
What will be an ideal response?
varies
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The U.S. has moved away from a society dominated by work and production to one dominated by consumption.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Suppose a corporation has 2,000 employees with an average age of 36 . If the standard deviation of age is 6 years, what is the standard error of the mean for this population?
a. .003 b. .07 c. .13 d. .80
Which of the following looks at how different aspects of society are intertwined, with the idea that society is a well-balanced system with all parts necessary to the whole?
a. Symbolic Interaction perspective b. Conflict perspective c. Functionalist perspective d. Primal Interaction perspective
The changing nature of adoption is reflected in the fact that
A. a significant portion of adopted children are foreign born. B. sixty percent of foreign-born children are from Asian countries. C. two-thirds of the children adopted have a disability. D. all of these are true.