The classification systems that are popularly used to divide all human beings into specific and distinct racial categories are based on
A. long-term patterns of intermarriage within groups of people.
B. objectively identifiable genetic differences between groups of people.
C. unchanging statistical differences between people in particular gene pools.
D. social meanings given to certain biological traits.
Answer: D
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A) Black people are about three times as likely to be poor as white people. B) Most black people are poor. C) Most poor people are black. D) All of these choices are correct.
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A) 1 million B) 5 million C) 10 million D) 50 million
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A how structure contributes to overall operation of society B how people construct meaning through interaction C patterns of social inequality
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A) there is not much inequality between the richest and the poor Americans. B) everyone is responsible for making his or her own way in the world without help from others. C) all people have an opportunity to move up in the world no matter how humble their beginnings. D) if people work hard they are guaranteed to better their situations.