Which of the following would constitute a "natural" experiment?
a. Conducting a survey of city park workers regarding their job satisfaction
b. Doing a comparative analysis of families that choose to stay and those who choose to move out of a racially changing neighborhood to find out the underlying causes for the difference in their choices
c. Evaluating a drug courts program on drug user relapses
d. Presenting half of a classroom with a documentary on discrimination, then measuring student opinions on race
e. Soliciting teenagers at a mall to view a Pickup commercial and discuss their impressions
b
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A) Values B) Symbols C) Mores D) Norms
In American society, we often formalize norms into
A. folkways. B. mores. C. laws. D. values.
Institutional racism refers to overt acts of racism by individuals that harm other individuals or their personal property
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
A store manager said, "How much money people spend isn't related to age. All that matters is how long they shop." If she said that after seeing the results of one of these studies, which scenario was she probably looking at?
A) Scenario A B) Scenario B C) Scenario C D) None of the above