Which of the following is not an explanation of the differences in SAT scores between students from different socioeconomic classes and races?
a. Poor parents, most without health insurance, are unable to afford prenatal care, which increases the risk of babies being born at low birth weight, a condition that may lead to learning disabilities.
b. Poor children are less likely than more affluent children to receive adequate nutrition, decent medical care, and safe and secure environment, which increases the probability of their being less alert, less curious, and less able to interact effectively.
c. Poor families are less likely to enroll their children in private early development programs that are available and accessible to them.
d. Poor children are more likely to drop out of schools prematurely and go to work because school supplies, meals, transportation, and various school programs are costly.
c
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a. power elite b. minimalist c. dialectical d. functionalist
One key aspect of riding the Glass Escalator involves:
a. minority men advancing at much higher rates than white men b. higher salaries for women in female-dominated occupations c. the warm, collegial welcome men workers often receive from their female colleagues d. men deliberately harming women in their climb up the escalator
Ervin Goffman used the concept of _____ to describe how individuals present themselves in favorable ways.
a. impression management b. dramaturgy c. frame analysis d. role distancing
One requirement for buying a McDonald's franchise is that an applicant must have $750, 000 of unborrowed cash on hand. This requirement represents which one of the following features of a bureaucracy?
a. a clear-cut division of labor b. organizational personnel treat clients as cases c. authority belongs to the position, not the person d. positions are filled on the basis of objective criteria