Which term refers to a barrier-often involving institutional discrimination-that prevents women and other minorities from moving up in the workplace?
A. pink-collar ghetto
B. glass ceiling
C. McDonaldization effect
D. workplace segregation
Answer: B
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Which of the following is/are among the important qualities of the sociological perspective?
a. the absence of strict methodology b. a weak global orientation. c. a skeptical view of the conventional explanations of social life. d. all of the above
When a distribution is overly flat it is said to be ______.
positively skewed. negatively skewed. leptokurtic. platykurtic. bimodal.
Status group refers to
A. people who share a similar level of wealth and income. B. people who share the same prestige or lifestyle, independent of their class position. C. members of a class who have a subjective awareness regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change. D. a feudal class.
People sometimes disobey the DON'T WALK sign at street intersections because they see that there are no cars coming. This behavior reflects:
a. real norms. b. customs. c. ideal norms. d. folkways. e. pedestrian norms.