Explain the roles that businesses play in the U.S. democracy.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Elected officials are pressured to create policies that support business’s confidence in the viability of the economy – so they will continue to invest in the U.S.
2. Businesses are the largest PAC campaign contributors in elections.
3. The state is responsible for establishing and enforcing rules and regulations for businesses so that average citizens are protected from potentially harmful business practices.
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About what percent of families who are awarded child support from a noncustodial parent receive the full amount?
What will be an ideal response?
Gender role research cited by Shepard reports that
a. the groundwork for gender role socialization is begun by parents even before a child is born. b. the learning of gender roles begins around age three and is well established by the time the child reaches adolescence. c. gender role preconceptions do not lead to differential treatment of boys and girls. d. differential treatment of the young usually stops at the end of infancy. e. females often have an extra Y chromosome.
Durkheim's concept of organic solidarity is roughly the same as Tönnies's concept of ________
a. Gemeinschaft. b. Gesellschaft. c. blasé urbanite. d. specialization.
Cross-cultural studies have suggested which of the following about industrialized and developing nations?
A. Intergenerational mobility is increasing in most countries. B. Mobility exists only in nonindustrialized societies. C. Modernization has benefited Kenya. D. Spain has an informal economy.