Material culture includes
a. physical objects people have invented, such as a diamond ring.
b. conceptions of what is right and good, such as "true friendship".
c. rules for behavior, such as "stop for pedestrians in crosswalk".
d. the desire for material possessions.
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The health care program inaugurated in the 1960s to help the poor population in the United States is called _________________________
a. Old-Age Insurance b. Medicaid c. Medicare d. Blue Cross / Blue Shield e. Title IX
According to recent statistics, most of the nation's poor are concentrated in
a. small metropolitan areas. b. small towns and rural areas. c. large central cities. d. large suburban cities.
Which of the following best fits the criteria for good empirical research into the prevalence of domestic violence in U.S. households?
A. Becky distributes a questionnaire about domestic violence to her sociology class. B. Joel counts the number of domestic violence shelters in major metropolitan areas. C. Rodney conducts analysis on data he obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. D. Brizy interviews men and women who have been ordered by the court to participate in violence prevention counseling.
The claim made by Marshall McLuhan is that _____.
a. media is simply a process that has nothing to do with the information they transmit" b. media is always in the middle" c. the medium is the message" because inevitably it shapes what it transmits d. there can be no objective truth"