Elaine Bell Kaplan's research on black teenage motherhood concluded that
a. the black community condones teen pregnancy.
b. the black teens felt embarrassed and stigmatized by being pregnant.
c. black women don't value success as much as white women do.
d. the black teens always developed complete sexual identities.
Question 2What is the origin of the racial component to global inequality?
a. The history of Western colonialism
b. The racist nature of global capitalism
c. The cultural differences between different populations
d. The varied definitions of race around the world
Question 3Sociologists believe that persistent problems in the U.S. are
a. largely the result of individual behavior.
b. caused by people with psychological problems.
c. embedded in society.
d. the consequence of free will.
Question 4A comparison of the world's richest and poorest countries reveals that the poorest countries tend to be/have all of the following, except:
a. be largely rural.
b. be heavily dependent on subsistence agriculture.
c. have large populations and high fertility rates.
d. have a socialist government.
Question 5Sociology differs from media programs that feature human problems in that
a. the media are interested in individualssociologists are not.
b. sociologists use research techniques and theories that the media may not use to explain social issues.
c. sociologists do not study the types of problems that appear on television programs.
d. the media focuses on problem behavior, sociology does not.
Question 6Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the change in the governments of Eastern Europe, what changes have most of the second-world countries undergone?
a. They now have democratically elected governments.
b. They have moved toward a market economic system.
c. They have returned to a more agricultural type of society.
d. They have grown substantially in size.
Question 7To study human behavior, sociologists use _____.
a. debunked myths
b. empirical analysis
c. media
d. common sense
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