The median weekly earnings of fulltime workers ages 25 and over who had not completed high school (in 2012) was _____.
a. 106
b. 253
c. 459
d. 478
Question 2Describe ethnomethodology and note its strengths.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 3Low-income economies are primarily found in countries in __________, where half of the world's population resides.
a. Eastern Europe and Africa
b. Africa and Asia
c. Asia and South America
d. South America and Africa
Question 4What measure estimates the percentage of both public and private high school students who left high school between the beginning of one school year and the beginning of the next without earning a high school diploma or an alternative credential such as a GED?
a. Status dropout rate b. Event dropout rate
c. Absolute rate d. Relative drop rate
Question 5Describe what symbolic interactionists mean by the social construction of reality.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 6About __________ countries are classified as low-income economies by the World Bank.
a. 10
b. 34
c. 72
d. 94
Question 7Regarding the status dropout rates, which of the following statistics is NOT correct?
a. Males have a higher dropout rate as compared to females.
b. Hispanic dropout rates are higher as compared to that of African Americans.
c. African American dropout rates are higher as compared to that of whites.
d. The South has the lowest dropout rates in the United States.
Question 8Compare sociologist Emile Durkheim's typology of mechanical and organic solidarity with sociologist Ferdinand Tnnies' Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft societies.
What will be an ideal response?
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