Leonard Beeghley concludes that election laws and practices in the United States tend to benefit the ___________ more than any other social group.
a. poor
b. working class
c. more affluent classes
d. majority of African Americans
e. majority of Hispanic Americans
Question 2Given the contrasting behavior Stanford University staff accorded a young lady asking questions, Rosenhan concludes that pseudopatients received the treatment they did when asking staff members questions because the ____________________.
a. young lady carried a stigmatizing label
b. pseudopatients had a stigmatizing label
c. young lady was going to be given a stigmatizing label
d. none of the above
Question 3European nations have less income inequality than in the United States because they tend to have much _____________________________
____________.
a. higher unemployment benefits
b. stronger worker rights
c. more unionization
d. higher taxes
e. all of the above
Question 4Steven Levitt argues that one reason why crime rates fell in the 1990s was the legalization of abortion in 1973 .
a. true
b. false
Question 5The functionalist perspective on stratification begins with the fundamental and true assumption that ________.
a. life is unfair
b. life is hard
c. as individuals, and as groups of individuals, we have differing interests
d. society's most important positions cannot be filled by just anyone
e. individuals from different class backgrounds contribute equally to the suprastructure of society
Question 6A United Nations study revealed that the growing economic inequality in the
U.S. that began in the 1980s has _____________________________
___.
a. reversed itself
b. reversed itself, but that the same has not happened in other developed nations
c. not stopped, and the same phenomenon has happened in other developed nations
d. reversed itself, and essentially the same thing has happened in other developed nations
Question 7In general, those with the greatest number of resources will tend to win out when conflicts arise.
a. true
b. false
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