The primary vehicle driving the increase of the Mexican American population in the United States is____________________.
a. immigration
b. lowered child mortality
c. higher birth rate
d. increased intermarriage
Question 2Secularization theory posited that __________ would be a major threat to the existence of religion.
a. globalization
b. capitalism
c. socialism
d. Catholicism
Question 3Some postmodern theorists emphasize that the study of deviance reveals how the powerful exert control over the powerless by taking away their free will to think and act as they might choose.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 4The terms Latino and Latina are used interchangeably with the label______________.
a. Hispanic
b. minority
c. Spanish
d. Mexican
Question 5The belief that human beings can become better through their own efforts rather than through belief in God and a religious conversion is known as:
a. totalitarianism. b. fundamentalism.
c. liberation theology. d. secular humanism.
Question 6A person shoplifts an item of clothing from a department store and is apprehended and labeled as a thief. The person subsequently accepts the label and continues to shoplift items from other stores on numerous occasions. This example illustrates the tertiary deviance stage of the labeling theory.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 7Internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II are an example of __________.
a. assimilation
b. pluralism
c. forced migration
d. genocide