Medicare is a nationwide health care program for persons age 65 and older who are covered by Social ...

Medicare is a nationwide health care program for persons age 65 and older who are covered by Social Security or:
 
  a. who are widowed.
 b. under 65 but unemployed.
 c. women and children that fall under the poverty line.
 d. who are eligible to buy into the program by paying a monthly premium.

Question 2

Distinguish between common sense and sociological research.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

Sociologist Erving Goffman's term __________ refers to the ways in which an individual shows awareness that another is present without making this person the object of particular attention.
 
  a. civil inattention
 b. selective attention
 c. passive rudeness
 d. reserved rejection

Question 4

One of the benefits of the Affordable Care Law is that the elderly have better access to
 
  a. cancer treatment. b. preventative services.
 c. designer prescription drugs. d. a personal physician.

Question 5

Approximately how many people in the 2010 U.S. census self-identified as more than one race?
 
  a. 4 million b. 14 million
 c. 40 million d. 104 million

Question 6

Which of these is not true about postindustrial society?
 
  a. There has been an information explosion.
 b. Most people work in service or information-related occupations.
 c. Production of goods within the society is mechanized.
 d. Knowledge becomes a commodity.