Labor unrest by troubled miners, farmers, and laborers were consistently met by a government that inevitably took the side of the ________ against the ________.
a. strong / weak
b. weak / strong
c. owner / worker
d. worker / owner
Question 2Parenti notes that the dominance of the wealthy is ________ when indoctrination to conservative values achieves a consensus among the citizenry concerning the status quo.
a. threatened
b. legitimized
c. guaranteed
d. weakened
Question 3Piven and Cloward, in a historical assessment of government welfare programs, have determined that the government institutes massive aid to the poor only when ________.
a. the business initiates this measure
b. the poverty reaches disastrous proportions
c. the poor constitute a threat to the system
d. the percentage of more than 10 of the population lives in poverty
Question 4The shift from local businesses to large-scale manufacturing during the last half of the nineteenth century saw a concomitant increase in ________ in the economy.
a. popular participation
b. governmental activity
c. party politics
d. minority participation
Question 5Institutions are generally
a. anchored in history.
b. determined by what a majority of people desire.
c. short-lived patterns that are easily changed.
d. all of the above.
Question 6The People's Temple
a. refused African-American participation.
b. encouraged African-American participation.
c. was in fact a segregated community.
Question 7Parenti believes that through ________ the institutions of society are patterned to produce prearranged results, regardless of the personalities of decision-makers.
a. political coalitions
b. systemic imperatives
c. cultural biases
d. structural biases
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