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Where was the legal system known as apartheid instituted?

A) North Korea
B) South Africa
C) the United States
D) Germany

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How do economic classes teach their members different ways of living?

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French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu argue...

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What was the leading reason for immigration to the United States from the 1880s to the 1920s?

The feminist movement of the 1970s and 1980s has effectively eliminated the glass ceiling that bars women from high-level managerial positions in business.

What,in terms of the power of the state,do the regimes of Hitler and Stalin illustrate?

How do the institutions of government impact social structure?

How is an idea institutionalized?

What is path dependency? How can path dependency impact the development of society?

When ideas are passed down from one generation to another,they begin to solidify,become accepted,and then become __________.

Social hierarchies are based only on class,race,ethnicity,religion,education,region,and gender.

Populations most commonly change over time as a result of immigration.

What are institutions?

Bourdieu argued that socialization works most powerfully through the development of a set of specific habits.What does he mean by this? Be sure to define habitus in your answer.

In sociological terms,power and privilege are the same thing.

Explain how waves of migration have impacted demographic patterns in the United States since the mid-1800s.

Which of the following barriers to equal opportunity is legal in the United States?

What happened in our past does not impact what happens today or in our future.

Contrary to popular belief,it was necessary for people born in the 1940s to have a college degree in order to find a decent job by the time they reached their early 20s.

What word do sociologists use to describe movement from one role to another over the course of a life?

As a young boy in the 1970s,Robert remembered that there was a push for public schools to teach children the metric system.The movement to adopt metric measurement was eventually abandoned in the United States.How did Robert explain this outcome?