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The chapter-opening story of passenger deaths that accompanied the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic shows that

“Working Poor” refers to people who work either full or part time and still are unable to lift themselves out of poverty.

If someone works a full-time minimum wage job they will be above the government poverty line.

The “McDonaldization” of society thesis echoes Weber’s belief that rational systems are efficient, but also dehumanizing.

Solomon Asch’s research, in which subjects were asked to match lines, showed:

Based on scapegoat theory, you would conclude that prejudice is caused by:

The sociological perspective reveals that people’s lives are mostly a result of what they decide to do.

The Holocaust, in which the Nazis murdered millions of Jews, is an example of:

By saying that the sociological perspective shows us “the strange in the familiar,” the text argues that this point of view:

What should be felt in a normal foaling when checking position?