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8. In her interview with Dalton Conley, Devah Pager discusses her field work in Milwaukee and New York, in which she sent out job applicants, both Black and White, with half of them pretending to have prison records. Pager found that having a criminal record negatively affected an applicant’s ability to be offered a job. In addition, she found that Black applicants were far less likely to be called back for an interview than white applicants. This racial disparity in hiring indicates unconscious stereotypes in the minds of the hirers, in addition to the challenge of a criminal record’s     

22. According to former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, which of the following is one of the most important factors in defeating infectious diseases?    

30. One of the consequences of mass incarceration in the United States has been     

32. Should the government be able to access our genetic information? Could scientists sell our genetic information? These kinds of questions are raised by the concern for _____ _  __ _ _ that has arisen from the Human Genome Project.

16. In her interview with Dalton Conley, Susan Crawford shared findings of her research with lower-class religious women. She was surprised to hear that while the women said religion was very important, they rarely attended services at churches, mosques, or temples. Why was this the case?  

49. Which development gave birth to modern societies, where a person’s identity is based on overlapping group affiliations rather than the concentric ones of premodern societies?  

36. An example of horizontal social mobility is a(n)  

2.  A supernatural compensator is

51. As discussed in the textbook, the game Monopoly exemplifies equality of  

29. Race, class, gender, and other important axes of identity– when considered together – provide a powerful analytical framework for understanding patterns of inequality. This framework is called: