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CONGRATS! You’ve finished the second midterm assessment. Way to go, friend. You’ve earned yourself a break – and also a snack like this happy quokka! Link to a National Geographic video about the Australian quokka (1 min. 48 sec.) More fun facts about the quokka can be found here.  

49. A sociologist and biologist work together to investigate possible epigenetic marks for cancer. In the case of Lily, a cancer patient, they are looking at both her genes and  

20. Students at the high school decided to pool their money to buy winter clothes for the city’s homeless population. They didn’t benefit from this action individually, but their city was better off for it. Each student was engaging in  

7. Alma works in a factory that produces computer screens. Her task is to press a button that ensures that one small piece of plastic is cut in the appropriate shape and size. Alma does not know anything about the rest of the production process. She is paid minimum wage and has never been able to afford a computer of her own. She also does not feel like her work allows her any creativity. Alma’s position in a capitalist system is best described by the theories of  

19. Karim is working with local nonprofits to study potential interventions to alleviate poverty in an immigrant enclave neighborhood in Boston. In his report, he employs Mario Luis Small’s idea of “culture as frames” instead of Oscar Lewis’s “culture of poverty” because the “culture of poverty” thesis  

29. Which of the following reflects the growing trend of “buy and return” activity, or “religious shopping,” in reference to faith?    

18. How does social context affect crime according to the broken windows theory?    

9. Modern-day schools tend to reward which of the following parenting techniques?  

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?