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A research team is curious about the relationship between exercise habits and academic performance among American college students. The researchers randomly select seventeen colleges by pulling names out of a hat. They travel to campuses and stand in prominent public places asking for volunteers until they have ten people from each campus willing to be interviewed. What is the researchers’ target population?

Participants in Dr. Vega’s study downloaded an app to their phones that sends a signal at random moments throughout the day. When they get the signal, they completed a questionnaire as soon as possible that asked about what they were doing when the beeper sounded and how they felt in terms of the parameters of flow. Dr. Vega was using ______.

Why are the poor and members of ethnic and racial minorities more likely to suffer health problems that result from exposure to pollution?

Who does the family influence as an agent of socialization?

Which of the following is a strategy that some middle- and upper-class women have used to balance the demands of work and home?

According to relative deprivation theory, people join social movements because

__________ is the study of the social aspects of diseases.

An industry dumps waste in an area adjacent to where members of racial and ethnic minorities reside. What is this practice called?

Which of the following is true of the Buddhist inspired style of mindfulness?

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company poisoned the water in Hinkley, California. The poisoned water system had sickened many Hinkley residents with ailments such as liver damage and cancer. How would the illnesses of the Hinkley residents be classified?