According to _____, society sorts people into occupations, with the more qualified people having the more prestigious occupations.
a. functionalists
b. symbolic interactionists
c. conflict theorists
d. feminists
Question 2
Thomas Pettigrew's summary of research on attribution theory found that
a. individuals are accurate in their perception of the motives of other people's acts, regardless of their in-group or out-group membership.
b. attribution error is much less common than people think.
c. individuals commonly distort the motives and acts of people whom they see as out-group members.
d. when provided with information about out-groups that disproves negative perceptions of them, people quickly alter their perceptions.
Gurung people of Nepal
Monstrous people from distant lands depicted in a fifteenth-century European woodcut.
L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and a fan of William Jennings Bryan, perh
Unhappy people
Many people consider the British statesman Winston Churchill (1874–1965) to be an exemplar of the ...
The energy set-point view that is the basis of many people’s thinking about hunger and eating.