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.
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