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kaid0807

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Karen works for an Internet marketing company with annual billings of over 100 million. She was recently promoted to client services manager and began looking for a mentor.
 
  She noticed that over 90 percent of the executives at the director level or above are male and that only one woman has a seat on the firm's board. What does this scenario suggest may be at play in Karen's place of employment?
  a. intergenerational social mobility
  b. the glass ceiling
  c. a social hierarchy
  d. path dependency

Question 2

Sociologists describe race as a social construct. What does this statement mean?
 
  a. Race is a natural phenomenon based on unchangeable traits found in individuals.
  b. Race is a system that is invented, created by human beings.
  c. Race is believed to be a part of a person's essence, or their very being.
  d. Race is based on an objective measure of physical resemblances.



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

b



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