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Don and Cal are high school friends from the same hometown. After high school, Don started to work full-time as an overnight cleaner at a floor cleaning business. Cal attended a public university nearby and earned a bachelor's degree in marketing.
 
  At their 10-year reunion Don and Cal discuss the courses their lives have taken since they graduated from high school. Don has been working full-time for the whole 10 years and makes about 40,000 per year from the cleaning business. Cal has been working for 5 years as manager of the marketing department at a health insurance company in the area; he makes about 70,000 per year. What concept would a sociologist use to describe the differences between Don and Cal?
  a. the college wage premium
  b. absolute poverty
  c. the technological wage deficit
  d. outsourcing

Question 2

Throughout most of human history, families had many children because
 
  a. children were a source of needed labor.
  b. birth control was not reliable.
  c. high death rates meant that many children did not reach adulthood.
  d. All of these responses are correct.



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Dominic

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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

d




kshipps

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Reply 2 on: Jul 2, 2018
Excellent


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Gracias!

 

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