In 2009, about 10 million violent and property crimes were committed in the United States. Of these, only about __________ percent were cleared by arrests.
a. 5
b. 11
c. 20
d. 31
e. 41
Question 2
In his cultural-situational approach to explaining persistent poverty, Herbert Gans argues
that the solution to poverty lies in __________.
a. programs that help the poor to overcome the debilitating influences of their culture of poverty
b. adjustments in the economic system so that the introduction of technology doesn't displace workers
c. altering the situational factors that cause poverty
d. discovering the factors that constrain poor people from taking new opportunities that conflict with their present cultural values
e. working with the agents of socialization so that only one dominant set of values is internalized by all groups and classes in the population
Rate of Residential Change, Past Year, in the United States
Generally, the total tax burden in the United States is much lower than that of other industrialize
This photograph of a Union soldier just freed from Andersonville prison, stunned and enraged norther
The “Big Four” world leaders meet at the Hotel Crillon in Paris, 1919. From left to right (front row
Agricultural Land as a Fraction of Total Wealth in the United Kingdom
Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States, Brief Edition