___________ refers to an arrangement in which minority groups adopt the culture and lifestyle of the majority group and give up most of their distinct cultural heritage in the process.

Which of the following is a critique of structural functionalism?

You and your spouse earn a combined income of less than $19,000 per year to sustain yourselves and your two children. The U.S. government therefore considers your family to be poor and eligible for some assistance. You have been found to be living:

Sociologists explain that race is socially constructed, not biological. What evidence do we have that this is the case? (The notes and lecture provide three reasons). What are they? 

Which of the following is a reason why sociologists view gender as a social construction rather than a biological given?

Stratification is another term for:

In a weather app, a WeatherStation class receives new temperature readings. Three screens (a home widget, an alerts page, a forecast chart) must update on every new reading. Right now WeatherStation calls homeWidget.update(), alertsPage.update(), and forecastChart.update() directly. Users can open and close screens at any time, and the team plans to add more screen types.

How can an API Gateway enforce a single shared rate-limiter instance across all concurrent threads?

A file-export library has a DataSource class with a write(data) method. Users want any combination of compression, encryption, and checksumming, chosen at runtime from their settings. Which design handles this best?

How does a multi-cloud SDK provision server instances across AWS, GCP, or Azure without modifying core pipeline code?