Jacinta’s daughter has been preparing for a spelling bee by studying several hours a day for it. Jacinta knows that by encouraging this behavior, she is instilling a general sense in her daughter that she will have to compete with others throughout her life. Competition is thus an example of an American _________.

In the U.S, full-time working women annually earn about ____ % of what full-time working men make.

Joey, a member of the punk subculture, would sit in the school cafeteria and stare at the school “jocks” as if they were a foreign people. One day, he turned to me, shrugged his shoulders, and said, “I can’t understand what makes those guys tick. But, whatever, that’s cool, I don’t do what they do or like what they like, but I’m no better than them… people are just different.” Joey is exhibiting:

A football coach plays the tough guy when he is performing his job with the members of his team, to the point he often gets up in their face and screams at them. But his wife knows him as gentle and kind, and he never raises his voice at home. His behavior as a coach illustrates his use of:

__________ is an economic system based on private property and market exchange.

To “stigmatize” someone is to:

Markets involve exchanges among which three principal classes of economic actors?

In the 1960s, the U.S. government launched the __________, a policy initiative to reduce poverty and racial inequality.

As a judge, Ms. Johnson is expected to administer cases, meet with legal counsel, write legal rulings, decide the sentences of those convicted, among other duties. In sociological terms, all of the duties and expectations she must fulfill to keep her job as judge add up to her: __________.

Calculate the pH of a solution formed by mixing 200.0 mL of 0.20 M HClO with 200.0 mL of 0.40 M KClO.  The Ka for HClO is 2.9 × 10-8. 5.86 7.84 7.54 7.24