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This activity contains 10 questions.

	Relative deprivation implies a fixed standard of living based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.    True  False

	Those people who feel most frustrated and disgruntled by the social and economic conditions of their lives are the worst off in an objective sense.    True  False

	Numbers runners, drug dealers, prostitutes, and cooks being paid off the books by a small, local restaurant are all examples of the informal economy.    True  False

	William Julius Wilson and others have stressed that it is poor work habits and laziness, not structural factors that have led to the development of an underclass in the United States.    True  False

	On average, African American men earn more money that White women.    True  False

	The two main agents of social change working to reduce discrimination are: voluntary associations and corporations.    True  False

	The Civil Rights Act of 1964 only covered discrimination based on race, color, creed, and national origin.    True  False

	Sociologist Robert Bullard has shown that low-income communities and areas with significant minority populations are more likely to be adjacent to waste sites than are affluent White communities.    True  False

	Allan Bakke was rejected by the University of California at Davis medical school in a famous illustration of glass ceilings.    True  False

	Glass ceilings are the only discrimination barriers that minorities face.    True  False

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