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Please select ALL of the following racial classifications that Mexicans/Mexican Americans/Chicanxs have been labeled by the U.S. government in different census years up until 2020.

One of the most powerful agents of socialization for teaching people ideas about what is “normal” in their respective society is: 

The greatest material inequalities in the world are found between ________________. 

Cultural norms that disadvantage some members of the society exist by design according to the _________________ paradigm.

A researcher wants to understand how gender affects formal educational attainment. Which variable is the independent variable?

A type of institutionalized racism where race is claimed to be irrelevant:

In your book, a country is described that radically transformed its educational system and brought up its ranking substantially as a result. This country is: 

According to the explained video in the module (which is summarizing work by sociologists Conley, Massey, Denton, Shapiro, and others) what is one of the primary reasons for the wealth gap between White families and Black and Latinx families today?

Noting that two crimes can be quite similar but the differential punishments depend on the relative power of the parties involved is a hallmark of the _______________ paradigm. 

Deepak travels to Jordan for a semester of study. Every morning he walks to the corner stand and buys fresh, delicious falafal and hummus for breakfast, even though this is not what he is used to eating at home. Rather than thinking of this food as weird, he takes a ________________________ approach and simply sees it as different.