Instrumental communication involves sending messages that are ends in themselves.

What is the tendency to choose romantic partners based on similarities in background and group membership?

A) homogamy
B) background knowledge
C) reflexivity
D) heteronormativity

Most serial killers appear very __________.

At Mississippi's Parchman Prison Farm,how many prisoners died under cruel working conditions?

A) one in two
B) one in six
C) one in twenty
D) one in forty-five

Which of the frameworks used for responding to racial inequalities aspires to the goal of living in a society where people are judged "not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character," as Martin Luther King,Jr. ,once stated?

A) color-blindness
B) multiculturalism
C) cosmopolitanism
D) racial democracy

Southern Theory affirms the importance of abstract texts as a means and medium of theoretical communication.

Which contemporary social issue would most likely interest Robert Park?

A) The changing makeup of urban neighborhoods
B) The universal Medicare movement
C) The use of social media in political communication
D) The marginalization of the American family farm

Irving Goffman's frames enable individuals to _____, or bring clarity towards what is and is not important in the surroundings.

A) analyze frames
B) focus attention
C) articulate mechanisms
D) transform functions

_____ copy refers to sending copies of a letter to people other than the identified recipient without indicating on the letter that you are doing so.

A) Unstated
B) Secret
C) Blind
D) Nonbinding

People who are interviewed haphazardly on a street corner do not constitute a representative sample of American adults because:

A) it is too diverse of a sample
B) the sample is too concentrated
C) the sample will overlook children
D) the Hawthorne effect will ruin the sample
E) the sample does not include people who live outside of the area and do not frequent the street corner