If You Are Writing to Someone to Request a Recommendation

question 89

True/False

If you are writing to someone to request a recommendation letter for a job or scholarship,you should include a stamped,preaddressed envelope for mailing.

Explain how culture shock can reveal the relativity of cultural norms.

Distinguish between material and symbolic culture and identify the components of symbolic culture.

Understand the difference between ideal culture and real culture, with examples of their contradictions.

Understand the steps and sequence in the scientific method in sociological research.

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Definitions:

Laissez-Faire Capitalism

A hypothetical economic system in which the government’s economic role is limited to protecting private property and establishing a legal environment appropriate to the operation of markets in which only mutually agreeable transactions take place between buyers and sellers; sometimes referred to as “pure capitalism.”

Specialization

The use of the resources of an individual, a firm, a region, or a nation to concentrate production on one or a small number of goods and services.

Total Output

The total amount of goods or services produced by an economy, industry, company, or individual over a specific period.

Continued Losses

Ongoing financial deficits where expenses exceed revenues over a period of time.