TABLE 3-7 in a Recent Academic Year, Many Public Universities in the in the United

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TABLE 3-7
In a recent academic year, many public universities in the United States raised tuition and fees due to a decrease in state subsidies. The change in the cost of tuition, a shared dormitory room, and the most popular meal plan from the previous academic year for a sample of 10 public universities were as follows: $1,589, $593, $1,223, $869, $423, $1,720, $708, $1425, $922 and $308.
-Referring to Table 3-7, are the data skewed? If so, how?

Understand Charles Taylor’s perspective on how the self and sociality are framed within modernity.

Comprehend the significance of various institutions in shaping modernity according to different sociologists.

Recognize Ulrich Beck’s theory on the entwinement of nature and society and the concept of reflexive modernity.

Identify the impacts and consequences of modernity as described by sociologists like Anthony Giddens and Zygmunt Bauman.

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