Some Americans Are Angry About How Many Immigrants Enter the Country

question 71

Multiple Choice

Some Americans are angry about how many immigrants enter the country every year. A supporter of structural functionalism would argue that this anger

• A) hurts the economy by preventing immigration.
• B) is unequally distributed, since it is mainly aimed at poor and working-class immigrants.
• C) is a form of cyberbullying, since the anger is generally expressed online.
• D) promotes social cohesion among nonimmigrants as they come together and label immigrants as outsiders.

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Definitions:

Groups

Collections of individuals who interact with each other based on shared interests, goals, or characteristics.

Centralization

The concentration of decision-making authority at the top levels of an organization or system.

Saturation

In research, it refers to the point at which collecting more data does not yield new information; broadly, it can also mean the state of being fully soaked or filled.

Efficiency

The ability to accomplish a task or goal with a minimal waste of time, effort, and resource.