If We Based Our Ideas About the Real World on the Images

question 170

Multiple Choice

If we based our ideas about the real world on the images seen on TV, we would believe

• A)women make up only 28 percent of the population
• B)a vast majority of minorities hold high political offices and are CEOs of major companies.
• C)the victims of crime are usually elderly people.
• D)women hold more responsible positions in business than they actually do.

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Definitions:

Social System

A complex set of human relationships interacting in many ways within a community or society.

Scarcity

The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human wants in a world of limited resources.

Production Possibilities Frontiers

is a curve depicting all maximum output possibilities for two or more goods given a set of inputs (resources, labor, etc.), assuming all inputs are used efficiently.

Great Depression

A severe worldwide economic downturn that took place during the 1930s, starting in the United States, leading to high unemployment and financial instability.