Coca-Cola was first marketed in the 1860s as a patient medicine, which was designed to offer the energy boost of cocaine without the vices of alcohol. The new beverage was invigorating and popular. Today, however, cocaine is not just banned, but widely demonized. This is an example of

Regarding gender, functionalists generally believe that

A young person from Southern California has four German grandparents. She lived in Los Angeles all her life before accepting a job in Milwaukee. She has never really thought about her German heritage. In Milwaukee, she discovers many other people with similar ancestries and begins using her ethnicity as a way to develop social and professional relationships. Of what is this an example?

Women are the main characters in the vast majority of commercials that advertise cleaning supplies. This illustrates that

An example of discrimination is

This represents the first successful school desegregation in U.S. history

What city was central for Mexicans and Americans, due to close proximity to the border and railroads, which also became home to racial tensions that resulted in the 1916 riots?

Greg J. Duncan and a team of researchers analyzed the effect of parental income on the academic achievement of children. What do you think Duncan found given what you have read about socioeconomic status and life chances?

September 16th is known as

What term did we discuss that referred to the feeling of belonging to a group; feeling of having a connection to others