What is a subsidy
a. payment made by a business to support growth
b. payment made by a country to a producer of some good within that country
c. tax on a good produce by a company within a country
d. tax on services rendered by companies by the government?

What are objects called that have value in and of themselves as well as value as a means of exchange? custom commodity money currency simple money

How did the end of the mexican american war result in growing sectionalism in the united states?

Asociologist wants to study a culture that occurs in some women’s prisons: “state families,” in which individual prisoners take on certain roles within a group of like-minded prisoners. there is previous evidence that younger prisoners will use older inmates who play the roles of grandparents as a resource before they will turn to staff for and advice. the lieutenant in charge of a dorm of long-term prisoners offers to gather volunteers to speak to the researcher and also offers to vouch for the integrity of the researcher. the use of this staff is: a valid use of a statistical technique referred to “snowball sampling” wherein the inclusion of the first subject leads to the recruitment of another one subject. a useful tactic in obtaining a sample of prisoners who both meet the criteria and who will be honest with the researcher. wrong and is prohibited; subject selection needs to be free from intervention by prison authorities or prisoners. acceptable only when the researcher’s irb grants a special waiver.