Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Parsons worked in middle-range theories while Merton developed master schema.
2. Deviance occurs when the values of a society are out of sync with the means available for achieving them.
3. Merton emphasized the Parsonian notion of society through his conceptions of manifest and latent functions.
4. Merton proposed that status of a role is fixed.


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE

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