In a small seminar class, there were eight Protestants, four Catholics, three Jews, two Muslims, a Buddhist, and seven students with no religious affiliation ("Nones"). The mode for this variable is
a. eight.
b. undefined since the variable is nominal in level of measurement.
c. Protestant.
d. the same as the median.
ANSWER: c
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a. In rural, agricultural societies b. Where stratification is linked to class rather than race c. When the subordinated group is the numerical minority d. When the division of labor is highly complex
__________ theory construction and hypothesis testing are examples of what Karl Popper called the falsifiability of science
a. idiosyncratic. b. nomothetic. c. inductive. d. deductive. e. qualitative.
The concentric-zone theory tended to understate or ignore certain tensions apparent in metropolitan areas because:
A. it supported the view that a metropolitan area has multiple centers of development. B. of its emphasis on change. C. of its functionalist orientation. D. it held that all urban growth does not radiate outward from a central business district.
Sociology focuses on the ways in which the social world is continually changing.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)