What is an agent provocateur?

What will be an ideal response?


An agent provocateur is someone who joins a group, such as a social movement, in order to spy on it and to sabotage it by provoking its members to commit extreme acts.

Sociology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Social Security is an intergenerational safety net to reduce poverty

a. True b. False

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James defines his family in terms of the biological parents with whom he lives. This way of defining family is ________.

A. augmentation B. reduction C. substitution D. retention

Sociology