Van says that his 48-year-old Catholic uncle will marry his 23-year-old atheist girlfriend next year in order to prove that the social regularity that people tend to marry people like themselves is not accurate. What is your best response as a methodologist?
a. The objection that social regularities could be upset through the conscious will of the actors is not a serious challenge to social science
b. Van's uncle is simply an exception to the rule
c. This regularity is too trivial to be meaningful
d. We need to develop a measure for "marry people like themselves"
e. It's a mistake that Van's uncle may regret in the future
A
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