Suppose someone argues that in the world only those species disappear for which there is no use or importance, and the proof that they are unimportant is the fact that they disappeared. This illustrates the fallacy of ________________
A. misplaced concreteness
B. authority
C. circular reasoning
D. non sequitur
C
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What will be an ideal response?
Beverly has been a widow for three years. She has a desire to meet someone and marry again. According to the textbook, her main problem will be:
a. family disapproval. b. their lack of identity. c. the shortage of men. d. emotional instability.
When elite athletes experience a crisis of meaning in sports, research suggests that they
A. seek to change the rules of sports and the expectations of coaches. B. challenge the religious beliefs of their coaches. C. drop out of sports and focus on spiritual forms of recreation. D. use sport participation as a platform to promote their religious beliefs.
Which of the following describes ethnomethodologists’ critique that sociologists are separated from the social?
a. Sociologists impose their own ideas on social reality rather than let the study of everyday life guide the construction of their ideas about reality. b. Sociologists need to utilize more statistical methods rather than rely on qualitative research. c. Sociologists utilize daily life as a resource (mainly in the form of data) yet seldom consider daily life worthy of study in and of itself. d. Social order is not a reality in itself but rather is an accomplishment of social actors.