Explaining a new behavior as the almost-automatic outcome of changing technology:
a. fails to recognize how technology interacts with social change, often being developed or adopted because of political, social and economic change
b. rejects human agency in explaining why we do what we do
c. allows businesses to predict what will happen if people buy their product
d. makes ethical decisions and moral reasoning impossible
a. fails to recognize how technology interacts with social change, often being developed or adopted because of political, social and economic change
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a. manifest function. c. manifest dysfunction. b. latent function. d. latent dysfunction.
In an experiment, the independent variable never changes—only the dependent variable will change
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The release of what type of offender is frequently offered as a way to reduce the prison population?