In Robert K. Merton's study of deviance, the acceptance of both the cultural goals of society and the accepted means of achieving them is termed:
a. conformity
b. innovation
c. retreatism
d. ritualism
A
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Karl Marx, speaking for the social-conflict approach, argued that the point of studying society was
a. to understand how society really operates. b. to compare U.S. society to others. c. to foster support for a nation's government. d. to bring about greater social justice.
Which of the following statements is true of micro-interactional assaults involving inner-city girls?
A. They are one-off occurrences in an inner-city girl's life. B. They usually occur in a girl's daily routine settings. C. They are usually drawn into it because they are perceived as rich. D. They generally involve sexual and domestic violence.
Which of the following statements BEST describes the trend in jobs in the past century?
a. The educational requirements for most jobs have decreased dramatically. b. There has been a dramatic rise in the number of independent business people. c. There has been a dramatic shift from goods-producing to service-producing jobs. d. There has been a dramatic shift from public sector to private-sector jobs.
Which of the following is NOT a reason that native-born white women became the major source of labor supply for clerical jobs in this century?
a. willingness to accept lower pay than men b. the high status and high pay of clerical work relative to factory and service work c. they already possessed many of the necessary skills because of increasingly widespread secondary education d. they generally have better written language skills than men, and thus are better suited to the job e. immigrants and minority women experienced discrimination in hiring for clerical jobs.