The first studies on urbanization or urban sociology adopted a ______ approach, comparing the city to a(n) organism.
A. conflict
B. interactionist
C. feminist
D. functionalist
Answer: D
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a. Modern racism b. Traditional racism c. Reverse racism d. Aversive racism
Anthropologist Leslie White maintained that inventions control people. He supported this conclusion with the argument that
a. necessity is the mother of invention.
b. when the cultural base is capable of supporting an invention that invention will come into being whether we want it or not.
c. human beings have no free will.
d. the best things in science are found because they are useful at the time.
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a. Accusations and denials are isolated to minimize escalation. b. Denials to accusations are direct. c. There are immediate responses to every accusation. d. Accusation and denials are mitigated in being made explicit.