In the box, Extreme Heroic Action, sociologist Brendan Maguire uses structural theory to hypothesize that professional wrestling is popular in social worlds characterized by
A. weak forms of social control.
B. anxiety and social disenchantment.
C. traditional gender relations.
D. strong community ties.
Answer: B
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In large corporations, what is the effect of the power concentration on worker unions?
a. It has empowered unions to represent workers' issues. b. It has reduced the extent to which unions can push their demands. c. It has given unions power to decide the wages of workers. d. It has led to the enactment of policies that ban the formation of unions.
__________________ is especially useful for studying behavior as it happens
a. A self-administered questionnaire c. An interview b. Secondary data analysis d. Observation
Researchers compared the levels of hunger and malnutrition in poverty-stricken areas of the United States before and after the implementation of nutrition and food stamp programs. They concluded that the programs
a. actually made the situation worse because it encouraged people to become dependent on government handouts which were discontinued when the funding ran out halfway through the fiscal year. b. had not made much difference in hunger and malnutrition because of bureaucratic misapplication -- too much aid was given to people who did not really need it and too little was given to people who really did need it. c. helped many and reduced hunger and malnutrition by about half but needed to be expanded to help more. d. virtually eliminated hunger and made it difficult to find much evidence of the malnutrition identified in the earlier study.
Which intermarriage best illustrates Kennedy's concept of the triple melting pot?
A. marriage between an Irish Catholic woman and a Russian Jewish man B. an interracial marriage between an African American man and a European American woman C. marriage between an Irish Catholic man and an Irish Protestant woman D. marriage between a Native American woman and a French Protestant man E. marriage between a Polish Jewish man and a Russian Jewish woman