The distinguishing feature of the postindustrial society is
a. the ability to produce goods and services at revolutionary speeds.
b. the mass production of goods that allowed people to purchase more products than they needed.
c. the tremendous change of scale in the number of people a person knows or can know.
d. that a small percentage of the population can grow food needed to sustain society.
c
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a. rational will b. natural will c. organic solidarity d. mechanical solidarity
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a) suppression of appetite b) burst of energy c) depression and paranoia d) hallucinations
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a. institutionalized b. embodied c. objectified d. significant
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a. folkway b. ideology c. symbolic culture d. contradiction