The functionalist argument that an abundance of specialists encourages the use of expensive and sophisticated treatments when simpler ones would be just as effective refers to the issue of __________.

A. professional dominance
B. restricted entry
C. information
D. misallocated supply


Answer: D

Sociology

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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology

According to sociologist Karl Marx, when the workers realized that capitalists were the source of their oppression, they would overthrow the capitalists and their agents of social control, leading to the end of capitalism. The workers would then take over the government and create a(n) society

a. free b. caste c. egalitarian d. stratified

Sociology

Regarding theories of childrearing, Richard Bell researched:

A. parenting styles. B. bidirectional effects. C. parenthood as crisis. D. voluntary childlessness.

Sociology

Identify the twin emphases of functionalism.

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology