Preexisting organizations that can provide the new movement with leaders, members, phone lines, copy machines, and other resources are known in political process theory as:
a. political opportunities.
b. pork.
c. extravagancies.
d. process opportunities.
a
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Secondary analysis includes a variety of research techniques that use
A. questionnaires and interviews. B. participant observation. C. publicly accessible information and data, or data collected by another. D. control groups.
School violence is caused by all of the following, except for
a. increased availability of guns. b. media violence. c. violent sports competition. d. the culture of violence.
Taking a conflict approach, how might one analyze the growing phenomenon of unpaid internships?
A. Because all have the same chance of participating, the experience is beneficial to students, employers, and societies as a whole. B. Some students will be unwilling to work without pay in order to enhance their skills and so should suffer the consequences of their choice. C. Because the hardships of suffering through an unpaid internship are common, they will be a rite of passage for many college graduates, and this will promote a shared outlook. D. Many students will be unfairly disadvantaged because while they might want to take an unpaid position and reap the benefits of knowledge and social connections attached to it, they are not in a position to do so.
Which sociological perspective would be most likely to argue that policymakers have been slow to respond to the AIDS crisis because those in high-risk groups, such as gay men and intravenous drug users, are comparatively powerless?
A. functionalist perspective B. conflict perspective C. interactionist perspective D. global perspective