Explain the concept of the Industrial Revolution as the Great Transformation. What were some of the key elements of this transformation?
What will be an ideal response?
Karly Planyi coined the term Great Transformation to refer to the global changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution. By this he meant that goods, land and labor took on a standardized monetary value, relationships based on contracts, the domination of the corporate form, the selling of labor for wages and the spread of political rights and equality.
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What conclusion did the National Bureau of Economic Research reach about gays and lesbians as subjects of sociological research?
A. Most research treats its gay and lesbian subjects with contempt. B. Most research ignores the possibility that its subjects might be gay or lesbian. C. Most research underreports the number of gays and lesbians in a population. D. Most research begins from a position that sexuality is fluid and that gays and lesbians are in a state of transition.
Which national sport has the most female viewers?
A. NASCAR B. National Basketball Association C. National Hockey League D. National Football League
Periodicity is particularly important in: a. simple random sampling
b. availability sampling. c. stratified sampling. d. quota sampling. e. systematic sampling.
One unintended or unexpected disruption of socially assistive robots is that people may actually prefer the company of robots over fellow humans. This situation represents
a. latent function. b. manifest dysfunction. c. latent dysfunction. d. manifest function.