Tony, unable to sleep, takes a tranquilizer along with barbiturates. The combined action of the drugs prove to be fatal and kill him. This condition resulting from the combination of two depressants taken at a time is known as _________
a. potentiation
b. chipping
c. tolerance
d. dependence
Answer: a
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Regimentation and meaningless work can easily exist among
a. factory workers. b. service workers. c. white-collar workers. d. all of the above
All of the things that are produced in a society are called:
a. ideal culture b. ideas c. material culture d. norms
Robert Merton would say negative results of people’s actions are
a. functions b. dysfunctions c. latent functions d. balancing functions
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Parsons worked in middle-range theories while Merton developed master schema. 2. Deviance occurs when the values of a society are out of sync with the means available for achieving them. 3. Merton emphasized the Parsonian notion of society through his conceptions of manifest and latent functions. 4. Merton proposed that status of a role is fixed.