A certain company is known to be profitable, but for years by-products from its plant have been polluting a nearby stream. The company management has decided that it would not be cost effective to clean up the stream. This is an example of
a. Theory X.
b. Theory Y.
c. contingency theory.
d. bureaucratic rigidity.
e. externalizing costs.
e
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A. ground frost B. solid frost C. perma frost D. grime frost
Persons of low status are more likely to join and actively participate in all sorts of organizations, and the joining of churches and attending services are another manifestation of this tendency
a. true b. false
An advantage(s) of field research is(are) that: a. it enables the researcher to draw statistical conclusions about the population
b. the researcher can control the variables under study. c. social processes can be studied over time. d. hypotheses can be rigorously tested. e. all of these choices are advantages of field research.
The health care system is an example of an organized arrangement of relationships and institutions that form one basis of society—helping people when they are ill. Therefore, the health care system is part of __________
a. a social problem b. the social structure c. a cultural marketing strategy d. the sociological imagination