Which of the following is an example of Robert Merton's institutionalized means to achieve economic success?
A) ?Completing college
B) ?Creating diversity
C) ?Having cultural strain
D) ?Being unemployed
E) ?Being non-adjusting
A
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a. the interrelationship between space and time b. nonverbal signals c. the conflict within families d. the conflict between classes
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a. deals with its ongoing problems. b. brings about social change. c. allows for free choice. d. balances the power of the elites.
The growth of large institutional medical care
a. spawned hundreds of for-profit corporations. b. reduced costs because of greater efficiency. c. was privately financed because of the lack of federal funds. d. slowed down medical breakthroughs because of "red tape."
The Theory of Demographic Transition
a. assumes an automatic solution to the population problem. b. categorizes most the world as still in the first phase. c. pessimistically predicts that massive deaths will occur to curb population. d. is cynical about modernization being able to solve population problems.