Richard had lived on the street for almost a year. His days were busy with doing things necessary to survive at a basic level–finding shelter, keeping safe, panhandling for money, getting food and drink, washing, and finding dry clothes
Richard knew that he did not have many chances. A _____ would stress that Richard is located at the bottom of the U.S. social class system, and that his low status means that most opportunities are closed to him. a. microsociologist
b. symbolic interactionist
c. research sociologist
d. conflict theorist
d. conflict theorist
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Park and Gordon disagreed that cultural assimilation must lead to other forms of assimilation
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Suppose you were conducting an ANOVA with 6 groups of 10 participants each. What are your between-groups and within-groups degrees of freedom, respectively?
A) 6; 60 B) 60; 6 C) 54; 6 D) 5; 54
Which of the following do Sanderson and Alderson consider a major flaw in classical evolutionary theorizing
a. there was not enough emphasis on the ideational or mental aspects of social evolution b. the classical evolutionists passed off mere descriptions of evolutionary changes as explanations c. the early evolutionary theories were rather ethnocentric d. two of these e. none of these
When Americans consider the nuclear family to be the "normal" family and single-parent or blended families to be lesser or not as good, they are echoing the _____ perspective
A. Symbolic Interactionism B. Conflict Theory C. Structural-Functional Theory D. Biosocial Theory