Which of the following focuses on the interrelationships between large-scale social structures and institutions, including how they constrain actors?

A. structuralism
B. functionalism
C. structural functionalism
D. societal functionalism


D. societal functionalism

Sociology

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In what ways can a network can be both denser and looser than a group?

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

While human agency is important, we should not minimize the power of the structures that subordinate people, making change difficult or, at times, impossible

a. true b. false

Sociology

Unions are often formed for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

a. workers realize they are powerless they are as individuals. b. U.S. law assigns ultimate power to the employer who counts the company as private property. c. management wants workers to have fair representation. d. workers need job protection from arbitrary firing or other discipline.

Sociology

Which of the following concepts, used by Emile Durkheim, means about the same thing as Tönnies's concept, Gesellschaft?

a. mechanical solidarity b. organic solidarity c. Gemeinschaft d. the blasé urbanite

Sociology