People in North American society tend to believe in _____, the idea that things will keep getting better
a. progress
b. upward mobility
c. industriousness
d. entitlement
Answer: a. progress
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When anthropologists Cynthia Mahmood and Sharon Armstrong traveled to Friesland to study the Frisian people's reaction to a book they had written about them, the two researchers found that the villagers
a. could not agree on a single "truth" about them as described in the book. b. insisted that they were not a culture. c. identified a number of cultural characteristics they shared that were not in the book. d. asked the two researchers to update the book about them.
Examples of people applying their knowledge of sociology at work include people in medicine ________
a. declining to treat certain categories of people. b. understanding patterns of health in a community. c. working as clinical sociologists. d. understanding that factors like race, class and gender have no effect on well-being.
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. the social structure B. Durkheimian theory C. a cultural marketing strategy D. the sociological imagination
The first convention in history devoted to women's rights was held in July 1848 in __________.
A. Montgomery, Alabama B. Seneca Falls, New York C. Waldon Pond, Massachusetts D. Amherst, Massachusetts