Which theoretical analysis notes how war can have the consequence of uniting a county's population?
a. social-conflict analysis
b. symbolic-interaction analysis
c. structural-functional analysis
d. social-disorganization analysis
(Answer: c)
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__________, as measured by economic success, is strongly influenced by social position at birth
a. Educational achievement b. Equality of opportunity c. Economic equality d. Legal and political equality
Sociologists who focus on a particular social and historical environment in which social change occurs, rather than focusing on a single factor, are using which perspective of social change?
A. historical materialism B. contextual analysis C. cultural analysis D. structural analysis
Which of the following is FALSE concerning the use of tradition in inquiry? a. It helps avoid the task of starting from scratch in our search for regularities
b. It demonstrates that knowledge is cumulative. c. The jumping-off part for the development of knowledge is often the inherited body of information. d. It enables us to seek a different understanding of what we all know to be true. e. It increases our bias.
The number and proportion of older people in the U.S. is
a. gradually declining. b. staying about the same. c. rapidly increasing. d. unknown.