What does the theoretical syntheses movement in sociological theory hope to link together?
a. individual people with large scale social phenomena
b. small groups and organizations with large scale social phenomena
c. fragmented sociological theories
d. poststructuralism and postmodernism
c. fragmented sociological theories
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In 1945, sociologists Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore made the claim that inequality has useful consequences for the operation of society. This claim is consistent with which type of theoretical analysis?
a. symbolic-interaction analysis b. social-disorganization analysis c. social-conflict analysis d. structural-functional analysis
The Internet is not a truly global medium, because Africans, Middle-Easterners, and Latin Americans do not have Internet capabilities to enable their residents to "get online."
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
On the basis of the most recently available information, the racial-ethnic group with the highest divorce rate in the United States is
A. Native American. B. Asian. C. non-Hispanic white. D. African American.
Your mom and dad are approaching retirement age, but plan to continuing working for another year or two. They are not alone. There are several reasons that the age at retirement is increasing. Which is not one of these reasons?
A. Changes to Social Security have created many incentives to continue working and have made work more attractive relative to retirement. B. Combine the decline of employer-provided retiree health insurance with the rapid rise in health care costs, and workers have a strong incentive to keep working and maintain their employer’s health coverage until they qualify for Medicare. C. Some elders sustained significant losses to their retirement funds, were forced to take pay cuts during the recession, or didn’t save adequately, and now work longer to make up the difference. D. The shift from a 401(k) plans to a defined benefit eliminated built-in incentives to retire; workers covered defined benefit plans retire a year or two later on average than similarly situated workers with a 401(k).