In Korea young children of both sexes bathe with their mothers and other women in public. This expectation for behavior in the context of a bathhouse is a
a. belief.
b. value.
c. norm.
d. way of life.
c
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The legal humiliation of de jure school segregation was attacked in the landmark decree of ________
a. Smith v. Allwright b. Brown v. Board of Education c. Plessy v. Ferguson d. Williams v. Mississippi
Gwen, an advocate of sexual reform knows (from research studies) that condoms can prevent sexual transmitted diseases as well as pregnancy. She decides to educate incoming freshman at her university about the advantages of using the condom through a short film depicting various characters. Some of the characters portray traditional mindsets (refusing to wear condoms); some portray the more
liberal mindsets (proponents of condoms); and some of the characters are transitional characters who move from traditional to more liberal in their adoption of condom use. She plans on recording the rates of pregnancy/STDs for the incoming freshman at her university before and after the educational short film. She also plans on comparing her results with those of freshman at a different university with similar demographics who do not watch the educational short film. The rates for pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases is the a. social indicator. b. social intervention. c. social outcome. d. response variable. e. evaluation commitment.
Mass-society theory offers a criticism of modern society as having ________
a. become less and less affluent. b. pushed minorities to the margins. c. become an impersonal mass of socially rootless people. d. All of these responses are correct.
Which sociologist explained that “especially in rapidly changing societies, differences in birth year expose individuals to differences in historical worlds, with their constraints and options”?
a. Patricia Hill Collins b. Robert Merton c. Glen Elder d. Arlie Hochschild