During the Industrial Revolution, which began in the __________ century, the application of steam power and later oil and electricity as energy sources for industry, mining, manufacturing, and transportation brought fundamental changes to the economy, the nature of work, family organization, and a transition from rural to urban life.
A. seventeenth
B. eighteenth
C. nineteenth
D. twentieth
Answer: B
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a. illegitimate power b. routinization of charisma c. globalization d. socialism
Students who sit quietly in class and take careful notes are fulfilling unwritten societal rules of behavior, which are called_________
A) mores B) values C) norms D) material culture
A student states that technological societies are better than agrarian societies. How would a sociologist respond based on cultural relativism?
A. Each society needs to be judged on its own merits rather than compared to each other. B. As societies progress, they get typically improve and grow. C. Technological societies are the most advanced societies that can exist. D. Agrarian societies establish stronger cultural bonds and should be judged accordingly.
The decline in the birthrate that caused a marked decrease in elementary and high school enrollment had a less severe impact on college enrollment because:
a. colleges do not accept all applicants b. governments continued to subsidize colleges despite declines in enrollment c. many colleges closed d. there was a large increase in the number of older students