Durkheim suggested that every society is organized around __________
A) religious justifications for hierarchy and domination
B) certain religious ideas that helped spread capitalism
C) understandings of blasphemy and apostasy
D) notions of the sacred and the profane
Answer: D
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What conclusion did the National Bureau of Economic Research reach about gays and lesbians as subjects of sociological research?
A. Most research treats its gay and lesbian subjects with contempt. B. Most research ignores the possibility that its subjects might be gay or lesbian. C. Most research underreports the number of gays and lesbians in a population. D. Most research begins from a position that sexuality is fluid and that gays and lesbians are in a state of transition.
The American Academy of Pediatricians suggests that
A) children over two watch no more than one to two hours of television per day. B) babies are not affected by television viewing. C) children under the age of four should not watch any television. D) children ages two to six can safely view up to four hours of television per day.
Dr. Dobbins argues the words we use, such as "welfare," influence how we feel about people receiving assistance. Dr. Dobbins is a
a. structural functionalist b. conflict theorist. c. symbolic interactionist. d. postmodernist.
The social science discipline that concentrates on the study of artifacts, social structure, ideas, values, and forms of communication is ________
A) political science B) social physics C) anthropology D) psychology