Which sociological perspective emphasizes how schools in the U.S. foster competition through built-in systems of rewards and punishments?
A. conflict perspective
B. global perspective
C. functionalist perspective
D. interactionist perspective
Answer: A
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a. social control of sexuality becomes more strict. b. families, rather than individuals, make choices about sexual partners. c. social norms regarding sexuality become more permissive. d. the incest taboo no longer is observed.
Which of the following policy mechanisms have limited opportunities for African Americans to own property?
a. Failure of Reconstruction policies to provide material support to former slaves b Suburbanization c. Unequal access to mortgages d. All of the above
Children appear to be a primary source of stress for many parents. This stress can get intense when the marriage itself is troubled and one parent enlists a child into a coalition against the other parent. This situation is referred to by systems theorists as ________.
A. co-parent alienation B. conflict assumption C. desertification D. triangulation
Which one of the following is not one of Homans’s behaviorist propositions?
a. success b. satisfaction c. value d. stimulus