When immigrants are allowed to maintain their traditional ways while at the same time learning the values and norms of the host culture, their assimilation would take the form of ____
a. population transfer
b. Anglo-conformity
c. cultural pluralism
d. melting pot
e. cultural attribution
C
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The exciting prospects for computer simulation of social indicators research include all but which of the following?
a. One day it will be possible to test the implications of specific social changes by computer rather than real life. b. It will make human researchers an unnecessary component of the scientific method c. It provides a means for us to know whether or not a specific alteration may make life better. d. Planners can quickly examine different plans. e. When contemplating the introduction of an intervention, it will be possible to get a description of all the direct and indirect consequences of it.
Which sociological method deliberately manipulates social customs and mores and tests cause and effect relationships pertaining to these manipulations?
a. Case studies b. Surveys c. Experiments d. Participant Observation
A voting point refers to which of the following?
a. the cost to advertisers to reach each one thousand people watching a particular program b. one percent of the 112.8 million households in the U.S. tuned in to a particular program c. the ranking of television news programs based on the number of households that are tuned in d. points awarded to television programs by viewers based on a representative probability sample of U.S. households
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Control theory reminds us that while the media may focus on crime and disorder, most members of most societies conform to and obey basic norms. 2. According to journalist Naomi Wolf, women in the U.S. who do not conform to the beauty myth are viewed as deviant. 3. Both men and women in the U.S. may be stigmatized when they fail to conform to standards of attractiveness. 4. The high degree of anonymity allowing for uncivil behavior when using the Internet has resulted in calls for the establishment of formal rules for online behavior. 5. Recent sociological research supports the position that some forms of crime and deviance have genetic roots.