In Allan Johnson's piece "What Can We Do" (RN) he discusses the idea of "Stubborn Ounces". Who or what are "stubborn ounces"?

A. people who complain about people who try to make change
B. the tiny impact one person can make in creating social change
C. a unit used by social movements to measure resistance they are likely to encounter
D. people who don't believe change is possible


Answer: B. the tiny impact one person can make in creating social change

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a. Symbolic interactionists c. Ethnomethodologists b. Dramaturgical sociologists d. Conflict theorists

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Sociologists who study relatively small, less complex, and less differentiated patterns of social interaction are using

A. microanalysis. B. macroanalysis. C. structural analysis. D. organic analysis.

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Of the following theorists, who believed that the entire history of human societies could be seen as a history of struggles between those who own and control the means of production and those who do the work?

a. Émile Durkheim b. Karl Marx c. Herbert Spencer d. Max Weber e. Harriet Martineau

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Martin is a centenarian. What does that mean?

A. He is 100 years old or older. B. He is 75 years or older. C. He is 65 years or older. D. He has been dead for at least one year.

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