Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. While both are sociologies of everyday life, ethnomethodology focuses on what people do while phenomenology emphasizes what people think.
2. Talcott Parsons became the dominant sociological figure in the United States by developing theories outside the European tradition.
3. Talcott Parsons is best described as a structural functionalist because he theorized about both social structures and action systems.
4. Both Talcott Parsons and George Homans thought theory should be constructed inductively, or from the ground up.
5. Because they were committed to the Marxist tradition, the founding scholars of The Institute of Social Research (also known as “The Frankfurt School”) rejected the work of both Max Weber and Sigmund Freud.


1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False

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