As a leading ______ theorist, Talcott Parsons had a ______ view of macro-level societies.
A. symbolic interaction; constructionist
B. conflict; negative
C. structural-functionalist; positive
D. ethnomethodologist; dismissive
Answer: C
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Which of the following is the most accurate description of the relationship between race, crime, and political representation?
A) Whites face substantial obstacles to exercising their right to vote because they are the most frequent targets of illegal voter intimidation efforts. B) Blacks and Latinos disproportionately face obstacles to exercising their right to vote because they are also disproportionately convicted of felonies, which suspends their right to vote. C) Whites are disproportionately unable to obtain voter IDs because they are disproportionately convicted of felonies, which suspends their right to vote. D) Blacks and whites are equally convicted of felonies, so they have their rights to vote suspended at equal rates.
From the perspective of __________, religious ideologies serve to support the status quo and inhibit social change
a. functionalism b. symbolic interactionism c. conflict theory d. postmodernism
Who wrote, “Knowledge is shaped by the social world?”
a. Alexis de Tocqueville b. Herbert Spencer c. Karl Mannheim d. George Hebert Mead
In Burgess and Park's concentric-zone model, the zone that is inhabited by people who do not want to live in the business district but need to live reasonably close to where they work is the:
a. loop b. residential zone c. zone in transition d. zone of working people's homes