You are conducting an experiment to test confidence in advice given on a nutritional discussion board. You found evidence in the literature that suggests people have more confidence in discussion posts from users who include educational background in their profiles. Write a directional hypothesis using this information.

What will be an ideal response?


May vary. One possible example: “Trust will be significantly higher for subjects
who read discussion posts made by contributors with educational background in their
profile than for those without educational background in their profile.”

Sociology

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What will be an ideal response?

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The theory of differential association and the subcultural approach to juvenile delinquency exemplify which approach to the explanation of crime?

a. anomie theory b. interactionism c. conflict theory d. demographic factor e. biological

Sociology

Conflict in a group has only negative consequences

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology

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

1. George Ritzer is more concerned with the dialectical relationships between his four levels of social analysis rather that the levels themselves. 2. C. Wright Mills uses George Ritzer’s ideas about micro-level personal troubles and macro-level public issues to analyze credit cards. 3. There is a dialectical relationship between personal troubles and public issues because each exacerbates the other. 4.Although the terminology is slightly different, there are few if any differences between the integrative models offered by Jeffrey Alexander and George Ritzer. 5. Randall Collins reduced the importance of the macro in his radical microsociology.

Sociology