According to Talcott Parsons, the polity or political subsystem achieves the _____ imperative of the larger social system.
Select one.
a. adaptive
b. goal attainment
c. latency or pattern maintenance
d. integrative
c. latency or pattern maintenance
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The perspective of __________ suggests that people with similar attributes find a collectivity of like-minded persons with whom they can express their underlying personal tendencies
a. contagion theory b. convergence theory c. emergent norm theory d. psychoanalytic theory
A sociologist asks 100 people which jobs they find to be the most prestigious within society. He then ranks the jobs based on the responses from the 100 people he interviewed. What type of scale is the sociologist constructing?
A. income ranking B. occupational attainment C. social structure D. occupational prestige
Corporate women still encounter a "glass ceiling" that prevents them from being promoted to high levels in the company
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The civil rights legislation of the 1960s was ineffective against discrimination because
A. the burden of litigation was placed on the victim of discrimination. B. prejudice was no longer an important dimension in American society. C. the burden was placed on the discriminators. D. both a and c