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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Attitudes toward gender roles have changed, so that today

a. only 10 percent of men think that one parent should stay at home while the other is working b. both men and women say it is not fair for men to be the sole decision maker in the household. c. women no longer believe they will be discriminated against men in employment. d. men and women both agree that gender discrimination should be illegal.

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White nationalism in the United States _______________.

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