Which of the following is true regarding Harriet Martineau?
a. She wrote Society in America, which has ideas consistent with modern sociology.
b. She translated from French the works of John Stuart Mill.
c. She was an American social theorist.
d. She believed women were supposed to fulfill domestic roles and rear children.
Answer: A
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a. Falling from grace b. Social mobility c. Forced relocation d. Flirting with disaster
Which of the following is the best example of worker empowerment?
A) The union president has called a wildcat strike because of unsafe working conditions. B) A small work team in the design department has decided to fire one of the members of its department. C) The CEO has just opened a corporate-run daycare center for the employees to use free of charge. D) The workers' union has just negotiated the most lucrative contract in the company's history.
According to their own responses to different surveys, what do most of the elderly in Western nations prefer in their relationships with their children and grandchildren?
A. sharing the same neighborhood B. a hands-off approach C. sharing the same household D. "intimacy at a distance"
The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is ________
a. an arena of conflict between categories of people.
b. the product of people interacting in countless everyday situations.
c. a system that operates to benefit people.
d. a system that generates social inequality.