A husband, his wife, and their two-year-old son are traveling by plane. The husband is holding his screaming son. A male passenger turns around and remarks, "Why doesn't the mother take care of the baby?" The passenger is conveying his belief that women do the work
a. reproductive
b. productive
c. life chance
d. fertility
a
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Which theory would you be using if you studied how social problems arise when rapid change overwhelms society's institutions?
A. social-conflict theory B. social disorganization theory C. symbolic-interaction theory D. social Darwinist theory
Which of the following explains why it is difficult to control cyber-crime?
a. Most cyber-criminals are middle-aged White men with college educations who are likely to go unnoticed by authorities. b. Cyber-criminals can commit crimes on people in various parts of the world with little risk of being caught, extradited, and convicted. c. American culture does not deem cyber-crime to be as serious a threat as other types of crime. d. The people involved are consenting adults and the criminal act has no victim and causes no evident harm.
Compare Durkheim's thoughts on anomie with Merton's.
What will be an ideal response?
Social control carried out casually by people through such means as laughter, smiles, and ridicule, is known as
A. neutralization. B. conformity. C. formal social control. D. informal social control.