Which sociological perspective asserts that during periods of economic crisis, the state expands welfare rolls to pacify the poor and reduce the likelihood of serious uprising?
A. feminist
B. interactionist
C. functionalist
D. conflict
Answer: D
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In low-income nations, most education is a matter of
a. formal schooling and then college. b. what parents and other community members teach their children. c. what children can teach themselves. d. teaching by religious leaders.
Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding negative case testing?
a. It can be used as a technique for qualitative hypothesis testing. b. It begins with an examination of the data to find a general hypothesis. c. It requires you to search your data to find all the cases that contradict your initial hypothesis. d. It requires you to reexamine all the cases that led you to form the initial hypothesis. e. All of these choices are TRUE.
Which of the following characterizes Thorstein Veblen’s leisure class? Select all, but only those that apply.
a. productive emulation b. conspicuous consumption c. conspicuous leisure d. waste
A sociologist argues that the capitalist ruling class is willing to tolerate high rates of illegal immigration because these immigrants serve as a pool of cheap labor. This sociologist is most likely to draw upon ________.
A. the anomie theory of deviance B. the contact hypothesis C. labeling theory D. exploitation theory