When Napster first enabled users to exchange music files on the Internet, recording companies cried "foul" even though there were no laws to limit such exchanges. This gap between social norms (no law) and technology (access to computers) provides an illustration of what William Ogburn called __________.
a. cultural lag
b. cultural adaptation
c. cultural response
d. cultural leveling
Answer: a. cultural lag
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a. the family b. the school c. the church d. the first club joined by a youth
Judy and Mark went on a first date. Because it was their first date, there was not an emotional attachment between them. Mark paid for dinner, a movie, and drinks at a bar during the evening. When they left the bar, Mark made it clear to Judy that he expected sex because he paid for everything. Judy complied with Mark's request. Have Judy and Mark engaged in prostitution? Explain why or why not.
What will be an ideal response?
Faced with data that do not support an assumption of independence between two variables in a population, a researcher should
a. immediately rejects the assumption of independence. b. attribute this discrepancy to an unrepresentative sample or reject the assumption of independence. c. retest the data in order to confirm these initial findings. d. immediately assume that the sample was unrepresentative of the population. e. ignore the findings as incorrect and start again.
The Elephant Man was based on a true story
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false