For ______ the key to understanding society was social inequality
a. Karl Marx
b. Max Weber
c. Emile Durkheim
d. George Herbert Mead
a
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How do symbolic interactions interpret nonverbal communication patterns?
a. Men's interruption of women indicates the right of a superior to interrupt a subordinate. b. Nonverbal behavior enhances interpersonal intimacy and friendship. c. Superiors practice impression management through type of eye contact. d. Nonverbal communication serves to bind people to their culture, and maintain the social equilibrium.
The communication predicament model refers to
A. the need for older adults to be spoken to as if they were young children. B. older adults' increased tip¬of¬the¬tongue phenomenon. C. patronizing speech that can lead to cognitive deficits in older adults. D. secondary baby talk.
In the context of social structural factors, which of the following statements is true about children from low-income backgrounds?
A. If they attend good schools and receive equal treatment from teachers, they can have educational opportunity equal to that of others. B. As they progress through school, their academic problems become less rather than more serious. C. They enter a lower-quality school with less well-prepared and less-experienced teachers than children from high-income backgrounds. D. They have a greater need for acceptance and warmth and are more likely to receive it than are middle-class children.
Which theory proposes that we become deviant when exposed to a higher level of deviant people and influences, compared with conventional influences?
a. labeling theory b. differential association theory c. strain theory d. control theory