Which theorist proposed that the function of society is to control individual actions?

A. Karl Marx
B. Emile Durkheim
C. C. Wright Mills
D. George Herbert Mead


Answer: B

Sociology

You might also like to view...

A setting where a staff tries to radically change someone's personality through carefully controlling the environment is called a(n)

a. anticipatory social center b. cohort community c. total institution d. degradation ceremony

Sociology

Name three cultural forces affecting and shaping divorce trends

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

Most children who are sold on the black market are foreign born

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology

Max Weber analyzed the connections between a. the economic, social, and political dimensions of stratification

b. class, race, and gender as the basis for social stratification. c. cooperation, competition, and conflict as social processes effecting social mobility. d. ability, ambition, and sponsorship as factors impacting on social mobility.

Sociology