Sociologist William Julius Wilson argues that race is declining in significance as which of the following becomes more important?
a. class
b. religion
c. age
d. sex
Answer: a. class
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A. functionalist perspective B. conflict perspective C. interactionist perspective D. labeling theory
Explain the paper bag test.
What will be an ideal response?
What is the practice of suttee?
A) permitting only men the right to vote B) requiring women to cover their faces in public C) passing legislation that legally makes women inferior to men D) burning the living widow with the body of her dead husband
What question would a sociologist studying culture using the sociobiology approach most likely ask?
a. How do our cultural patterns reflect the biological evolution of our species? b. How do social patterns help societies operate? c. What social patterns support inequality? d. What cultural patterns are universal?