Sociologists Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales
maintained that the efficient functioning of a society, indeed its very survival, depends on satisfying both __________ and __________ needs.
A) functional; institutional
B) expressive; instrumental
C) instrumental; expressive
D) institutional; functional
Answer: C
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A) Gender tends to remain constant over time, with variation mostly related to types of clothing men and women wear. B) Gender definitions within a society are unlikely to have much variation, unlike two different societies when compared to each other. C) Gender varies over the life course; what it means to be a man or woman may be different at age 20 than at age 40 or age 70. D) Gender variation is limited to industrial societies, which have seen many changes in male and female roles.
Modern U.S. families no longer tell stories of hardship related to immigration because generally families are so long established in the U.S. these stories would have no bearing
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The credit for founding the discipline of sociology is given to:
a. Thomas Hobbes. b. Émile Durkheim. c. Auguste Comte. d. Herbert Spencer.
El Nino is a natural weather event and its intensity is heightened by ______.
a. manufactured risks b. the environment c. climate change d. weather