Sociologist Melvin Tumin argued against Davis and Moore. He said that:
a. money is irrelevant
b. few things affect people more than social class
c. a kindergarten teacher deserves to be paid less than a surgeon
d. we need baseball players more than soldiers
b
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Which of the following is a macrosocial factor in the decline of mortality rates in certain countries?
A. weaker norms regarding losing weight and stopping smoking B. obesity C. better public health D. drug addiction
Which of the following results because of the existence of the bamboo ceiling in the United States?
a. It causes people to blame African American parents for their children's failures. b. It results in the absence of cultural capital in Asian communities. c. It causes people to make negative judgments about Asian Americans. d. It makes people classify all immigrants as heathen and morally inferior.
Which of the following is characteristic of deception in close as opposed to less-intimate relationships?
A) Lies are more likely told to promote polite, friendly interaction. B) We are not highly likely to tell lies about serious matters to close partners. C) A partner's accuracy in detecting lies is especially good. D) All of the answers are correct.
Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau mails forms to every home in the United States to collect federally mandated data. Which of the following data collection methods is used by the Census Bureau?
A) ?Secondary analysis B) ?Field research C) ?Experiment D) ?Survey E) ?Evaluation research