Which perspective suggests that men may originally have become powerful in preindustrial times because their size, physical strength, and freedom from childbearing duties allowed them to dominate women physically, but in contemporary societies such considerations are not so important?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. global perspective
B. conflict perspective
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? Which of the following causes 7 billion gallons of water to be wasted every day in the United States?
A. Residential wastage B. Industry mishaps C. Chemical spills D. Water pipe bursts E. Excessive recycling
Which of the following statements about the relationship between economic conditions and suicide is TRUE?
a) Suicide rates are higher in affluent societies than in poor ones. b) Suicide rates are about the same from society to society, regardless of affluence or poverty. c) African Americans, whose poverty rate is relatively higher, are more likely to kill themselves than are whites, who have a lower poverty rate. d) Blacks and whites have about the same rate of suicide.
In relation to stability and change in societies, describe sociologist Emile Durkheim's mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity approach
What will be an ideal response?
In the United States, schoolchildren are taught not to speak until the teacher calls on them and to regulate their activities according to clocks or bells. This learning experience illustrates
A. credentialism. B. the correspondence principle. C. the hidden curriculum. D. the teacher-expectancy effect.