What are the tenets of Conflict Theory?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Has roots in Marxism; counteracts Structural/Functionalism; focus on neg aspects of society. Holds that society is held together by coercion (ex: military/police/courts)
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Crimes committed by respectable citizens in the course of their work are called _______
A. crimes of business B. petty offenses C. white-collar crimes D. crimes of the upper class
To what primary and secondary groups do you belong? How does your involvement (or lack thereof) in primary groups on your campus impact your feelings of attachment to your school?
What will be an ideal response?
Giddens believes that globalization is
a. a real revolution in the economic world, but has not yet affected other aspects of life. b. a real revolution throughout people's lives, from economic, to political and cultural. c. a real revolution for some people, but for the masses of the world it has not changed very much. d. not a revolution at all, but simply a gradual continuous development that goes back to the 19th century.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Both Martineau and Gilman wrote to popular audiences. 2. Similar to Marx, Charlotte Perkins Gilman explained almost all aspects of both historic and contemporary society in terms of a “master class” dominating others 3. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s sexuo-economic arrangement provided barrier for a meaningful construction of the self via labor for women, not men. 4. Like Engels, Charlotte Perkins Gilman used societal evolution to show how patriarchy came about, thereby indirectly highlighting how men’s domination of women is not “natural.” 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed people have an innate, even instinctual need for social recognition, especially men who cannot bear children.