Emile Durkheim provided the rationale for sociology by emphasizing social facts, which are

a. individual experiences.
b. social factors external to the individual.
c. belief systems that bind people together.
d. shared traditions that conflict with individual beliefs.


Answer: b. social factors external to the individual

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a. of Poland, Germany, and Austriaalone were invited to immigrate to the United States by the government b. desiring to immigrate were turned back by government officials in the United States and elsewhere c. escaping aboard the liner St. Louis weremassacred on arrival in Cuba d. organized systematic persecution and annihilation of European Gentiles

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________ are most likely to see the solution to social problems as solving differences through negotiation or mediation and finding win-win answers

a. Non-Marxist conflict theorists b. Marxist conflict theorists c. Symbolic interactionists d. Structural functionalists

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Factors that may increase the culpability of an offender are called _____ ______

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Which of the following is the science of population size, distribution, and composition?

A. ethnography B. geography C. demography D. anthropology

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