A friend of yours is trying to develop an index to reproduce respondents' patterns of responses. You tell your friend to:

a. construct a Guttman scale

b. construct a Likert scale.
c. construct a Thurstone scale.
d. construct any one of the above.
e. it cannot be done.


e

Sociology

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General Electric is described as an example of a corporation that

a. has adopted a democratic internal organization. b. has enormous power in many areas of American life: economic, military, political, and cultural. c. is extremely profitable, nonpolitical, and responsible to community social issues. d. self-consciously keeps its business focused on one area of the economy, and in so doing, responsibly allows other businesses to have opportunities in other areas of the economy.

Sociology

Wallerstein calls the poorer societies

a. core b. semi-core c. peripheral d. groundless

Sociology

Mary is a 34-year-old successful corporate lawyer and is due for promotion, but her firm keeps passing her up because she is planning to start a family. This treatment of Mary by the firm is an example of ________

a. androgyny b. an occupational segregation c. a mommy track d. ageism

Sociology

A(n) _____ group is a larger, more specialized group in which members engage in more- impersonal, goal-oriented relationships for a limited period of time

a. informal b. primary c. secondary d. acting

Sociology