The author uses the term "social world" to refer to a
A. set of media-generated images that shape how people think and act.
B. set of relationships that dominate a person's life.
C. special place that people go to enjoy relationships with other people.
D. way of life and mindset that people develop in a particular setting.
Answer: D
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Which of the following is TRUE of multiple births?
A. Women have had as many as ten babies at a time. B. Twins are generally normal sized, but pregnancies with three or more babies generally result in small babies. C. Children from multiple births are more likely to have health problems. D. All of the above are true of multiple births.
__________ pay special attention to the social context of health care and give special emphasis to the ways in which health, disease, and illness are defined and experienced
a. Demographers b. Environmental sociologists c. Ethnomethodologists d. Medical sociologists
A potential danger of applying __________ is that taken to its extreme it may be used to justify practices that violate human rights.?
a) positive ethnocentrism b) objectivism c) cultural relativism d) cultural diffusion
Trae frequently engages in recreational drug use and premaritial sex. These behaviors are best catergorized by what type of deviance?
a) Lower-consensus deviance as studied most frequently by constructionist sociologists b) Lower-consensus deviance as studied most frequently by positivist sociologists c) Higher-consensus deviance as studied most frequently by constructionist sociologists d) Higher-consensus deviance as studied most frequently by positivist sociologists