After the verdict is read exonerating two police officers accused of racial profiling and beating a young African American man to death, people crowd the streets and begin to riot. This is an example of:

a. collective behavior.
b. a social movement.
c. an aggregate.
d. a convergence crowd.


a

Sociology

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a. true b. false

Sociology

Staudinger argues that openness to experience is highly correlated with ego development, wisdom, and emotional complexity and that all of these characteristics ____________ in people as they age.

A. increase B. remain the same C. may show decline D. become increasingly difficult to measure

Sociology

In order for a male to be produced, the primitive gonad must develop into:

a. chromosomes. b. testes. c. testosterone. d. hormones.

Sociology

Large families are no longer economically necessary, nor are they commonly endorsed by social norms, but certain religious faiths continue to extol large families and to disapprove of using contraception to limit family size. This example illustrates

A. culture lag. B. cultural relativity. C. cultural resistance. D. cultural integration.

Sociology