____ states that power tends to become concentrated in the hands of a few members of any social structure
a. Parkinson's law
b. The law of demographic transition
c. Organizational environment theory
d. The Peter Principle
e. The iron law of oligarchy
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______ is the tendency to see only what one expects to see.
A. Intentional perception B. Selective perception C. Ethnocentric perception D. Modern perception
Which sociologist defined sociology as the scientific study of institutions?
a. Karl Marx b. Max Weber c. Emile Durkheim d. Jane Adams
A false association between two variables that is actually due to the effect of a third variable is called a ______.
A. self-fulfilling prophecy B. placebo effect C. spurious relationship D. false assumption
Talcott Parsons's claim that the nuclear family was necessary to modern industrial society because it fulfilled society's need for productive workers (men) and child rearers (women) is an example of a functionalist approach to sociology. The main problem with this idea is that the
a.) function of fulfilling a need for productive workers is not exclusively that of a single institution. b.) function of fulfilling a need for productive workers is a matter of gender and not of family. c.) problem of how to fulfill the need for productive workers is more clearly understood as a symbolic process. d.) entire idea of a productive worker in modern society is a fallacy.