______ was the first person on record to suggest a systematic approach to explain to social world.
A. Plato
B. Comte
C. Khaldun
D. Mills
Answer: C
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Which of these illustrates the concept that age is a social construction?
A) Depending on the norms of their society, 60-year-olds may be doddering and decrepit or in the robust prime of life. B) The life expectancy of different societies varies widely, from about 30 to 85 years. C) Human infants are incapable of providing for themselves, and depend on others to survive. D) The passing of years determines the characteristics of age.
The sorting of students into different programs on the basis of perceived abilities is __________
a. social placement b. tracking c. manifest function d. latent function
________ and ________ both argued that the shift to a capitalist economy widened the gap between the power and value of men and women
As production moved out of the home, the gendered division of labor left men with the greater share of economic and other forms of power. a. Marx / Weber b. Durkheim / Engels c. Marx / Engels d. Weber / Durkheim
According to Howard Becker, the idea of "commitment" refers to:
a. adherence to and dependence on the norms of a given social institution b. how people cope with being stigmatized c. the amount of power that agencies of social control have in creating deviant labels d. the rate at which people who are labeled as deviant are institutionalized