When entering the library, you accidentally bump another student with your backpack. Realizing what has happened, you turn and say, “I’m sorry.” A sociologist would call your verbal response a(n) ______.
A. apologia
B. defense
C. aligning action
D. disclaimer
C. aligning action
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When Americans traveling abroad say that they really "find these people really awful," they are:
a. being ethnocentric. b. expressing cultural relativism. c. identifying with a counterculture. d. expressing a wish for more cultural variability.
All of the following are elements of Marx's portrait of modern society EXCEPT:
a. class conflict b. equilibrium c. exploitation d. domination
The belief that offenders need to be incarcerated to eliminate threat and prevent harm to the public is an example of which rationale for punishment?
A. neutralization B. elimination C. restoration D. protection
The US decennial census and other census surveys are, for social researchers:
a. highly unreliable because most people do not give census takers accurate information b. among the most important and widely used sources of data available to them c. an accurate count of numbers of people, but tell very little about social change d. are only useful historically, because the data are not made available to researchers until many years after they are collected