______ is an action of a group of people to encourage or retard social change.

A. Mass behavior
B. Collective action
C. Communal movements
D. Mass media


Answer: B

Sociology

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ANSWER:

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Racism emerged as an ideology __________

A) after slavery began in the United States B) sometime in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries C) during the sectional rivalry in the early nineteenth century D) only in the twentieth century

Sociology

Harry Harlow's research with rhesus monkeys and "artificial mothers" revealed that

A. the monkeys were as likely to become attached to the artificial mother that provided food as the artificial mother that provided comfort. B. monkeys developed greater social attachments based on their need for intimacy than on their need for food. C. monkeys developed greater social attachments based on their need for food than on their need for intimacy. D. monkeys rejected "artificial mothers" entirely.

Sociology

The theoretical perspective(s) that suggests that social patterns they exist because of the useful functions they serve is called:

A.) functionalism B.) conflict perspective C.) both functionalism and the conflict perspective D.) symbolic interactionism

Sociology