People use drugs for many reasons. Identify five reasons for using drugs and provide an example of each

What is an Ideal response?


• Therapeutic uses: Some drugs offer medical benefits such as controlling seizures, lessening depression, or reducing pain.
• Recreational uses: Alcoholic beverages including beer or wine with a meal can make people feel more relaxed and can even make foods taste better.
• Spiritual or psychological uses: Drugs can alter human consciousness, so that some people use them for psychological or spiritual reasons.
• Escape: Some drugs offer a form of escape from everyday life. People enduring serious trouble may turn to alcohol or other drugs to dull the pain of living.
• Social conformity: Drug use help people to conform and fit in socially. Peer pressure may lead young people to smoke cigarettes or older people to drink cocktails.

Sociology

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Some argue that ________ is on the wane in the United States as more and more people opt out of the electoral process; the rich vote, and the poor, near-poor, and working classes tend not to

a. class consciousness b. democracy c. political activism d. patriotism

Sociology

Simmel theorized that there is no significant difference between dyad groups and triad groups

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology

Gender structures social relationships between people unequally. This is a statement that would be supported by which group?

a.) feminists b.) capitalists c.) teachers d.) the general population

Sociology

Another approach to understanding social movements is the ______ approach, which focuses on how movements highlight certain facts and themes, while making other invisible to promote their cause.

A. functionalist B. symbolic C. linguistic D. framing

Sociology