Leaders of a national government channel their power into laws in an attempt to control the behavior of citizens. The leaders are engaging in ______.
A. rules of conduct
B. physical force
C. symbolic control
D. internal conduct
Answer: A
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Margaret is a university professor and required to teach courses and conduct research. She is contacted by an agency that wants to meet with her about a research project, but the administrators at the agency can only meet at the time that she teaches one of her courses. Margaret is trying to decide what to do. She is experiencing role:
a. conflict. b. exit. c. distancing. d. strain.
Persuasion is a strategy typical of which approach to power?
A. direct conflict B. empowerment C. deception D. domination
A sociologist wants to measure the current infant mortality rate in Niger. Accordingly, the sociologist:
a. interviews women who have lost infants and women whose infants have survived b. measures changes in infant death rates over time and estimates the current year c. starts by collecting data on crude death rates d. searches for available data that records the number of babies per thousand of population who die before reaching one year of age