__________, one of the first sociologists to emphasize that religion is essential to the maintenance of society, suggested that religion is a cultural universal found in all societies because it meets basic human needs and serves important societal functions
a. Emile Durkheim
b. Max Weber
c. Talcott Parsons
d. Robert Merton
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Ethnomethodological "breaching experiments" involved:
A. Breaking a rule in a corporation in order to observe organizational responses to deviance. B. Breaking a law and observing police response. C. Breaking an unspoken rule for deciphering the meaning of what others say. D. Deliberately breaking the rules of research ethics to publically demonstrate the unintended consequences of scientific inquiry that is not ethically normative. E. Encouraging African American students to sit at lunch counters in dime-stores in the pre-civil-rights south of the United States in order to make the public more aware of segregation.
According to Ecological Theory, the research model that examines the impact of both normative and nonnormative life transitions on family processes and child development over time is termed
A. exosystem. B. macrosystem. C. mesosystem. D. chronosystem.
"Treatments" to cure sexual orientation are called a. LGBT therapy
b. sexual orientation change efforts. c. reorientation plans. d. strategies to enhance heterosexuality.
“Core, peripheral, and semi-peripheral” are country-classifications based on which of the following approaches?
A. World Bank B. World Systems C. Cold War D. Imperialist