Consider news coverage of a current social problem. Can you identify the claims makers? Do reports feature various claims makers and multiple definitions of the problem or potential solutions? If so, how do you assess their competing interpretations?

What will be an ideal response?


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Actions that have positive consequences for the social system

What will be an ideal response?

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Poverty rates are highest for:

a. adolescents in urban areas. b. homeless in urban areas. c. children in rural areas. d. adult in rural areas.

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________ is the term used by sociologist George Ritzer to describe the increasing bureaucratization of social life

a. McDonaldization b. Conflict c. Functionalism d. Symbolic interactionism

Sociology

Theorizing that terrorists have a certain personality profile is an example of which view of deviance?

a. biological view b. sociological view c. psychological view d. evolutionary view

Sociology