The author explains that a sociological approach to studying sports
A. produces knowledge that enables athletes to train more effectively.
B. will grow if it produces knowledge that is useful to many people.
C. is useless when it is critical and idealistic.
D. is useful because it proves that sport has essential and unchanging qualities.
Answer: B
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Native American adolescents have been well documented in having all of the following problems but:
a) drug use. b) identity difficulties. c) bipolar depression. d) sexual risk-taking.
Which of these statements about class consciousness in the United States is false?
A. Americans do not tend to be very conscious of social class. B. In the United States, the importance placed on individualism diminishes the existence of class consciousness. C. There is widespread belief that everyone has access to the same types of material comforts. D. There is more class consciousness in the United States than in most European countries.
Why do the authors of the text emphasize a system-blame approach?
What will be an ideal response?
__________ asserts that the functionalist theory, conflict theory, and symbolic interaction theory have proven inadequate in analyzing societies in a post industrial world.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).