Professor Leone used the Statistics Digest of the United States data set to examine the trend in U.S. infant mortality over the last 25 years. The professor is, however, unsure how U.S. infant mortality was measured as this phenomenon has changed over time. This is an issue of ______.
a. ecological fallacy
b. reliability
c. validity
d. measurement error
Ans: C
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People do not voluntarily become members of __________ organizations
a. utilitarian b. normative c. totalitarian d. coercive
According to the text, which of these is not a characteristic of most industrial societies as they exist today?
A. Use of machines to produce goods and services B. Increased death rates and a lowered life expectancy C. Highly differentiated labor force D. Social cohesion achieved through structures of social institutions
Distinguish between differentiation and dedifferentiation, as outlined by early and contemporary functionalist theorists. Illustrate them with examples.
What will be an ideal response?
New religious groups have grown as
a. a reaction against an alienating modern society. b. an assault upon complexity. c. a reaction to Protestant future-oriented instrumentalism. d. all of the above.