How does interactionism allow sociologists to understand the individual?

a. by providing guidelines for how best to examine the more private aspects of the individual
b. by focusing on how the individual's personality, preferences, ideas, etc., are constructed and shaped by and through communication with other individuals, groups, and institutions
c. by showing how individuals impact the social world through day-to-day events
d. by preventing sociologists from straying too far from the individual in their studies


b

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a.) Co-Morbidity b.) Learned Helplessness c.) High Expressed Emotion d.) Depersonalization

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A prisoner would consider a maximum-security prison

a. a normative organization. b. a coercive organization. c. a utilitarian organization. d. a voluntary organization.

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Sociological imagination allows one to shift examination from the individual circumstances to the general social trends

a. true b. false

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A primary factor in children's short-term and long-term adjustment to divorce is:

a) the sex of the child.
b) how effectively the custodial parent functions as a
 parent.
c) whether the custodial parent remarries.
d) the sex of the parent the child lives with.
e) how happy the custodial parent is.

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