Describe how different theorists incorporate the nation-state into their characterization of modernity.
What will be an ideal response?
•?As part of the juggernaut of modernity, Anthony Giddens gives the nation-state precedence of the nation-state over society itself.
•?Zygmunt Bauman is weary of state bureaucracy because such made the Holocaust possible.
•?Habermas thinks welfare states could work toward completing the project of modernity if they would focus at the system level instead of being a sublevel itself.
•?Castells sees states as weakened and largely ineffective.
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a. an ethnocentric c. a cultural shock b. a cultural relative d. sociological
Kaufman's study of newly Orthodox Jewish women indicates that
A) these women value the family purity laws and other halakic prescriptions in part because such rituals give them control of their sexuality. B) most of these women identify themselves as feminists. C) the majority of these women regret their decision to convert to Orthodoxy because they find it far too repressive. D) these women tend to feel diminished in status relative to their Orthodox husbands.
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a. IBM b. new hunting and gathering c. Apple d. postindustrial
According to Mills, the institutional positions men and women occupy throughout their lifetimes determine the values they will hold. He called this __________.
A. the pyramid of power B. psychological similarity C. social interaction D. coinciding interests