Max Weber described several different kinds of authority. In ______________ authority the exercise of power is accepted as legitimate because the laws or rules allow it.
A.) traditional
B.) rational-legal
C.) charismatic
D.) totalitarian
Answer: B.) rational-legal
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of these is NOT a component of residential segregation according to the conflict perspective?
A. distinctly different neighborhoods based on racial/ethnic groups within a geographic area B. different employment opportunities within a geographic area C. housing market discrimination D. accidental discrimination based on haphazard planning within a geographic area
The process of learning beliefs and values associated with a new way of life is termed:
a. resocialization. b. anticipatory socialization. c. advanced socialization. d. neo-socialization.
Which of the following is true?
a. According to Radcliffe?Brown, religion provides individuals with a sense of comfort and anxiety relief. b. What a person believes about dying has more influence than how deeply he or she believes it. c. George Homans disagreed with both Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown, arguing that death anxiety is highest for both the very religious and the nonbeliever. d. The empirical research by Michael Leming supported Homans’s theorizing on the relationship between religion and death anxiety. e. All of the above.