Which sociologist defined technology as "cultural information about the ways in which the material resources of the environment may be used to satisfy human needs and desires"?
A. Seymour Martin Lipset
B. Robin Williams
C. George Murdock
D. Gerhard Lenski
D. Gerhard Lenski
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The most common contemporary technology for worker control is________
a. lie detectors b. drug tests c. telephone taps d. the computer
Authoritarian leaders focus on the instrumental tasks of the group and demand compliance from others
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
As part of their preparation to get married Anne and Daniel discussed with a lawyer how they want to be treated at the end of their lives. Legal documents like these are __________
a. called advance directives b. legally required for all newly married couples c. commonly held by Americans d. required for insurance coverage of end-of-life care
World systems analysis is
A. Karl Marx's view that the bourgeois nations such as England would dominate the proletarian nations such as India. B. Erving Goffman's view that world peace would result from many types of nations interacting with one another. C. Talcott Parsons's view that the inequality that exists among nations is necessary for world stability. D. Immanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.