Who was the English economist who saw the surging growth of the world population as a sign of global doom?
A) Pitirim Sorokin
B) Thomas Malthus
C) Talcott Parsons
D) Charles Goring
B
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A purpose of science, according to your author, is to
a. change reality. b. prove the causes of human social behavior. c. explain events. d. elaborate on personal biases.
Do sex education classes and free clinics that offer counseling for teenagers reduce the number of pregnancies among teenagers? The appropriate test of this hypothesis would be
a. a one-tailed test. b. a two-tailed test. c. cross-sectional. d. participant observation.
Unlike the chi square test of independence, in the chi square goodness of fit test, the expected frequencies are
a. not used. b. computed. c. determined from the null hypothesis. d. the same as the observed frequencies.
According to sociologist G. William Domhoff, the ruling class influences the political process in all of the following ways EXCEPT that they:
a. affect the candidate selection process by helping to finance campaigns b. refuse to participate in the special interest process c. provide favors to political candidates d. gain access to the policy-making process through appointments to highly-select governmental committees and other governmental positions