Copernicus upset the accepted paradigm of the day which held that the earth, not the sun, was the center of the universe. His "discovery" caused converts to wonder how they could possibly have taken the old paradigm seriously. This mind-altering view qualifies as a
a. a scientific revolution.
b. an anomaly.
c. a reformist movement.
d. a paradigm.
a
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Within world systems theory, the term for the network of production and labor processes by which a product becomes a finished commodity is ______
a. commodity chain b. manufacturing model c. division of labor d. product development route
________ refers to the same wages for different types of work that are judged to be comparable by such measures as employee knowledge, skills, effort, responsibility, and working conditions
a. Occupational integration b. Pay equity c. Occupational assimilation d. Equal opportunity
A restaurant closes down after a factory nearby closes. Now the 20 employees who served factory workers are added to the ranks of the unemployed. From a sociological point of view their "failures" are
a. unearned. b. troubles. c. achieved. d. inexplicable.
You are in a group of six people. As you start to count up the number of possible relationships between the different people in the group, you realize the maximum number is __________.
a. three b. six c. nine d. fifteen