Urban legends are also known as mass hysteria

Indicate whether the statement is true or false


False

Sociology

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What are the positive and negative impacts ecosabotage can have, not only on the ecosaboteurs and environment, but also on consumers who are uninvolved?

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

In 2011, when announcing the death of Osama Bin Laden, President Barack Obama said, "Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.". This message plays to the concept of

a. civil religion. b. cult. c. secularization. d. mystical religion.

Sociology

Which theory draws attention to the situation in which a person refrains from racist comments in public, but freely makes such comments with his or her friends and family?

A. minority majority B. dramaturgical C. affirmative action D. split market

Sociology

Which of the following situations is an example of deviance?

a. Elliot is an honor student at school. After he is caught using recreational drugs by his father, he stops going to school, loses many of his friends, begins to take drugs every day, and is hostile toward members of his family. b. Sanjay was arrested for child molestation and spent 10 years in prison. Now that he is free, he has found a job and straightened out his life. c. Carol is 15, and most of her friends have children. She wants a child of her own and begins having unprotected sex with her boyfriend. d. Jake sees his high school friends drinking at a party and joins in. Driving home, he crashes his car into a tree and vows never to drink again.

Sociology