Policing is an example of __________.

A) social solidarity
B) social control
C) prosocial behavior
D) sympathetic knowledge


B) social control

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________ believed that positivism, which is the philosophy that knowledge should be based on systematic principles, experiments, and comparisons, could solve social problems

a. Karl Marx b. Emile Durkheim c. Auguste Comte d. Max Weber

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Define "community." A.Individual people.

A.Individual people. B. dissension, power, and exploitation in groups. C. physical relationships among central cities, suburbs, and edge cities. D. people bound either by geography or by webs of communication, sharing common ties, and interacting with one another.

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People are most likely to feel empathy towards members of their in-group, but not towards members of their out-group, even when groups are assigned arbitrarily.

a. true b. false

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What is a critique levied at ethnomethodology? Select all, but only those apply.

a. Ethnomethodology focuses on the trivial matters of daily life rather than more important and consequential things like social problems. b. In focusing on cognition and consciousness, ethnomethodology ignores the structure and organization of daily life. c. Ethnomethodologists have yet to link their tradition to micro-level sociology. d. Ethnomethodology is overly reliant on institutional study and thereby ignores conversation analysis.

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