In relation to social interaction (the microlevel perspective), discuss sociologist Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodology approach
What will be an ideal response?
The following are suggested areas for students to address in the essay: Define "ethnomethodology"
Describe reactions when people engage in "breaching experiments"
Encourage students to include any personal experiences with ethnomethodology in their responses
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Because men own their wives, they cannot actually be found guilty of raping them
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Members of a counterculture a. share many elements of the dominant culture and exist within it
b. conform to most of the standards of the dominant culture. c. reject the dominant cultural values of a society. d. seek to redefine the dominant culture.
The number of deaths per 1,000 persons as among people ages 15 to 19 years of age is an example of ____
a. crude death rate b. infant mortality rate c. age-specific death rate d. morbidity rate e. life expectancy ratio
When sociologists speak of the self, they are talking about:
a. our ability to conform to society's norms and to take the roles that society makes available to them. b. the conforming part of the personality c. the instinctual part of the human personality d. the part of the personality that emerges only in adulthood