According to sociologist Everett Hughes, "One can think so exclusively in terms of his or her own social world that he or she has no set of concepts for comparing one social world to the next.". Hughes is describing
a. cultural genocide. c. institutional completeness.
b. a kind of ethnocentrism. d. a state of cultural relativity.
B
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Discuss the social purposes of eye contact.
What will be an ideal response?
Marx predicted that under socialism:
a. workers would continue to be exploited. b. private property would be limited to a select few. c. workers would control the means of production. d. as owners, workers would become more like dictators over the people. e. workers would be unsure of authority and more prone to violence.
Malthus's concept of positive checks to population growth would conform most closely to what we call
a. causes of mortality. b. drought and famine. c. methods of contraception. d. moral restraint.
Situations in which increasing the efficient use of a resource leads to an increase in the total use of that resource is referred to as __________
a. Jevons paradox b. the tragedy of the commons c. the treadmill of production d. fracking