Howard Becker said that sociology can be best understood as the study of people "doing things together." This definition reminds us that:

A. people must have some knowledge of each other before they can really do anything together.
B. neither society nor the individual exists in isolation; each is dependent on the other.
C. mass culture and large only large-scale interactions that involve many people can be understood by sociologists.
D. sociology is only interested in the way people act, not in the way they think.


Answer: B. neither society nor the individual exists in isolation; each is dependent on the other.

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