Is killing another person a deviant act?
a. It depends on the social context.
b. Yes, always.
c. No, never.
d. Societies do not regulate this beh
a. It depends on the social context.
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According to the functionalist perspective, deviance is universal because it serves all of the following important functions EXCEPT:
a. clarifying rules. b. preventing social chaos c. promoting social change. d. uniting a group.
Four conditions must exist in a society for significant numbers of people to withdraw from the labor force. Which is NOT one of these four conditions?
A. A society must have an economic surplus that is large enough to support its non-employed members. B. There must be a mechanism in place to divert part of a surplus to nonemployed members. C. Nonemployed member should be viewed positively by the rest of society and their activities or leisure seen as legitimate. D. The nonemployed members must have worked less than other members of society so that their labor will not be missed.
Who wrote, “Knowledge is shaped by the social world?”
a. Alexis de Tocqueville b. Herbert Spencer c. Karl Mannheim d. George Hebert Mead
A person needing to have his or her car repaired can go to a muffler store, a transmission shop, a tire retailer, or a gas station for a tune-up. Talcott Parsons refers to this type of specialization as
A. exclusion. B. differentiation. C. adaptive upgrading. D. inclusion.