Sociologists use the term ______ to refer to the organized pattern of social relationships and social institutions that together comprise society
a. cultural complex
b. social structure
c. infrastructure
d. social network
b
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The number of teenagers engaging in sexual intercourse has been decreasing since the 1980s
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Brazil developed an ideology of ______.
A. ethnic changing B. ethnic cleansing C. racial whitening D. racial darkening
What term refers to weakening social norms around marriage?
A. endogamy B. cohabiting C. individualized D. deinstitutionalization
It is often the case that our attempts to change society actually end up producing the opposite effects. Why is this, according to Crozier?
a. The people who make change--once they are successful--become selfish partners of the powerful. b. Leaders of change do not really desire change for the good of society but for the good of themselves. c. A law of society is that efforts to make change bring anger on the part of the powerful. d. Sociology is so complicated that it is really impossible for most of us to understand what our efforts will eventually bring.