Theorists who attribute some of the causes of deviant behavior to biology are employing ______ theories.
A. structural functionalist
B. constructionist
C. critical
D. explanatory
Answer: D
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a. at a younger age than at any other time in the past century. b. at an older age than at any other time in the past century. c. a return to the same older age at which women married a century ago after a temporary decline in mid-century. d. a return to the same younger age at which women married a century ago after a temporary increase in mid-century.
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A. The SAT is becoming an increasingly controversial issue in elementary schools. B. Incompletion of homework does not affect a student's test score. C. Test scores are valid and reliable measures of teacher effectiveness. D. A teacher's quality of undergraduate education affects test scores. E. Test scores are not affected by school funding.
In testing a new survey that he developed, Marcus asked his introduction to sociology class to fill out the survey for extra credit, and then a week later asked the same class to take the survey again. Marcus was testing the exam's
a. validity. b. face validity. c. conceptualization. d. precision. e. reliability.
What are the sociological theories of collective behavior? How do these approaches to collective behavior help us understand relatively spontaneous and unstructured situations?
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).