In his study of New England's Puritans, Kai Erikson concluded that
a. people everywhere define mostly the same things as deviant.
b. very religious people create very little deviance.
c. even this disciplined and highly religious group created deviance to clarify the moral boundaries of their community.
d. the proportion of people in the population that the Puritans defined as deviant kept rising over time.
c
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A) competing for relative advantage with other minorities and poor Whites B) being more likely than the rest of the population to own businesses C) being widely dispersed across the population D) generally having better paying jobs than other people.
Economist Thomas Malthus stated that the control of the existing population might be averted by either positive or preventive checks on population. Preventive checks are mortality risks such as famine, disease, and war, compared with positive checks, which include limits on fertility. For Malthus, the only acceptable positive check was moral restraint
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following statements is(are) FALSE about coding?
a. Codes should be mutually exclusive. b. It's a good idea to code data in more detail than you plan to use. c. Code categories can always be collapsed for more detail. d. Code categories should be exhaustive. e. Codes should be clearly defined and understandable.
In a ______ distribution, the mean, median, and mode are equal to one another.
a. normal distribution b. Z-score distribution c. skewed distribution d. negatively skewed distribution