Disciplines shift and cause changes in their boundaries due to
a. major advances in theory or research.
b. administrative turf wars.
c. negotiations with other disciplines.
d. nothing- academic disciplines focus on a fixed and stable subject matter
A
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Percent of the world's population that is urban:
A) ten B) forty-seven C) sixty D) seventy-five
Sociology may be intellectually liberating because it
a. deepens our understanding of our own behavior. b. keeps us from having to think for ourselves. c. replaces other ways of viewing human behavior. d. teaches us more about others than ourselves. e. has no respect for tradition.
Which theoretical perspective is represented by this statement: Health is vital to the stability of the society and therefore sickness is a sanctioned form of deviance?
a. Functionalism b. Conflict theory c. Symbolic interactionism d. Feminist theory
Before the Industrial Revolution society was largely __________
a. agrarian b. institutionalized c. mechanized d. polarized