Émile Durkheim (1897) conducted an early study on the subject of suicide, documenting how social structure affects human behavior. What did he find?
a. Suicide was not a completely random event and that there were several important patterns.
b. Counseling can help those who suffer from depression.
c. Personal reasons such as job loss or the ending of a relationship were the best predictors of suicide.
d. Catholics were more likely to commit suicide than were Protestants.
a
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A) You set it up to test what you predict will happen B) You set it up to test the opposite of what you predict will happen C) You set up two problems, one to test what you predict and the other to test the opposite D) You set up a test that assumes the two populations are different, regardless of whether that is what you predict or not
Nations with industrializing economies, particularly in urban areas, and with moderate levels of national and personal income, are referred to as:
a. relative-income countries. b. farming countries. c. middle-income countries. d. negligent countries.
Karl Marx used the term proletariat to refer to the
A. capitalist class. B. owners of the means of production. C. working class. D. middle class.
In “comeback cities” such as Cleveland and Detroit, overall employment has increased at the same time there has been a marked decrease in
a. professional employment b. service-sector employment c. manufacturing employment d. commercial development