Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Merton’s work is far less abstract than Parsons’s, but it is no less theoretically multidimensional.
2. Overall, structural functionalism tends to emphasize the collective/nonrational realm.
3. Ressentiment was introduced in a special technical sense, by Max Scheler.
4. The ritualistic type of retreatism cannot be readily identified. It involves the abandoning or scaling down of the lofty cultural goals of great pecuniary success and rapid social mobility to the point where one’s aspirations can be satisfied.
5. To the extent that a society is stable, adaptation type I—conformity to both cultural goals and
institutionalized means—is the most common and widely diffused. Were this not so, the stability and continuity of the society could not be maintained.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. True
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