A person needing to have his or her car repaired can go to a muffler store, a transmission shop, a tire retailer, or a gas station for a tune-up. Talcott Parsons refers to this type of specialization as
A. adaptive upgrading.
B. differentiation.
C. inclusion.
D. exclusion.
Answer: A
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a. children ages 0-5 relative to children between 6 and 17. b. 6- to 12-year olds relative to younger and older children. c. children ages 0-17 relative to the adult population. d. 15- to 29-year-olds relative to the remaining adult population.
Which of Giddens’s major concepts sits dead-center within the authors’ figure of theoretical orientation pertaining to order and action?
a. practical consciousness b. agency c. duality of structure d. resources
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A. the amount of effort one puts into studying. B. the profession one chooses C. the social class one was born into. D. one’s native intelligence.