Auguste Comte was a positivist who believed that there were laws of society in the same way that there are laws of physics that describe the operation of the natural world
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer: True
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Alan, a 14 year old boy, finds himself in a situation where he can steal a digital watch from K-Mart. He decides against the theft because he fears what others would think of him if they found out. In this situation, Alan conforms to society's values because of:
a. formal social controls. b. informal social controls. c. aversive social controls. d. internalization.
The most effective way to reduce long-term poverty is to increase:
a. education. b. taxes. c. tolerance. d. divorce.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. George Ritzer is more concerned with the dialectical relationships between his four levels of social analysis rather that the levels themselves. 2. C. Wright Mills uses George Ritzer’s ideas about micro-level personal troubles and macro-level public issues to analyze credit cards. 3. There is a dialectical relationship between personal troubles and public issues because each exacerbates the other. 4.Although the terminology is slightly different, there are few if any differences between the integrative models offered by Jeffrey Alexander and George Ritzer. 5. Randall Collins reduced the importance of the macro in his radical microsociology.
Nonmetropolitan areas are considered to be __________ and encompass 80 percent of the nation’s land area
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).