Boase and his co-authors argue that e-mail supplements rather than replaces the communication people have with those who are very close to them—as well as those with whom they are not so close

a. true
b. false


a

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a. Across countries, greater ethnic heterogeneity is associated with lower social trust. b. In Pakistan, clan, religious, and political diversity are linked with failure of collective infrastructure maintenance. c. Across American census tracts, greater ethnic heterogeneity is associated with lower rates of car-pooling (a social practice that embodies trust and reciprocity). d. Within experimental game settings such as prisoners-dilemma or ultimatum games, players who are more different from one another (regardless of whether or not they actually know one another) are more likely to defect (or ‘cheat'). e. All of the above

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A sociologist decides to study how students go about their daily routines and how they learn what they are supposed to do. For example, how do students know to go to class when the bell rings and why do students call teachers by their last names? A sociologist from which of the following backgrounds would be interested in this study?

A. an ethnomethodologist B. a gender scholar C. a functionalist D. a conversational analyst

Sociology

Explain how the Industrial Revolution could still be occurring in some parts of the world

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology

A motivation that usually involves sexual contact between several family members and is motivated by an eroticization of family roles is called a(n):

Sociology