According to Emile Durkheim, modern societies are held together by difference, a process he called "organic solidarity."

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.


Answer: True

Sociology

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Scientific medicine, with its microbiological (germ) theory of disease and specific drug cures, has attracted little attention from leading corporate executives

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology

Covert conflict:

a. is harmless in the negotiation process. b. creates a system of mutual dependency. c. makes it almost impossible to resolve a problem. d. leaves problems out in the open to be solved.

Sociology

A flat tax is an example of a(n) ______ tax.

A. progressive B. regressive C. distributive D. disruptive

Sociology

Corey just doesn’t care. He doesn’t care about his lousy, minimum wage job; he doesn’t care that he can barely survive; he doesn’t care about all of the expectations others have for them or the demands they put on him; and he doesn’t care that he was born (alone), he will live (alone), and he will die (alone) and none of it means a thing. Durkheim would suggest that Corey is living in a state of

A. dysfunction. B. culture conflict. C. anomie. D. egoism.

Sociology