Sociologist Daniel Bell uses which of the following terms to refer to a society whose economic system is engaged primarily in the processing and control of information?
a. Postmodern
b. Horticultural
c. Industrial
d. Postindustrial
Ans: d. Postindustrial
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b. procreation c. orientation. d. reproduction.
Sociologists __________ suggested that, for deviance to occur, people must have access to illegitimate opportunity structures—circumstances that provide an opportunity for people to acquire through illegitimate activities what they cannot achieve through legitimate channels
a. Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales b. Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin c. Carl Taylor and Anne Campbell d. Herbert Spencer and Auguste Comte
George Herbert Mead considered the self to be _______
a. the part of an individual's personality that is composed of self-awareness and self-image. b. the presence of culture within the individual. c. basic drives that are self-centered. d. present in infants at the time of their birth.
According to a Pew Research Center study, the highest proportion of Americans are bothered by __________
A) the idea that some poor people do not pay their fair share of taxes B) the feeling that some wealthy people do not pay their fair share of taxes C) the amount that they personally are asked to pay in taxes D) the idea that middle class people do not pay their fair share of taxes