Communal societies are relatively simple and depend on a few social units to accomplish many different tasks, a concept that Talcott Parsons referred to as __________
a. cultural relativism
b. culture shock
c. social evolution
d. differentiation
Answer: D
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Alfred Kinsey's 1940s and 1950s research on sex
a. was condemned by the U.S. federal government. b. showed that many people in our society were less conventional about sex than had been popularly believed. c. was based on a carefully selected and representative sample of people. d. was all but ignored by the mass media.
Which one of the following is the BEST example of the ecological fallacy?
a. Catherina studied the ecology of social interaction in her dorm, but focused only on individuals. b. Felisha studied Census tracts for her study on crime, but then wrote up her conclusions in terms of individuals. c. Sean did not actually study the same individuals in his longitudinal study of worker alienation, but called his study a panel study. d. Jack mistakenly called his unit of analysis organizations, but it was really social artifacts in his study of humor. e. Mary applied the reasons for why her cousin, Jane, failed her driving test to all persons who failed their driving tests.
______ attributes unequal economic distributions to the structural (especially technological) and cultural differences between countries.
A. World systems theory B. Global economic theory C. Modernization theory D. Neo-colonialism theory
Summarize the main points of Engels’s The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State. What weaknesses are present in this theory? What are the strengths of this theory (that you feel are still valid today)?
What will be an ideal response?