Adherents of cultural explanations for poverty propose that the deviant cultural pattern is transmitted from higher status groups to lesser status groups
a. true
b. false
b
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In the United States, family violence is
a. considered a private, family matter. b. a serious, often criminal problem. c. no longer considered a serious issue the way it was in past decades. d. mostly harmful to men.
The evolutionary theory of sociologist Talcott Parsons can be considered a(n)________ theory
a. idealist b. materialist c. generalist d. adaptive
According to Sanderson and Alderson, dependency and world-system theories do a fairly good job of explaining global patterns of unequal economic development over the past few centuries,
but they are less effective in accounting for the development prospects of less-developed countries since the 1960s. Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Culture acts as a constraint, limiting human freedom because
a. much culture is habit, which members of a society repeat again and again. b. humans cannot create new culture for themselves. c. culture always discourages change. d. culture forces us to make choices.